MEMS technology

Micro-Robots for Various Applications are Researched

... t yet fully understand how to best operate the micro-manipulator bots because of various forces unique to the micro- and nano-scale. “With an ordinary robot, say you want to pick up a part and move it somewhere,” said David Cappelleri, an ...

i-hls.com: 2016-08-06 - MEMS technology

High-Performance, Micro-Scale Solar Cells Generate More Electricity

Hongrui Jiang inspects the alignment of a light source to illuminate new-generation lateral solar cells. The solar cells developed by Jiang’s group harvest almost three times more electricity from incoming light as compared to existing technologies.

AZoNano: 2016-08-05 - MEMS technology

Sensors Are Taking Over Sports

Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) capability in pressure sensing manufacturing, combined with technologies requiring low power, offer OEMs the opportunity to package board-mountable sensors in devices. These sensors, which measure barometric pressure ...

sporttechie.com: 2016-08-05 - MEMS technology

MEMS business

MSIG to Conduct Third Annual MEMS & Sensors Industry Group Conference Asia in China

Recognizing the massive growth potential of MicroElectroMechanical systems (MEMS) and sensors in Internet of Things (IoT) applications, MEMS & Sensors Industry Group (MSIG) will hold its third annual MEMS & Sensors Industry Group ® Conference Asia in ...

Azo Sensors: 2016-08-09 - MEMS business

Consortium looks to define next-gen IoT

LAKE WALES, Fla.—By uniting the quest for heterogenous integration of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and silicon photonic devices into the same package, the next-generation of Internet of Things (IoT) could be redefined. A consortium of nearly a d ...

embedded.com: 2016-08-08 - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Using nanotechnology to give fuel cells more oomph

Applying nanotechnology to fuel cells gives them more oomph, report researchers. The project is part of a $13 million program to advance fuel cell performance and durability and hydrogen storage technologies announced last month. At the same time Honda and ...

Science Daily: 2016-08-07 - Nanotechnology

KIT researchers develop method for 3D printing specialized nanoscale AFM probes

According to the KIT researchers, their technique will soon become widely available to nanotechnology researchers and projects. Hölscher even predicts that their technology could inspire an online service, where people could digitally design and order ...

3ders.org: 2016-08-09 - Nanotechnology

Nanoscale 3D printing, have we cracked it?

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have produced a process that could finally master Focused Electron Beam Induced Deposition and drive nanoscale 3D printing forward. Their findings were published in the journal ACS ...

3dprintingindustry.com: 2016-08-09 - Nanotechnology

Self assembly could produce new nanoscale architectures

“In essence,” said Stein, “we’ve created ‘smart’ templates for nanomaterial self-assembly. How far we can push the technique remains to be seen, but it opens some very promising pathways.” The scientists now plan to increase the ...

New Electronics: 2016-08-09 - Nanotechnology

Stanford-led team reveals nanoscale secrets of rechargeable batteries

In a paper published this week in the journal Science, a team led by William Chueh, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at Stanford and a faculty scientist at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, has ...

Nanotechnology Now: 2016-08-08 - Nanotechnology

Quantum Computing: Chip To Shoot Lasers At Ions Trapped In Electric Field

Published Monday in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, the paper titled “Integrated optical addressing of an ion qubit” describes “a prototype chip that can trap ions in an electric field and, with built-in optics, direct laser light toward each of ...

International Business Times: 2016-08-09 - Nanotechnology

Development of a novel carbon nanomaterial 'pot'

Carbon nanopots are made of several different laminated graphene layer structures as labeled by the yellow text. The magnified image (inset) reveals the area indicated by the dashed line in the main image. The numerical value in the inset is the average ...

Phys: 2016-08-05 - Nanotechnology

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ASME 2016 COMS 2016-08-28 - 2016-08-31 Houston, TX Commercialization of Micro, Nano, and Emerging Technologies
Sensors Midwest 2016-09-27 - 2016-09-28 Rosemont, IL
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 and Sensors Executive Congress US 2016 2016-11-09 - 2016-11-11 Scottsdale, Arizona CAPTURING VALUE FROM MEMS AND SENSORS
MEMS 2017 2017-01-22 - 2017-01-26 Las Vegas, Nevada The 30th Annual IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems