MEMS technology

Using electricity and water, a new kind of motor can slide microrobots into motion

“At very small scales, you get a heater instead of a motor,” said Jakub Kedzierski, staff in MIT Lincoln Laboratory’s Chemical, Microsystem, and Nanoscale Technologies Group. Today, no motor exists that is both highly efficient and powerful at microsize

ScienceBlog: 2018-11-20 - MEMS technology

Tiny Optical Gyroscope Smaller Than a Grain of Rice

Traditional MEMS-based gyroscopes work by measuring the forces of two identical masses that are oscillating and moving in opposite directions. By contrast, the optical gyroscope that the Caltech team developed employs lasers rather than MEMS to achieve the ...

Engineering: 2018-11-19 - MEMS technology

Nanotechnology

A major step toward non-viral ocular gene therapy using laser and nanotechnology

Gold nanoparticles, which act like "nanolenses," concentrate the energy produced by the extremely short pulse of a femtosecond laser to create a nanoscale incision on the surface of the eye's ...

Phys.org: 2018-11-19 - Nanotechnology

Scientists produce 3D nanoscale chemical maps of single bacteria

(Nanowerk News) Scientists at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II)--a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility at DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory--have used ultrabright x-rays to image single bacteria with higher ...

Nanowerk: 2018-11-16 - Nanotechnology

Featured Event

Event Calendar

PowerMEMS 2018 2018-12-04 - 2018-12-07 Daytona Beach, FL
IEEE MEMS 2019 2019-01-27 - 2019-01-31 Seoul, Korea The 32nd International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems