MEMS technology

Benefits of Using a Microfluidic Device

The key to microfluidics is that fluids in microliter quantities have an entirely different behavior compared to fluids on a macroscale. The applications of microfluidics is vast, ranging from early stage clinical analyses to the chemical syntheses of ...

News Medical: 2019-02-06 - MEMS technology

MEMS-Sprung Mirror Enables In-Path Laser-Power Measurement

Measuring laser power is a challenge. You can concentrate the energy on a sensor and measure the resultant temperature rise, or divert a known fraction of the beam power and gauge against that amount. For the first option, the laser must be switched ...

Electronic Design: 2019-02-05 - MEMS technology

New microfluidics platform separates cell types for RNA profiling

A team led by scientists at the Broad Institute, MIT, and Massachusetts General Hospital has developed a prototype device that uses microfluidics to sort cell types extracted from clinical samples ...

Medical Xpress: 2019-02-04 - MEMS technology

How does sensor packaging adapt for challenging applications?

At the device level, packaging for microelectromechanical (MEMS) sensors is often performed by an outsourced assembly and test (OSAT) company. The sensors could include accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers and microphones as well as pressure ...

Design World Online: 2019-02-07 - MEMS technology

A MEMS Device Harvests Vibrations to Power the IoT

Vibration-based energy harvesting has long promised to provide perpetual power for small electronic components such as tiny sensors used in monitoring systems. If this potential can be realized ...

IEEE Spectrum: 2019-02-04 - MEMS technology

MEMS business

SonicMEMS, a New Edge for Electronics

Lal is an expert on microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) — microscopic devices composed of components tens of nanometers to hundreds of micrometers in size. He and his group, SonicMEMS ...

Medium: 2019-02-04 - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Nanoscale guitar string ‘executes a complex dance’

A nano-sized guitar string vibrates and crackles in an unexpectedly organized and intricate way, according to researchers who devised a way to listen to a nanoscale guitar for the first time – and then played the Cornell alma mater on it. Cornell ...

Cornell Chronicle: 2019-02-04 - Nanotechnology

Hydrophobic or hydrophilic? Aero-gallium nitride is both

Researchers have made the first ever highly porous, mechanically flexible and stretchable inorganic nanomaterial that is both hydrophilic and hydrophobic at the same time. The material, which consists of interpenetrating hollow gallium nitride tetrapods ...

Physics World: 2019-02-06 - Nanotechnology

Graphene crinkles can be used as 'molecular zippers'

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] -- A decade ago, scientists noticed something very strange happening when buckyballs -- soccer ball shaped carbon molecules -- were dumped onto a certain type of multilayer graphene, a flat carbon nanomaterial.

EurekAlert!: 2019-01-31 - Nanotechnology

Research details sticky situations at the nanoscale

(Nanowerk News) Brown University researchers have made a discovery about the way things stick together at tiny scales that could be helpful in engineering micro- and nanoscale devices. In a series of papers, the latest of which is published in Scientific ...

Nanowerk: 2019-02-07 - Nanotechnology

Nanotech business

Russian nanotechnology giant may become minority shareholder in Tesla: source

The Russian nanotechnology company Rusnano may become minority stockholder in the US-based electrical vehicles and batteries producer Tesla controlled by Elon Musk. This may take place after Tesla completes acquisition of Maxwell Technologies from ...

Azer News: 2019-02-06 - Nanotech business

Featured Event

Event Calendar

FLEX & MSTC 2019 2019-02-18 - 2019-02-21 Monterey, California Flexible and Printed Electronics Conference & Exhibition and MEMS & Sensors Technical Congress
ADAS Sensors 2019 2019-03-20 - 2019-03-21 Detroit, Michigan 4th Annual Conference and Exhibition
Transducers 2019 - Eurosensors XXXlll 2019-06-23 - 2019-06-27 Berlin, Germany
IEEE MEMS 2020 2020-01-18 - 2020-01-22 Vancouver, Canada The 33rd International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems