MEMS technology

Tech for easier wearable microelectronic devices

Software source codes and hardware designs tend to be closely guarded trade secrets. Not so with open-source products. For instance, the code of open-source software is freely available to all: the best known example is the Linux operating system. Not ...

2016-04-01 Bangalore Mirror - MEMS technology

50 Engineers in Taiwan are secretly developing New Display Tech for Apple ...

But rather than moving around dye like an E-Ink screen, IMOD uses tiny moving mirror-like elements, referred to as being a micro-electro-mechanical system, or MEMS (also known as a “micro-machine”). The downside to IMOD has historically been that it ...

2016-04-01 Daily Star Gazette - MEMS technology

MEMS gravimeter takes underground mapping to the masses

Using a proprietary asymmetric cantilever design, researchers from the University of Glasgow have designed a portable MEMS-based gravimeter boasting the smallest resonant frequency ever reported for a MEMS device together with unprecedented stability ...

2016-04-01 Electronics EETimes (registration) - MEMS technology

Innovation: Flying safe

A micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) INS would be very small, would not require a lot of power, and could improve the performance of a UAS navigation system. A GNSS plus MEMS INS approach may well be able to provide the robustness needed for ...

today GPS World magazine - MEMS technology

Ion Chromatography-on-a-Chip for Water Quality Analysis

Recently, the team published details on their progress toward a Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS)-based ion chromatograph (IC) for water analysis. This IC-chip is an offshoot of another NASA-funded effort to produced a high-performance liquid ...

yesterday Space Ref (press release) - MEMS technology

Light Could Become the Dominant Form of Heat Transfer

They used a precision micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) to bring nanoscale beams of silicon carbide as close as 43 nm apart; the heat transfer far outstripped what could be predicted by conventional thermal radiation laws, specifically a phenomenon ...

2016-04-01 IEEE Spectrum - MEMS technology

MEMS business

Acal BFi sells Tronics MEMS sensors in Europe

Acal BFi sells Tronics MEMS sensors in Europe. Acal BFi, has signed a distribution agreement with Tronics Microsystems and will sell the French supplier's MEMS inertial sensors to the European markets.

2016-04-01 Electronics Weekly - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Reversible nanoscale control of magnetism

This approach offers researchers the opportunity to control magnetism at the nanoscale as never before. The authors used this method to fabricate channels where spin waves can propagate. Spin waves are a propagating re-ordering of the magnetization in ...

yesterday Next Big Future - Nanotechnology

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Event Calendar

Trillion Sensors (TSensors) 2016-04-14 Online, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM EDT Foundation for Disruptive IoT Economy
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
The Importance of Accuracy in Wearables 2016-05-05 Online, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM EDT
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.
MEMS Testing & Reliability 2016 Workshop 2016-08-02 Santa Clara, California
MEMS Manufacturing 2016 2016-08-03 - 2016-08-04 Santa Clara, California
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