MEMS technology

Imec prototypes ion sensor

Depending on the application and the form factor, it can be mass produced through microfabrication or through screen-printing on inexpensive substrates such as glass or foil. As compared to commercial ion sensors, this bring a unique advantage in terms ...

today Electronics Weekly - MEMS technology

$1000 Solid-State LiDAR to Debut in 2016... for Automobiles

The sensor, as Quanergy describes it, “contains an integrated circuit that scans in every direction without any moving parts on both the macro and the micro scale, creating a live 3D view around a car, and detecting, classifying, and tracking objects ...

today Spar Point Group - MEMS technology

Si-Ware's miniature MEMS worlds

MEMS, or micro-electrical-mechanical-systems, are tiny mechanical parts such as motors and pumps on silicon chips that form microsensors or microactuators. (Image via New York Photonics). Imagine looking through a microscope and seeing a ...

yesterday Wamda - MEMS technology

Water-cooled clothing no longer a joke

As its name suggests, microfluidics is the art of building devices that handle tiny amounts of liquid. Inkjet-printer cartridges are a familiar example. Less familiar, but also important, are "labs-on-a-chip". These are tiny analytical devices that ...

2015-11-22 The Australian Financial Review - MEMS technology

Cyborg Rose: Living Plant Tissue Used To Build Components Of Electronic Circuits

For their first ever attempt, scientists have created a kind of cyborg flower – a rose which has micro-electronic circuits embedded through its vascular system, allowing scientists to send and receive electrical and electronic signals and have an ...

2015-11-21 The Inquisitr - MEMS technology

What microprocessors need for military grade aerospace systems

A need for high performance space systems has resulted in satellite manufacturers looking for alternatives to traditional radiation hardened microelectronic devices. One of the approaches is to use existing commercial technology with proven radiation ...

yesterday Electronics Weekly - MEMS technology

3d printed microparticles

Producing 3-D shapes at the micro scale could be useful for designing custom biomaterials such as interlocking particles that self-assemble to help tissue regenerate, or for industrial applications such as creating new coatings and paints with unique ...

yesterday Next Big Future - MEMS technology

Microfluidics chip for creation of single cell libraries

Dolomite, a leader in microfluidics innovation, has launched the Single Cell RNA-Seq Chip for simple, reliable creation of single cell libraries. This new chip allows researchers to use droplet-based microfluidic methods to help explore the behaviour ...

2015-11-20 Scientist Live - MEMS technology

MEMS business

Debiotech partners with Swiss academics to create a novel artificial pancreas

Swiss med tech player Debiotech has partnered to develop a next-gen artificial pancreas for diabetics with a pair of Swiss research centers. The aim is to improve upon the accuracy of automatic insulin delivery by using a microelectromechanical system ...

today FierceMedicalDevices (press release) (registration) - MEMS business

MEMS-based diagnostic device at core of Australia-India collaboration

AUSTRALIAN and Indian scientists and researchers came together to discuss the use of Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) and nanotechnology to enhance sustainable agriculture and healthcare. 25 top scientists representing represented a number ...

yesterday Electronics News - MEMS business

Why Nvidia's Opportunity In Autos Is Heavily Underrated

Nvidia won't produce the electronic components of a car, i.e. the micro controller units and micro electromechanical systems. Therefore, Nvidia will exhibit very limited participation in the commodity segment of the space as their IP portfolio isn't ...

2015-11-22 Seeking Alpha - MEMS business

The inertial MEMS device market keeps on growing. What's next?

The MEMS industry today is in the age of sensing and interacting. The wide diffusion of MEMS and sensors gives us a better, safer perception of the external environment. In its latest report, Status of the MEMS Industry (Yole Développement, May 2015 ...

yesterday ElectroIQ (blog) - MEMS business

MEMS Market: Ups and Upstarts

LAKE WALES, Fla.--Bosch and Texas Instruments are likely to maintain the top two positions in the microelectromechanical system (MEMS) markets in 2015, but Avago is predicted to jump from fifth to third in preliminary tallies, knocking ...

today EE Times - MEMS business

Orbotech shares vision for future electronics manufacturing models; leverages ...

In 2014, Orbotech acquired SPTS, a leading supplier of etch and deposition process equipment for the global semiconductor and microelectronic device manufacturing industries. The acquisition allowed Orbotech to accelerate its expansion into advanced ...

yesterday Digitimes - MEMS business

SEMI b-to-b goes negative

SEMI is a global industry association serving the nano- and micro-electronic manufacturing supply chains with 1,900 member companies. See also: Q2 bookings surge, reports SEMI. See also: Front end equipment spending up 5% this year, 6.6% next year - ...

2015-11-20 Electronics Weekly - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

The Future Of Nanotechnology And Computers So Small You Can Swallow Them

Tiny computers have allowed us to do things that were once considered science fiction. Take the 1960s film, Fantastic Voyage, where a crew is shrunk to microscopic size and sent into the body of an injured scientist. While we aren't shrinking humans ...

yesterday NPR - Nanotechnology

Move over graphene, there's a new wonder material in town

We've long reported here at Siliconrepublic.com the regular improvements in the material known as graphene, but now it seems there's a new material developed that will put its achievements to shame. The new material that's supposedly about to turn ...

yesterday Siliconrepublic.com - Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology Will Sustain Us in Space

In addition to nanotechnology, self-sufficient space habitats would require alternative methods of recycling. Recycling technologies for recent space exploration have focused on water and organic material. The real challenge for distant habitats will ...

2015-11-20 Laboratory Equipment (blog) - Nanotechnology

Breakthrough allows tracking of single molecules in 3-D with nanoscale accuracy

An innovative approach to calibrating high-tech microscopes enables researchers to track the movement of single molecules in 3D at the nanoscale. A Stanford University research team, led by W. E. Moerner, extends the work that earned Moerner and ...

yesterday EurekAlert (press release) - Nanotechnology

New sensor sends electronic signal when estrogen is detected

"Aptamers are a potentially powerful tool for sensors because they are so versatile and selective," said Natalie Plank, a researcher who studies nanomaterial device fabrication at the Victoria University of Wellington. Aptamers are developed through a ...

today Phys.Org - Nanotechnology

Nanoscale physics underlie new telecommunications technology

It's at the nanoscale that researchers from UOW's School of Physics have discovered a new method of constructing nanowires for use as semiconductors—the foundation of all modern electronics. PhD student Julian Steele said the precision assembly of ...

yesterday Phys.Org - Nanotechnology

Nanoreactors: Chemistry in and out of nanoflasks

Writing in Nature Nanotechnology, Rafal Klajn and co-workers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and the University of Illinois at Chicago now report a clever and conceptually different approach to overcome this limitation, in which light is ...

yesterday Nature.com - Nanotechnology

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Event Calendar

PowerMEMS 2015 2015-12-01 - 2015-12-04 Boston, MA The 15th International Conference on Micro and Nanotechnology Power Generation and Energy Conversion Applications
MicroNanoConference 2015 2015-12-08 - 2015-12-09 Amsterdam
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