MEMS technology

These New Microbots Can Move Through Your Body With Magnets

For many operations, just one micromachine will not cut it. The task has been a perplexing one for many years, until now. Researchers recently published a paper describing a new magnetic system which can selectively control identical microbots which are ...

interestingengineering.com: 2017-02-23 - MEMS technology

Microfluidic LEGO Bricks

For the uninitiated, microfluidics is the study and manipulation of very small volumes of water, usually a millionth of a liter and smaller (nL-pL). Interestingly, the behavior of fluids at small scales differs greatly from its larger scale brethren in ...

hackaday.com: 2017-02-28 - MEMS technology

Innovative Multi-Layered Magnetic Material Behaves as an Electric Switch

This sort of externally controlled conducting behavior paves the way for applications in electronics using magnetic field sensors - which are utilized to read data on hard disk drives - microelectromechanical and biosensors systems (MEMS), as well as in ...

AZOM: 2017-02-28 - MEMS technology

The Tiny Robots Will See You Now

Now it’s time to pay homage to their teeny, tiny counterparts. It’s science-fiction-turned-reality: Researchers are developing micro- and nanoscale robots that move freely in the body, communicate with each other, perform jobs, and degrade when their ...

IEEE Spectrum: 2017-03-01 - MEMS technology

0˚ to 360˚ angle sensor ICs provide contactless information

Allegro MicroSystems Europe has introduced two new 0˚ to 360˚ angle sensor ICs that provide contactless high-resolution angular position information based on magnetic Circular Vertical Hall (CVH) technology. Allegro’s A1337 and A1338 devices have a SoC ...

electronicspecifier.com: 2017-03-01 - MEMS technology

Scientists at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology are building an electron microscope on a chip

The world's first miniature electron microscope MEMS, developed using silicon and glass micromachining techniques, is the goal of researchers at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology. It will be a portable device with the size of a few centimetres.

scienceinpoland.pap.pl: 2017-02-27 - MEMS technology

High-Accuracy Touchless Ultrasonic Sensing for Wearables

BARCELONA, Spain --- Chirp Microsystems unveils the first high-accuracy, ultra-low power ultrasonic sensing development platform for wearables. The new Chirp development platform — which leverages the company’s microelectromechanical systems (MEMS ...

sensorsmag.com: 2017-03-01 - MEMS technology

Using 3D printing instead of injection molding for fluid manifolds

Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) company is putting these accepted views to the test using Carbon’s CLIP technology and Cyanate Ester resin family. The CLIP process injects oxygen at a key point in the build, which inhibits the resin from curing too ...

makepartsfast.com: 2017-03-01 - MEMS technology

MEMS business

STMicroelectronics To Manufacture USound’s Patented Thin-Film Piezo-Electric MEMS Micro-Speaker Technology

STMicroelectronics and Austrian company USound GmbH announced their collaboration on the industrialization and production of the world’s first miniature piezoelectric MEMS actuators for smart audio systems in portable devices. The patented micro-speaker ...

circuitcellar.com: 2017-02-28 - MEMS business

Foundry Forms Semiconductors with GaN, GaAs, and InP

Fortunately, at least one semiconductor foundry is already established as a logical starting place for the design and development of millimeter-wave discrete devices and integrated circuits (ICs)—Northrop Grumman’s Microelectronic Products & Services ...

mwrf.com: 2017-02-27 - MEMS business

Sensor fusion: radar and MEMS microphones with audio processor for unmatched voice-recognition

Munich, Germany – February 28, 2017 – Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) and XMOS Ltd. partner to deliver a new building block for voice recognition. It features a combination of radar and silicon microphone sensors from Infineon and ...

Electronic Engineering Journal: 2017-03-01 - MEMS business

Chirp Microsystems Unveils First MEMS-Based Ultrasonic Sensor at Mobile World Congress 2017

Chirp Microsystems, the pioneer in low-power ultrasonic sensing solutions, today introduced at Mobile World Congress 2017 the first high-accuracy, ultra-low power ultrasonic sensing development platform for wearables. The new Chirp development platform ...

Azo Sensors: 2017-03-01 - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Cool Nanotechnology Keeps Cryopreserved Tissues Intact

Nanowarming (right) may offer a way to thaw cryogenically preserved tissues with less tissue damage than conventional (left) warming techniques. | Manuchehrabadi et al., Science Translational Medicine (2017) One of the major obstacles to transplant ...

aaas.org: 2017-03-01 - Nanotechnology

Nano 'sandwich' offers unique properties

Rice University researchers have modeled a nanoscale sandwich, the first in what they hope will become a molecular deli for materials scientists. Their recipe puts two slices of atom-thick graphene around nanoclusters of magnesium oxide that give the super ...

Science Daily: 2017-03-01 - Nanotechnology

Graphene battery technology set to upgrade new energy field

One Chinese company, Zhejiang Chilwee Power,‍ is using the nanomaterial to develop lead-acid batteries with longer battery lives, power performances and load capacities. Chilwee unveiled its latest generation battery using graphene on Sunday, promising a ...

ECNS: 2017-02-27 - Nanotechnology

Bioinspired process makes materials light, robust, programmable at nano- to macro-scale

With the new technique, centimeter-scale silicone molds were patterned with micro-scale features no thicker than a human hair. An aqueous fibroin protein gel derived from silkworm cocoons was injected into the molds and then mechanically stressed by ...

CHEMIE.DE Information Service GmbH: 2017-03-01 - Nanotechnology

Chiral Metamaterial Produces Record Optical Shift Under Incremental Power Modulation

“Nanoscale chiral structures offer an approach to modulating optical signals with relatively small variations in input power,” said Sean Rodrigues, a Ph.D. candidate who led the research in the laboratory of Associate Professor Wenshan Cai in Georgia ...

news.gatech.edu: 2017-03-01 - Nanotechnology

Controlling the stiffness of a material at the nanoscale

The atoms in a human-made material, bismuth iron oxide (BiFeO3, or BFO), composed of bismuth (blue balls), iron (red balls) and oxygen (green balls) can be shifted back and forth between a cube-like rhombohedral (R) and a rectangular prism or tetragonal (T ...

Phys: 2017-02-24 - 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
MEPTEC 2017 2017-06-06 San Jose, CA 15th Annual MEPTEC MEMS & Sensors Technology Symposium
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