MEMS technology

Designing for Low Noise Feedback Control with MEMS Gyroscopes

MEMS gyroscopes offer a simple way to measure the angular rate of rotation in packages that easily attach to printed circuit boards, so they are a popular choice to serve as the feedback sensing element in many different types of motion control systems.

allaboutcircuits.com: 2016-12-15 - MEMS technology

Movable microplatform floats on a sea of droplets (w/ video)

New MIT research could offer a way of making tiny movable parts with no solid connections between the pieces, potentially eliminating a major source of wear and failure in microelectromechanical machines. The new system uses a layer of liquid droplets to ...

Phys: 2016-12-16 - MEMS technology

DRDO Develops MEMS Eavesdropping And Surveillance Equipment For Border Security

Indian DRDO’s Research and Innovation Centre has developed micro-devices and micro unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) using high-end Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) for eavesdropping and surveillance along border areas and internal security.

Defense World: 2016-12-15 - MEMS technology

Fundamental design principles of novel MEMS based "Landau" switches, sensors, and actuators : Role of electrode geometry and operation regime

Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are considered as potential candidates for "More-Moore" and "More-than-Moore" applications due to their versatile use as sensors, switches, and actuators. Examples include accelerometers for sensing, RF-MEMS capacitive ...

docs.lib.purdue.edu: 2016-12-14 - MEMS technology

3D-Printed Heart-on-a-Chip Can Predict Efficacy of Pharmaceutical Drugs

According to Kit Parker, co-author of the study and professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics, the new microfabrication approach is a big stride in achieving in vitro tissue engineering, toxicology, and drug screening research. The results of this ...

allaboutcircuits.com: 2016-12-16 - MEMS technology

MEMS business

3D-Micromac and Allotex cooperate on excimer laser systems for vision-correction lens implants

Allotex CEO David Muller says that 3D-Micromac's laser micromachining expertise and system know-how will play a key role in the manufacture of these precision lenses. "We have been working with 3D-Micromac for over a year on the initial prototype ...

laserfocusworld.com: 2016-12-18 - MEMS business

Discover the microfluidics market

The global microfluidics market is highly fragmented; some of the major players in this market are Danaher Corporation (U.S.), PerkinElmer, Inc. (U.S.), Agilent Technologies, Inc. (U.S.), Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. (U.S.), Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (U ...

Whatech: 2016-12-17 - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

New nanomaterial allows rewritable optical components

A military drone flying on a reconnaissance mission is captured behind enemy lines, setting into motion a team of engineers who need to remotely delete sensitive information carried on the drone's chips. Because the chips are optical and not electronic ...

materialstoday.com: 2016-12-15 - Nanotechnology

Device for detecting subatomic-scale motion

Schematic shows laser light interacting with a plasmonic gap resonator, a miniature device designed at NIST to measure with unprecedented precision the nanoscale motions of nanoparticles. An incident laser beam (pink beam at left) strikes the resonator ...

Phys: 2016-12-16 - Nanotechnology

Nanoscale photonic circuit

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www.nsf.gov: 2016-12-16 - Nanotechnology

Carbon Nanotubes Make New Approach to Microfluidics More Effective

Circulating tumor cells (CTC) are key early indicators of metastasis, which is the process by which cancer cells move from one organ group in the body to another. Once cancer spreads, the prognosis is generally not good. So, early identification of CTCs ...

IEEE Spectrum: 2016-12-16 - Nanotechnology

Hidden Inkjet Printing Revealed with Terahertz Light

Noble-metal plasmonic resonators require expensive, custom microfabrication techniques, while the humble inkjet printer can lay down ink with sufficient resolution—and with spatially varying electrical conductivity—to create subwavelength nanostructures.

osa-opn.org: 2016-12-14 - Nanotechnology

Nanotech business

Nanotechnology Helps Revolutionize Medicine; Makes It More Effective, Smarter, and More Affordable

Nanobots performing a number of functions inside the body, targeted drug delivery like a smart missile, and nanochips implanted in the body sending feedback to a computer may all sound like science fiction, but the fact is that all of this is possible ...

internetmedicine.com: 2016-12-18 - Nanotech business

Featured Event

Event Calendar

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
INERTIAL '17 2017-03-27 - 2017-03-30 Kauai, Hawaii The 4th IEEE International Symposium on Inertial Sensors & Systems
IEEE-NEMS 2017 2017-04-09 - 2017-04-12 UCLA, Los Angeles, CA The 12th Annual International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems
MEMS & Sensors Technical Congress 2017 2017-05-10 - 2017-05-11 Stanford, CA Working Together to Solve Technical Challenges and Increase Value across the MEMS and Sensors Supply Chain
TechConnect World Innovation Conference & Expo 2017-05-14 - 2017-05-17 Washington, DC Accelerating the Commercialization of Global Innovation
MEMS Testing & Reliability 2017 2017-08-01 Santa Clara, CA Workshop and Exhibition
MEMS Manufacturing 2017 2017-08-03 - 2017-08-07 Santa Clara, CA Annual Conference and Exhibition