MEMS technology

Vesper's MEMS Microphone Saves >10x More Battery for Voice-activated Systems

The inaugural member of Vesper's ZeroPower Listening™ MEMS microphone product line, VM1010 is a tiny, ultra-rugged piezoelectric MEMS microphone that allows product designers to offer touchless user interfaces to consumers, without any power-consumption ...

einpresswire.com: 2017-05-24 - MEMS technology

The making of a medical microchip

Few such tools require a clean room, but these ones depend on the ability of fluids to travel through channels so small that even one speck of dust could block them — a field of technology development called microfluidics. In theory, these assays ...

Nature: 2017-05-24 - MEMS technology

Measuring the Moisture Ingress of Microelectronics Packaging using Dynamic Vapor Sorption

Figure 1. Schematic of the ‘popcorn’ effect. This and other related moisture absorption issues have created the need for accelerated testing of microelectronic packaging systems to prevent major problems from occurring during the manufacture or during ...

AZOM: 2017-05-24 - MEMS technology

Dolomite Microfluidics’ Mitos P-Pumps enable reliable production of highly monodisperse droplets

Dolomite Microfluidics' Mitos P-Pumps are proving popular with customers around the globe. Designed specifically for microfluidic systems, this key enabling technology is ideally suited for the production of highly monodisperse droplets in a diverse array ...

manufacturingtomorrow.com: 2017-05-18 - MEMS technology

‘Venus flytrap’ soft robot gets a grip

But the device might find use in quality control during microfabrication, gripping and removing tiny objects that don’t reflect light as they should. The optical flytrap can currently clamp down on objects hundreds of times heavier than the elastomer ...

C&EN: 2017-05-23 - MEMS technology

MEMS business

SMTA, iNEMI, MEPTEC Seek Presenters for 2018 Medical Electronics Symposium

Other relevant topics include emerging technologies such as stretchable electronics, wireless body area networks, biosensors in novel applications and nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS). The abstract and presentation must be non-commercial in nature and ...

emsnow.com: 2017-05-24 - MEMS business

RF Filters to Drive MEMS Industry Growth

An increasing demand for RF filters is reshaping the MEMS industry, according to a new report from Yole Développement. RF MEMS filters will account for the largest MEMS growth, with a projected 35 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) over the ...

epsnews.com: 2017-05-22 - MEMS business

Reworking Established Nodes

Rethinking process flows There are other ways to cut costs at these older nodes. Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) devices, which are a combination of mechanical and electrical engineering, are a case in point. The problem in the MEMS market is that ...

semiengineering.com: 2017-05-24 - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Battery-free implantable medical device draws energy directly from human body

The new biosupercapacitor comprises a carbon nanomaterial called graphene layered with modified human proteins as an electrode, a conductor through which electricity from the energy harvester can enter or leave. The new platform could eventually also be ...

new-techeurope.com: 2017-05-24 - Nanotechnology

Graphene on silicon carbide can store energy

In addition, it is an excellent conductor of electricity. There are many ideas about how this nanomaterial can be used, and research into future applications is intense. "Graphene is fascinating, but extremely difficult to study," says Mikhail Vagin ...

Science Daily: 2017-05-23 - Nanotechnology

New 3D Printing Method From Nano-to-Microscale Creates Bio-Similar Materials

Washington State University researchers have developed a new 3D manufacturing method that can control a material’s architecture from the nanoscale to centimeters, allowing for the first time the production of large objects with a nanoscale architecture ...

Appliance Magazine: 2017-05-19 - Nanotechnology

Compelling evidence of ferroelasticity in perovskites

They also studied OIPs consisting of polycrystalline thin films, which were examined using nanoscale techniques. The researchers used two nanoscale methods employing atomic force microscope (AFM) probes to measure ferroelasticity in OIP thin films.

energyharvestingjournal.com: 2017-05-25 - Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology Helps Boost Performance of Key Industrial Catalyst

A tiny amount of squeezing or stretching can produce a big boost in an industrial catalyst known as ceria, according to a new Stanford study. To measure the impact of stress under real-world operating conditions, the researchers analyzed the ceria samples ...

today.lbl.gov: 2017-05-23 - Nanotechnology

New theory predicts wetted area of droplets colliding with flat surface

"Recently, nanoscale circuit fabrication technology for semiconductor substrates using inkjet technology has attracted much attention," said Tenure Track Assistant Professor Yukihiro Yonemoto of Kumamoto University, who leads the study. "Observations of ...

EurekAlert!: 2017-05-24 - Nanotechnology

Water is surprisingly ordered on the nanoscale

The method involves overlapping ultrashort laser pulses in a mixture of water droplets in liquid oil and detecting photons that are scattered only from the interface. Credit: © EPFL/Julia Jacobi Chair of Photomedicine - Laboratory for Fundamental ...

Phys: 2017-05-24 - Nanotechnology

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Event Calendar

2017FLEX Korea 2017-05-31 - 2017-06-01 Seoul, Korea A Practical Path to Flexible Hybrid Electronics
IMS 2017 2017-06-04 - 2017-06-09 Honolulu, Hawaii International Microwave Symposium
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
2017FLEX Monterey 2017-06-19 - 2017-06-22 Monterey, California Flexible Electronics - Accelerating to Manufacturing
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
European MEMS Summit 2017-09-20 - 2017-09-22 Grenoble, France MEMS with all Senses
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 & Sensors Executive Congress 2017-11-01 - 2017-11-02 Napa Valley, California Exchange ideas, engage with competitors, network and relax with colleagues
MEMS 2018 2018-01-21 - 2018-01-25 Belfast, Northern Ireland The 31st IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems