MEMS technology

IBM Lab-on-a-Chip Breakthrough Aims to Help Physicians Detect Cancer and Diseases at the Nanoscale

Yorktown Heights, N.Y. - 01 Aug 2016: IBM (NYSE: IBM) scientists have developed a new lab-on-a-chip technology that can, for the first time, separate biological particles at the nanoscale and could help enable physicians to detect diseases such as cancer ...

www-03.ibm.com: 2016-08-18 - MEMS technology

Smart Dust Will Be The Future Of The Internet Of Things

For a more complex definition, Smart Dust is based on microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) that are just a few millimeters wide that can perform measurements such as temperature, vibration, humidity, chemical components, magnetism and so forth.

arc.applause.com: 2016-08-18 - MEMS technology

MEMS business

LEDInside to Explore Next Generation Micro-LED Display Technology at LEDforum 2016

Elevated by its potential to become one of Apple’s core technologies, OLED has expanded ... The conference will dissect all aspects of the Micro LED market, including materials, manufacturing, system integration and end applications.

ledinside.com: 2016-08-18 - MEMS business

It's A Jungle Out There In Wearable Technology

Qualcomm actually had its own wearable too, the Qualcomm Toq, which it billed as a proof of concept. It had a unique MEMS display that gave it several days of battery life, something that was unheard of at the time in a smartwatch with a color display.

Forbes: 2016-08-18 - MEMS business

Will your next iPhone be waterproof? Apple’s latest patent shows system for taking photos underwater

Apple's new tool would act as an image organizer and editing application for this process. The technology is described ... describes Individual components that would be covered in a thin film designed to stop liquids damaging the phone, even if it ...

Daily Mail: 2016-08-18 - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Naval Research Office Uses Genetically Modified Bacteria to Produce Nanowires

The Office of Naval Research has developed nanoscale electrical wires made of genetically modified soil bacteria. ONR’s warfighting performance department sponsored a team of researchers led by Derek Lovley, a microbiologist at the University of ...

Executive Gov: 2016-08-18 - Nanotechnology

New “Large Virus” Thin Film Solar Strategy Pays Off For NIST Team

A research team based at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has determined that an economical process for cranking out thin film solar cells can get this close to hitting the “sweet spot” of 10% conversion efficiency. The process yields ...

CleanTechnica: 2016-08-16 - Nanotechnology

Exploring the promise of the quantum realm

The KNFL facility, a partnership between Queen’s and CMC Microsystems, is an open facility for researchers and companies that want to make, characterize and test devices and materials with small dimensions from nanometre to millimetre. The new lab ...

queensu.ca: 2016-08-16 - Nanotechnology

A New Way to Display the 3-D Structure of Molecules

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley have created a sort of nanoscale display case that enables new atomic-scale views of hard-to-study chemical and biological samples. Their work ...

newscenter.lbl.gov: 2016-08-18 - Nanotechnology

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Event Calendar

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