MEMS technology

Northrop to develop new IMU guidance system for weapons

The miniaturized unit will be based on advanced microelectromechanical systems, or MEMS, technology to enable navigation by sensing acceleration and angular motion, providing data outputs used by vehicle control systems for guidance. "Due to our ...

2016-03-16 UPI.com - MEMS technology

Last MEMS Oscillator Maker Standing

SiTime--the microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) timing chip maker--may be the "last MEMS oscillator maker standing." LAKE WALES, Fla.—Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) timing devices are destined to take over the timing chip market sooner ...

today EE Times - MEMS technology

lowest power solar harvester chip

EM Microelectronic is promoting its EM8500 energy harvester chip, claimed to be the lowest power photovoltaic harvester. The Swiss chip company, which has its own fab, is owned by Swatch and has a background in ultra-low power electronics. Designed to ...

2016-03-16 Electronics Weekly - MEMS technology

AMFitzgerald Develops Path to Harvest Broken MEMS Wafers

Cracked wafers in manufacturing is not a new thing, but when it comes to microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) processing, it is even more complex and full of variances within a wafer, from wafer to wafer, and from lot to lot. Even chips that seem to ...

yesterday IHS Electronics360 - MEMS technology

MEMS business

Panel Ponders MEMS Roadmaps, a Moore's Law of MEMS

LONDON—Could oversupply be coming to MEMS? A panel at the MEMS & Sensors Technical Congress held in Munich, Germany, this month was asked to find solutions to challenges to the growth of the MEMS industry over the next decade but raised more ...

2016-03-16 EE Times - MEMS business

Canon Inc. to make Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation a subsidiary

... with its exceptional product development capabilities, is expected to lead to further enhancing TMSC's product strength through the provision of precision design and microfabrication technologies, an optimized production system and cooperation ...

yesterday The FINANCIAL - MEMS business

Imec Adds 4000-m 2 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 ...

2016-03-16 Photonics.com - MEMS business

MEMS designers have opportunity to compete

A MEMS design contest aims to encourage over the next two years the design of devices which integrate MEMS (micro electro-mechanical system) and mixed-signal CMOS blocks. The competition is being sponsored by Cadence Design Systems, Coventor, ...

today Electronics Weekly - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

A single sheet of graphene folded up is micro origami at its best

“Folding rules are the same at the macro scale or the micro scale,” he said, noting the fragility of single sheets of graphene when trying to achieve managed folds. By working out a way to do it, the research has opened the door for various circuit ...

2016-03-16 Siliconrepublic.com - Nanotechnology

Nano repair bots mimic wound healing to seal cracks

A 0.5–2.2μm scratch in an electrode, typical of the cracks in microelectronic devices and circuits, creates a valley just the right size to capture the nanomotors as they jet over the surface. When a droplet of hydrogen peroxide solution was placed on ...

2016-03-16 Royal Society of Chemistry - Nanotechnology

Nanotech business

Public relations professionals should prepare to tackle nanotechnology

More companies are becoming involved in nanotechnology, and PR pros should not treat the subject as some black hole from which to run. Issues surrounding nanotechnology will have to be dealt with, from media relations to issues management to ethics.

today PRWeek - Nanotech business

Featured Event

Event Calendar

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