MEMS technology

Probe 'takes notes' as light excites neurons

Lee and colleagues developed a novel microfabrication method with Nurmikko to shape the material into a monolithic chip just a few millimeters square with sixteen micrometer sized pin-like “optoelectrodes,” each capable of both delivering light pulses ...

today Futurity: Research News - MEMS technology

Innovative optoelectronic implantable device helps access brain microcircuits

Joonhee Lee, with Assistant Research Professor Ilker Ozden and Professor Yoon-Kyu Song at Seoul National University in Korea, co-developed a novel microfabrication method with Nurmikko to shape the material into a monolithic chip just a few millimeters ...

yesterday News-Medical.net - MEMS technology

Reduced to the Essentials — Portable Imaging Gets High-Tech

Handheld OCT devices, such as those developed by Optovue Inc., Thorlabs Inc. and Bioptigen Inc. (the latter of which was recently acquired by Leica Microsystems GmbH and is referred to herein as Leica). These devices help ophthalmologists monitor ...

today Photonics.com - MEMS technology

Monaco: industrial femtosecond laser from Coherent

Monaco is especially useful for micromachining the inhomogeneous, composite substrates used in microelectronics fabrication. Monaco may also be configured to directly address ophthalmic applications, including LASIK flap cutting and cataract procedures.

2015-10-12 Novus Light Technologies Today - MEMS technology

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 ...

2015-10-12 Energy Harvesting Journal - MEMS technology

"Lab in a needle" could streamline medical diagnoses

To create their device, scientists at Houston Methodist, in collaboration with researchers in Singapore, made use of the concept of a lab on a chip; a small microfluidic chip capable of carrying out the functions of a routine laboratory diagnostic test ...

2015-10-12 Gizmag - MEMS technology

Electrochemical process changes magnetism in ferromagnets reversibly

By intercalation of lithium ions into certain magnets and de-intercalation, their mag-netism can be controlled specifically. Credit: KIT/Wiley-VCH. Magnets are well-known from the physics lessons at school, but they are hardly covered in chemistry ...

yesterday Phys.Org - MEMS technology

MEMS business

UTAC and mCube announce production ramp of MEMS 3-axis

UTAC, a Singapore-based semiconductor assembly and test services provider, and mCube, a provider of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) motion sensors, have jointly announced the successful qualification and ...

2015-10-11 - MEMS business

NC Researchers Receive NIH Grant to Develop Organ-on-a-Chip Technology for ...

Allbritton is an expert at microfabrication and microengineering. Also on the team are intestinal stem cell expert Scott T. Magness, PhD, associate professor of medicine, biomedical engineering, and cell and molecular physiology in the UNC School of ...

2015-10-12 AZoNano.com - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

New research could revolutionize flexible electronics, solar cells

Binghamton University researchers have demonstrated an eco-friendly process that enables unprecedented spatial control over the electrical properties of graphene oxide. This two-dimensional nanomaterial has the potential to revolutionize flexible ...

today Phys.Org - Nanotechnology

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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