MEMS technology

Dolomite's Fluidic Factory 3D prints Microfluidic Chips for as little as $1 ...

Dolomite, one of the world's leading companies specializing in the design and manufacturing of microfluidic devices and systems, has just released its latest product: a fluidics 3D printer, capable of easily and affordably manufacturing microfluidic chips.

today 3ders.org (blog) - MEMS technology

Debiotech SA – Product Pipeline Analysis, 2016 Update

The companys products include patch-pump, injection, multi-fluidic cassette type system, infusion pump and microsystems. It develops products in the areas of implantable and external drug delivery systems using nanotechnologies, micromechanics and ...

today Medgadget.com (blog) - MEMS technology

Nanosphere photolithography for sub-100nm features

This step—known as photolithography—is crucial in the microfabrication process. It allows selective deposition and etching of metals and semiconductor materials, which are the building blocks of optoelectronics and microelectronics. There is ...

2016-03-14 SPIE Newsroom - MEMS technology

Researchers Use Chip Technology to Create Cell Culturing with Integrated Sensors

The chip will be embedded in a micromachined cartridge with the necessary microfluidics to bring in the solutions to allow the cells to grow and, of course, the candidate drugs that need to be tested. Eventually, this could evolve in a package with ...

today Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News - MEMS technology

Coral on a chip cracks coral mysteries

This system is based on microfluidics technology, which had been developed to track cellular processes under life-like conditions. Taking a small piece of coral, Vardi and his team induced stressful conditions - in this case by increasing salt content ...

today Phys.Org - MEMS technology

Direct growth of III-V quantum dot lasers on silicon substrate

Presently, combining laser diode technology with silicon involves tricky wafer bonding techniques. Better quality III-V direct growth on germanium (Ge) can be achieved either as a substrate or as an intermediate layer on silicon ('virtual substrate ...

2016-03-14 Semiconductor Today - MEMS technology

MEMS business

Imec Adds 4000-m Cleanroom for Integrated Circuit Production

LEUVEN, Belgium, March 16, 2016 — Nanoelectronics research center imec has announced the opening of a 4000-m² cleanroom within its research facility, bringing its semiconductor research cleanroom space to a total of 12,000 m². The cleanroom ...

today Photonics.com - MEMS business

Sales of MEMS-based Products to Rise 4.4% in 2016, IC Insights Reports

According to IC Insights, in 2015, nine product categories within the optoelectronics, sensors/actuators, and discretes (O-S-D) marketplace reached record-high sales compared to seven in 2014 and six in 2013. And sales of MEMS-based products are ...

yesterday CTIMES - MEMS business

New Technology Like 3D Printing Emerges—Companies Collaborate, Integrate ...

Micromachining—often with the use of the laser–is seen as important to applications in the medical field for items like stents, cutting holes and making other features in items like catheters and fluid delivery devices, as well as making permanent ...

2016-03-13 3DPrint.com - MEMS business

MEMS Grand Challenge Debuts

LAKE WALES Fla.—Simplfying and popularizing microelectromechanical system (MEMS) design is the goal of the MEMS Design Contest announced yesterday (March 16) at the conference titled Data Automation and Test in Europe (DATE 2016, March 15 to ...

today EE Times - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology used to reduce cost of thermoelectric generators

Now a UK research team, led by Dr Jan-Willem Bos at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, is attempting to use nanotechnology to reduce the cost of thermoelectric generators, allowing them to be used in a wider range of applications. The team, which ...

yesterday The Engineer - Nanotechnology

New Microwave Imaging Approach Opens Nanoscale View on Processes in Liquids

NIST & ORNL scientists have devised a near-field microwave imaging approach to capture images of nanoscale processes under natural conditions. (Credit: Kolmakov/CNST) U.S. government nanotechnology researchers have demonstrated a new window ...

today R & D Magazine - Nanotechnology

The strange interiors of nanoscale cubosomes

Two externally almost identical cubosomes can have a greatly varying internal structure, found scientists from the IPC PAS in Warsaw, Poland. Credit: IPC PAS. Under certain conditions, appropriately selected particles can form closed surfaces in ...

today Phys.Org - Nanotechnology

Graphene origami produced by world's thinnest folds

But until now, no one has been able to make an origami crease in just a single sheet, says Itai Cohen of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. “Folding rules are the same at the macro scale or the micro scale,” he says it's just much more difficult ...

yesterday New Scientist - Nanotechnology

Advanced energy storage material gets unprecedented nanoscale analysis

"The energy storage properties have been characterized on a microscopic scale, but no one knows what happens in the active material on the nanoscale in terms of ion insertion and how this affects stresses and strains in the material," Balke said.

today Phys.Org - Nanotechnology

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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