MEMS technology

Femtosecond Laser

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 30, 2015 — Femtosecond Laser The Rapid FX femtosecond laser from Coherent Inc. is designed for precision micromachining of metal, glass, sapphire, ceramic and other dielectric materials. The solid-state laser delivers 900-fs ...

today Photonics.com - MEMS technology

Samsung Starts Mass Production of "Memory monster" 128GB TSV DDR4 RAM

TSV advanced circuitry connects the chip components using “hundreds of fine holes and vertically connected by electrodes passing through the holes, allowing for a significant boost in signal transmission,” instead of traditional wire bonding, explains ...

2015-11-27 Techworm - MEMS technology

Vibration switch protects critical assets

The HS-429, which features a MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical System) accelerometer integrated onto the I.C. (Integrated Circuit) microchip, is exceptionally quick and simple to set up, with the maximum RMS velocity set point and response delay time ...

today Engineer Live - MEMS technology

Nanoscribe 3D printers used by five of top ten universities in the world

Their 3D printing microfabrication technology is based on 'direct laser writing', a non-linear two-photon absorption process in which a controlled laser solidifies a liquid, photo-sensitive material. This absolutely microscopic 3D printing scale opens ...

today 3ders.org (blog) - MEMS technology

CERN in a Shoebox? Tiny Particle Accelerators Are Coming

In addition, microfabrication could allow researchers to squish hundreds of accelerators in series on a single wafer, England said. The team aims to have a working prototype in five years, and the project recently received millions of dollars in ...

today Live Science - MEMS technology

Advances in Cryopreservation: Thinking About Interstellar Travel

However, some initial experiments and computer modeling of a proposed new process suggest that this hour-long process can be reduced to as little as three minutes, using a membrane-based, microfluidic device. This could make it far more feasible to use ...

2015-11-28 Space Ref (press release) - MEMS technology

MEMS business

Debiotech, Swiss Academics To Develop "More Intelligent" Artificial Pancreas

Debiotech has signed an exclusive partnership with two Swiss research facilities to collaborate on a next-generation approach to artificial pancreas technology. The new system will pair a newly developed control algorithm with a micro-electro ...

today Med Device Online (press release) - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Researchers introduce new route to thermal measurements with nanometer resolution

Understanding nanoscale heat flow is critical in the design of integrated electronic devices and in the development of materials for thermal insulation and thermoelectric energy recovery. While several techniques are currently available to observe heat ...

today Phys.Org - Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology, Solar Energy & Costa Rica

nanotechnology 1 Still, we have not made use of its full potential. A Costa Rican Scientist, Samuel Stupp, hopes to change that. He is leading various nanotechnology investigations regarding obtaining electricity and fuel from the sun's energy. Stupp ...

yesterday The Costa Rican Times - Nanotechnology

Highly tunable hybrid metamaterials fabricated using ...

A team of international scientists have engineered a remarkable new hybrid structure, or metamaterial, that possesses specific characteristics that are not found in natural materials. The collaborative team combined nano-ribbons of graphene, in which electrons are able to oscillate backwards and forwards, together with a type of antenna called a split ring resonator.

today - Nanotechnology

Nanoscale Octopods Improve Industrial Processes

Rice University scientist Emilie Ringe, working at Rice's electron microscopy center, led a new study to establish that plasmonic nanoparticles can support catalysts without losing their beneficial optical properties. Image: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University ...

today Controlled Environments Magazine - Nanotechnology

Researchers introduce new route to thermal measurements ...

Understanding nanoscale heat flow is critical in the design of integrated electronic devices and in the development of materials for thermal insulation and thermoelectric energy recovery. While several techniques are currently available to observe heat transport over macroscopic distances, there is a need for new methods capable of revealing the dynamics of heat flow with nanometer resolution.

today - Nanotechnology

Featured Event

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