MEMS technology

These Cutting-Edge Solar Panels Roll Up Like Wrapping Paper

Blending flexibility with efficiency has been an enormous challenge, though. Okandan and his team had to get the microdesign and microfabrication techniques just right. RELATED: Solar 'Wings' Power Swiss Ski Lift Prior to starting mPower Technology in 2015 ...

Seeker: 2017-02-15 - MEMS technology

Engineers shrink atomic force microscope to dime-sized device

Moheimani and his colleagues describe their prototype device in this month's issue of the IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems ("On-Chip Dynamic Mode Atomic Force Microscopy: A Silicon-on-Insulator MEMS Approach"). A MEMS-based atomic force ...

Nano werk: 2017-02-15 - MEMS technology

Counterattacking the counterfeit

In an effort to get ahead of the problem of counterfeit wireless chargers – which could cause power surges that fry a device’s circuitry – researchers from MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratories have built a chip that blocks attempts to ...

eedesignit.com: 2017-02-10 - MEMS technology

Meet the little black box that's controlling your next bike

Nevertheless most riders are already using them and don’t want to go back to carburettors Matthias Mörbe, Bosch Mörbe said: “We introduced the micro-machine technology in 1998, and in principle it’s always the same. We have very small units which ...

www.bennetts.co.uk: 2017-02-15 - MEMS technology

MIT Team's Low-Power Chip Could Revolutionize Speech Recognition in Electronics

Researchers at MIT's Microsystems Technology Laboratories have built a low-power chip specialized for automatic speech recognition. With power savings of 90 to 99 percent, it could make voice control practical for relatively simple electronic devices.

Azorobotics: 2017-02-14 - MEMS technology

UCI Researchers Introduce 3D Printed Microfluidics Platform

A few weeks ago, researchers from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of California, Irvine, introduced a paper focusing on an innovative Lego-based modular microfluidics platform designed with 3D printed molds. Complex microfluidics ...

3dprint: 2017-02-14 - MEMS technology

This tiny camera on a needle could enable safer brain surgeries

A team of researchers at the Center for Nanoscale BioPhotonics at the University of Adelaide in Australia have developed a brain biopsy needle with a tiny camera attached to the end to make brain surgery safer. When performing surgery on a brain tumor ...

MassDevice: 2017-02-15 - MEMS technology

MEMS business

Dolomite unveils 3D printer for sealed microfluidics

Microfluidics company Dolomite, unveiled the first commercially available 3D printer for sealed microfluidics at MD&M West last week. The company’s Fluidic Factory, which utilises cyclic olefin copolymer (COC) from Topas Advanced polymers was ...

medicalplasticsnews.com: 2017-02-13 - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

New catalyst that can split water into hydrogen almost as good as platinum, but less costly

As described in the journal Nature Nanotechnology ("An efficient and pH-universal ruthenium-based catalyst for the hydrogen evolution reaction"), this ruthenium (Ru)-based material works almost as efficient as platinum and likely shows the highest ...

Nano werk: 2017-02-15 - Nanotechnology

Will your next spectacles have METAL lenses? Harvard researchers reveal radical new material that could replace glass in everything from phones to eyewear

The team that developed the nanomaterial announced their first version of it during the summer of 2016 - but that lens could focus only one color at a time. So if it were used in a camera, it could only take photos in one color at a time. But the ...

Daily Mail: 2017-02-08 - Nanotechnology

Using 'Scotch tape' and laser beams, researchers craft new material that could improve LED screens

A cover story appearing in the peer-reviewed journal Nanoscale Horizons reports a new bilayer material, with each layer measuring less than one nanometer in thickness, that someday could lead to more efficient and versatile light emission. Researchers ...

Science Daily: 2017-02-15 - Nanotechnology

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Event Calendar

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
ADAS Sensors 2017 2017-05-17 - 2017-05-18 Detroit, Michigan Annual Conference & Exhibition
ASE 2017 2017-06-14 - 2017-06-15 Detroit, Michigan Automotive Sensors and Electronics Expo
Transducers 2017 2017-06-18 - 2017-06-22 Kaohsiung, Taiwan The 19th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems
Sensors Expo and Conference 2017 2017-06-27 - 2017-06-29 San Jose CA
MEMS Testing & Reliability 2017 2017-08-01 Santa Clara, CA Workshop and Exhibition
MEMS Manufacturing 2017 2017-08-02 - 2017-08-03 Santa Clara, CA Annual Conference and Exhibition