MEMS technology

DARPA's DREaM program aims to take next step in transistor technology

Dan Green, a program manager in DARPA’s Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) and the overseer of the DREaM program, says the goal is "that DREaM transistors will transmit and receive the large and complex RF signals of the future and they will do so in ...

mil-embedded.com: 2017-03-21 - MEMS technology

RoboPlants of the Future: MIT Engineers and Scientists Develop Tree on a Chip

The water keeps on flowing because of osmosis. This success on tree-on-chip technology is a huge leap for cheap complexity and microfluidics. This will enable engineers to create miniature robots that have complex parts. A huge obstacle in robotics is the ...

Counsel and Heal: 2017-03-23 - MEMS technology

NIST Impacts: Navigation through Timekeeping

NIST created a new atomic clock the size of a computer chip, eliminating the need for large microwave cavities, and adapted standard microfabrication techniques to develop an economically viable device. Building on NIST prototypes, commercialized chip ...

nist.gov: 2017-03-23 - MEMS technology

Organic silicon for medical devices

Anticorrosion Anticorrosion is becoming increasingly important in medical devices, particularly to protect small microelectronic circuit boards in hearing aids, intraocular devices, implantable sensors, and pacemakers. To protect electronics, HMDSO ...

todaysmedicaldevelopments.com: 2017-03-24 - MEMS technology

New Smart Phone Technology Could Help Men With Fertility Trouble

The new test utilizes the advancements in consumer electronics and microfabrication. One big limitation to the fertility test is that it can't detect deformed sperm, which can be critical to fertility. But Shafiee seemed skeptical of Medical Electronic ...

techknowbits.com: 2017-03-23 - MEMS technology

New low-cost fabrication technique could help incorporate optical sensing onto lab-on-a-chip devices

This created pinpoint areas of intense heat that could be used to etch the material with micro-scale resolution. The researchers next created PDMS with two different indices of refraction by carefully modifying the mixing and curing conditions of the material.

News-Medical: 2017-03-23 - MEMS technology

Micro-energy harvester for self-sustaining, integrated chip systems

The Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS is starting the two-year CONSIVA research project focusing on the development of micro-energy harvesters for self-sustaining, integrated chip systems. The use of novel piezoelectric materials in ...

energyharvestingjournal.com: 2017-03-20 - MEMS technology

Boosting the ability to detect superweak magnetic fields

AMBIIENT's program manager in DARPA's Microsystems Technology Office. "This gradiometric technique has worked well for applications in geophysical surveying and unexploded ordnance detection," Lutwak added, "but due to the combination of the sensors ...

Phys: 2017-03-21 - MEMS technology

MEMS business

Ongoing Sensor Work

I decided to do a series of articles on the various sensors that were presented. This was my intro to the world of sensors, and, since then, we have embraced sensors and MEMS as they have evolved into the bigger-picture internet-of-things (IoT) theme.

Electronic Engineering Journal: 2017-03-23 - MEMS business

Shanghai QST enjoys robust MEMS sensor shipments

MEMS sensor startup Shanghai Quality Sensor Technology (QST) saw its shipments jump five-fold in 2016 compared to the previous year, driven by the fast-growing market for accelerators, gyroscopes and other MEMS sensors, according to Joseph Xie, founder and ...

Digi Times: 2017-03-24 - MEMS business

MEMS: Improving Cost And Yield

MEMS devices inspire awe on the design side. On the test and manufacturing side, they evoke a different kind of reaction. These are, after all, the intersection of mechanical and electrical engineering—a joining of two miniature worlds that are the basis ...

semiengineering.com: 2017-03-17 - MEMS business

MEMS & Sensors Industry Group Tackles Technical Challenges at Annual Technical Congress

Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and sensors suppliers are targeting a rapidly growing global market for their devices, key components that increase the intelligence and interactivity of billions of electronic products. Despite this unprecedented ...

emsnow.com: 2017-03-23 - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Novel fabrication of diamond nanophotonics coupled to single-photon detectors

This work was performed in part at the Center for Nanoscale Systems (CNS), a member of the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network, which is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) award ECS-0335765. CNS is part of Harvard University.

SPIE: 2017-03-24 - Nanotechnology

Self-assembly of genetically encoded DNA-protein hybrid nanoscale shapes

A wide variety of DNA nanostructures have been assembled by folding long DNA single strands with short DNA staples. However, such structures typically need annealing at elevated temperatures in order to form. To accommodate the formation of such structures ...

science.sciencemag.org: 2017-03-24 - Nanotechnology

Watching the orbital angular momentum of plasmons on a nanoscale with subfemtosecond time resolution

A team of scientists has been able to reveal, for the first time, the dynamics of the orbital angular momentum of plasmons. The researchers used a combination of extremely high-quality single crystals of gold, ultrafast laser pulses and an electron microscope.

Science Daily: 2017-03-17 - Nanotechnology

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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
Napa Microsystems Workshop 2017 2017-08-21 - 2017-08-23 Napa, California The fourth workshop in the Transducers Research Foundation's Napa Institute Series
uTAS 2017 2017-10-22 - 2017-10-26 Savannah, Georgia The 21st International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences
IEEE Sensors 2017 2017-10-29 - 2017-11-01 Glasgow, Scotland, UK Sensor and sensor systems practitioners come together to interact and network with colleagues.
MEMS 2018 2018-01-21 - 2018-01-25 Belfast, Northern Ireland The 31st IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems