MEMS technology

MotionEngine Wear Debuts

Hillcrest already has an all-in-one chip containing 9-degrees of freedom microelectromechanical system (MEMS) sensors called the BNO070 (manufactured in cooperation with Bosch), including an on-chip ARM Cortex-M processor with specialized ...

2015-09-28 EE Times - MEMS technology

Smoothing the Flow of Valve Selection

There are also new developments in devices that employ microfluidics, which measure fluids in nano liters or even smaller quantities. But Herskovitz cautions that valves need to be of a certain size for best results. “Reducing the size of a fluid ...

2015-09-28 Medical Device and Diagnostics Industry - MEMS technology

MEMS Move to 300mm-Diameter Wafers

In addition to lowering costs, manufacturing MEMS with 300mm technology enables 3D integration using MEMS CMOS processes in more advanced nodes than on 200mm, and the use of 3D through-silicon-vias (TSV), which is already available in 300mm ...

yesterday EE Times - MEMS technology

MobiLab smartphone could help test for chlamydia in just 30 minutes

Using a microfluidics cartridge the unit can detect the DNA of chlamydia bacteria in genital swab samples. The DNA analysis in integrated with a smartphone, which enables the user to control the device to process the data. The results are then ...

yesterday Daily Mail - MEMS technology

Evolving ITSM to support agile IT and BYOD

The next step in the world of the IoT could be collecting and analysing data from “smart dust” – tiny microelectromechanical systems including sensors, robots and other devices used to detect light, temperature, vibration or chemicals. Other long-range ...

yesterday ComputerWeekly.com - MEMS technology

How a Microscopic Supercapacitor Will Supercharge Mobile Electronics

This single-step laser-writing method can produce devices at a fraction of the cost of conventional microfabrication techniques. In our lab we can now produce 100 of the devices on a disc in less than 30 minutes, and there is plenty of room for ...

2015-09-28 IEEE Spectrum - MEMS technology

3D Memory Chips May Beat 3D Hybrid Memory Cube

Tezzaron/Novati is practicing transistor-level 3D—what they call Di3D (Dis-Integrated 3D) and now considers itself an expert in the integration of heterogeneous chips by wafer bonding—without spacers between the dies as used my Microjn and Hynix.

today EE Times - MEMS technology

From Pyrex to processors - borosilicate glass breakthrough on MEMs laser de ...

These days Borofloat borosilicate glass from the Schott technology group is well recognised as a standard material for Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) processes such as anodic bonding, mainly because of its characteristics of very accurate ...

today Electropages (blog) - MEMS technology

MEMS business

Haptics 2016-2026: Technologies, Markets, Players

From more logical progressions such as the use of voice coils, or linear resonant actuators, into ceramic or newer polymeric piezoelectric options, right through to drastically different techniques using microfluidics, ultrasound, or electrostatics ...

today IDTechEx.com (press release) - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Measuring femtoscale displacement for photoacoustic spectroscopy

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The development of nanoscale devices and applications requires ultra-sensitive sensing systems that can offer not only atomic resolution imaging but also sub nanometer scale displacement detection, zeptogram level mass sensing, ...

today Nanowerk - Nanotechnology

New electrode gives micro-supercapacitor macro storage capacity

Their lower energy density, i.e. the amount of energy that they can store in a given volume or surface area, has meant that they were not able to power sensors or microelectronic components. Researchers in the Intégration de systèmes de gestion de l ...

today Nanowerk - Nanotechnology

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Event Calendar

Swiss ePrint 2015, 3rd edition 2015-10-01 - 2015-10-02 Neuchatel, Switzerland The Swiss Conference on Printed Electronics and Functional Materials
MicroTAS 2015 2015-10-25 - 2015-10-29 HICO, Gyeongju, Korea The 19th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences
MEMS Executive Congress US 2015 2015-11-04 - 2015-11-06 Napa, CA MEMS and Sensors: Enabling the Connection to the Physical World
Wearable Sensors and Electronics 2015 2015-11-16 - 2015-11-17 Santa Clara, CA. Bringing Together the Wearable Ecosystem
PowerMEMS 2015 2015-12-01 - 2015-12-04 Boston, MA The 15th International Conference on Micro and Nanotechnology Power Generation and Energy Conversion Applications
T-Sensors Summit 2015-12-09 - 2015-12-10 Celebration, FL Creating a TSensors-Based Abundant Future
SPIE Photonics West 2016 2016-02-13 - 2016-02-18 Moscone Center San Francisco, California, USA Photonics West, the #1 laser, photonics, biomedical optics conference
MEMS Technical Congress Europe 2016 2016-03-07 - 2016-03-08 Munich, Germany Delivering Technical Solutions, Together.
MEMS 2017 2017-01-22 - 2017-01-26 Las Vegas, Nevada The 30th Annual IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems