MEMS technology

Microencapsulation Mass-Produces Encapsulated, Uniform Particles for Pharmaceuticals

The recent issues of the journal Lab on a Chip features a report presented by researchers from MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratories. In this report, the researchers talk about a new microencapsulation method that helps to obtain particles of ...

AZoNano: 2016-10-06 - MEMS technology

Motion-directed Robots on a Micro Scale

Celia Lozano (MPI for Intelligent Systems/University of Stuttgart) The ability to move in a directed way instead of swimming willy-nilly in a random direction is vital for many microorganisms. “Evolution has taken enormous efforts to endow motile ...

scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com: 2016-10-04 - MEMS technology

Manufacturing microspheres

Such small and complex devices would be virtually impossible to manufacture using standard microfabrication processes, Velásquez-García says. “These devices can only be made if you print them,” Velásquez-García says. “We’re not doing printing ...

Nano werk: 2016-10-06 - MEMS technology

Researchers fabricate microfibers for single-cell studies, tissue engineering

"Neural stem cells on our polymer fibers could survive, differentiate and grow," said Nastaran Hashemi, an Iowa State assistant professor of mechanical engineering and leader of an Iowa State team producing microfibers with the help of microfluidics ...

Phys: 2016-10-06 - MEMS technology

MEMS oscillator reduces dropped calls in base stations

5G is coming in a few years, but in the interim, telecom providers are increasing small cell deployment, adding microwave backhaul systems, as well as synchronous Ethernet and optical communications as communication networks become increasingly denser.

EDN Network: 2016-10-04 - MEMS technology

Low noise MEMS for structural defect-diagnosis through vibration sensing

Analog Devices has launched new MEMS accelerometers ADXL354 and ADXL355 to measure vibration at low noise targeting applications such as detecting defects in structures like bridges, huge buildings, flyovers or any such vibration prone structures through ...

EE Herald: 2016-10-06 - MEMS technology

Ultrasensitive sensors ensure optimum sight conditions

The radar system recognized the obstacle, but couldn't locate it precisely and mistook the truck for a road sign," says Werner Brockherde, head of the CMOS Image Sensors business unit at the Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems IMS ...

Phys: 2016-10-04 - MEMS technology

Pyroelectric Peptide Microtubes Turn Heat to Electric Currents

For example, the structures could be used to create small-scale thermal energy harvesters, which could scavenge energy lost in microelectronic devices. In addition, their pyroelectric properties could be used to engineer microscale and nanoscale ...

scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com: 2016-10-05 - MEMS technology

MEMS business

Engineered Material Systems to Showcase Liquid and Dry Film Negative tone Photoresists at Semicon Europa

Engineered Material Systems, Inc., a leading global supplier of negative photoresist materials for MEMS and TSV passivation/sealing applications, will exhibit at Semicon Europa, scheduled to take place Oct. 25-27, 2016 in Grenoble, France. Company ...

emsnow.com: 2016-10-06 - MEMS business

Microchip – MEMS oscillators good choice as clock references in small, battery-powered devices (DSC6000)

Microchip has announced the availability of the DSC6000 family of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) oscillators. The new family is claimed to be the industry’s smallest MEMS MHz oscillator with the lowest power consumption over full frequency range ...

Electropages: 2016-10-06 - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Nanoscale device detects bacteria and tests for antibiotic resistance

(Nanowerk News) An interdisciplinary team of engineering and pharmaceutical researchers at the University of Alberta has invented a device that can rapidly identify harmful bacteria and can determine whether it is resistant to antibiotics. The device could ...

Nano werk: 2016-10-05 - Nanotechnology

Why diamond nanothread could prove priceless for manufacturing

That research is published in the peer-reviewed publication Nanoscale. "Further modelling is needed to fully investigate all the properties of DNT. However, I am excited about the potential range of applications it could be used for, given we've proven we ...

Phys: 2016-10-06 - Nanotechnology

Nanotech business

Nanotechnology just netted its first Nobel.

It all has to do with “molecular machines” — teeny devices made out of individual atoms — that mark the start of a wave of nano-innovation that could drastically change, well, a LOT. You want transparent solar panels? Tiny, super-efficient ...

Grist: 2016-10-05 - Nanotech business

Calling all nanotechnology-empowered superheroes

(Nanowerk News) WHIZ! POW! BAM! BOOM! Today, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) announce the opening of the second annual Generation Nano: Small Science, Superheroes! competition. The contest invites U.S ...

Nano werk: 2016-10-06 - Nanotech business

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Event Calendar

uTAS 2016 2016-10-09 - 2016-10-13 Dublin, Ireland The 20th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences
IMAPS 2016 2016-10-10 - 2016-10-13 Pasadena, CA Packaging the Connected World
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
Defense Innovation 2016-11-29 - 2016-12-01 Austin, TX Co-Located with Defense Energy and SBIR/STTR
MEMS 2017 2017-01-22 - 2017-01-26 Las Vegas, Nevada The 30th Annual IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems
Photonics West 2017 2017-01-28 - 2017-02-02 Moscone Center San Francisco, California, USA The world's largest multidisciplinary event focusing on photonics
TechConnect World Innovation Conference & Expo 2017-05-14 - 2017-05-17 Washington, DC Accelerating the Commercialization of Global Innovation