MEMS technology

How droplets bead on ultra-waterproof surfaces

... steady "vibration isolation" table and a hydraulic car jack, they carefully rolled water drops along the tops of silane-coated microposts and took images using a laser microscope, a super-sensitive microscope that lets researchers see down to the ...

2016-02-29 Cosmos - MEMS technology

Devices from the second half of 2016 could boast improved audio recording ...

At MWC 2016, the media spoke to Andreas Urschitz, an executive at Germany's Infineon Technologies, and Matt Crowley – CEO of Vesper. The company provides its MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) silicon to Hong Kong-based AAC Technologies, ...

yesterday Phone Arena - MEMS technology

Finding Your Way In Time

“It will take a collaboration of teams with skill sets from diverse fields, including atomic physics, optics, photonics, microfabrication and vacuum technology, to achieve the unprecedented clock stability that we seek. “All of our modern ...

yesterday Signal Magazine - MEMS technology

'Biomolecular Motor-based' Computer Promises Speed and Reduced Power

Microfluidics-based parallel computation is difficult to scale up in practice due to rapidly diverging physical size and complexity of the computation devices with the size of the problem, as well as the need for impractically large external pressure.

today HPCwire (blog) - MEMS technology

Quantitative assessment of dynamic deformability and adhesion of red blood ...

A team of researchers from the Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in Cleveland, OH have developed a versatile microfluidic platform integrated with a cell dimensioning algorithm for quantitative assessment of dynamic deformability and adhesion of ...

yesterday EurekAlert (press release) - MEMS technology

SBG Systems offers inertial sensors in subsea enclosures

Apogee Series is an accurate INS based on robust micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology. One year after the successful release of Apogee surface sensors (IP68 enclosure), SBG Systems completes the product line with the two inertial ...

today GPS World magazine - MEMS technology

The Sensor Swarm Arrives

Fabrication of these structures requires techniques like surface micro-machining, bulk micro-machining and deep reactive ion etching. In addition, MEMS devices traditionally have been manufactured with processes customized for each device. The variety ...

yesterday Desktop Engineering - MEMS technology

How to Measure the Gravitational Field of a Quantum Object

These so-called microelectromechanical devices have become common in recent years—they are the technology behind airbags and accelerometers in smartphones, for example. Now Schmole and co want to use them to measure gravitational forces.

today MIT Technology Review - MEMS technology

Nanotechnology

Growing Billions of Identical Perovskite Nanowires

The researcher notes that lead-halide-perovskite nanowires have already been successfully integrated into perovskite-based solar cells and ultrasensitive, micro-fabricated photodetectors. Furthermore, several research groups have recently reported ...

2016-02-29 Solar Novus Today - Nanotechnology

Microfluidics Technique Mass-Produces Platinum Nanoparticles

LOS ANGELES, March 1, 2016 — A technique for producing nanoparticles that relies on microfluidics — a technology that manipulates tiny droplets of fluid in narrow channels — shows promise for transforming expensive, batch-by-batch nanoparticle ...

yesterday Photonics.com - Nanotechnology

New Technique Could Directly View Nanoscale Objects with Mixture of Heavy and ...

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a new imaging technique, tested on samples of nanoscale gold and carbon, that greatly improves images of light elements using fewer electrons.

yesterday AZoNano - Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology: Molecular Lego with an encoded blueprint

(Nanowerk News) Nature contains a special kind of Lego brick: biological molecules, peptides to be exact, that can be built together to form a wide range of complex structures. Unlike the popular toy bricks, however, the molecular building blocks are ...

today Nanowerk - Nanotechnology

Solving a nanotechnology riddle – what makes gold atoms stick together

Now researchers at UTS have solved the riddle of what makes gold special in today's emerging field of nanotechnology. Professor Jeffrey Reimers and Associate Professor Mike Ford, from the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, led a team that ...

today Phys.Org - Nanotechnology

Featured Event

Event Calendar

MEMS Technical Congress Europe 2016 2016-03-07 - 2016-03-08 Munich, Germany Delivering Technical Solutions, Together.
Intro to MEMS Reliability 2016-03-21 Online, 11:30am EDT How to Fix Problems Before They Happen
Mid Atlantic Micro Alliance Spring 2016 Symposium 2016-03-25 Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Material Advantage - Pioneering devices enabled by material breakthroughs
IEEE-NEMS 2016 2016-04-17 - 2016-04-20 Matsushima Bay and Sendai, Japan The 11th Annual IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems
Flexible Sensors 2016 Workshop 2016-04-26 Santa Clara, California
Medical MEMS & Sensors 2016 2016-04-27 - 2016-04-28 Santa Clara CA MEMS and sensor technologies for medical diagnostic applications
14th Annual MEPTEC MEMS Technology Symposium 2016-05-11 San Jose, CA Advancing MEMS and Sensors for Today's Exploding Demands
ADAS Sensors 2016 Workshop 2016-05-19 Detroit, Michigan
TechConnect World Innovation Conference and Expo 2016-05-22 - 2016-05-25 Washington, DC TechConnect World Innovation Conference co-locates with the largest global innovation program in physical and life sciences. The joint programs include the Nanotech 2016 Conference, the National Innovation Summit, and the National SBIR/STTR Conference.
Hilton Head Workshop 2016 2016-06-05 - 2016-06-09 Hilton Head, South Carolina A Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Workshop
Automotive Sensors and Electronics 2016 2016-06-15 - 2016-06-16 Detroit, MI Annual Conference and Exhibition
Sensors Expo & Conference 2016-06-21 - 2016-06-23 San Jose CA INNOVATIVE APPLICATIONS. EXPERT INSTRUCTORS. AUTHORITATIVE CONTENT. TOMORROW'S SOLUTIONS.
uTAS 2016 2016-10-09 - 2016-10-13 Dublin, Ireland The 20th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences
Micro Photonics International Congress Expo 2016-10-11 - 2016-10-13 Messe Berlin Germany Innovation and Miniaturization in Photonics
MEMS 2017 2017-01-22 - 2017-01-26 Las Vegas, Nevada The 30th Annual IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems