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MEMS technology
 Lawrence Livermore researchers explore ‘sentient’ materials with 3D printing
- It’s a revolutionary new approach for making these materials at the micro-scale.” (Figure a) A macro-scale mechanical logic gate 3D printed with Stratasys F370. Image via Nature. The ...
3D Printing Industry: 2019-02-20 - MEMS technology
 Sensor developed to help autonomous vehicles steer through fog and dust
- and director of the Terahertz Integrated Electronics Group in the MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL). “Our low-cost, on-chip sub-terahertz sensors will play a complementary role to LiDAR for when the environment is rough.” Joining Han on ...
Control Engineering: 2019-02-19 - MEMS technology
 Nanoscale MEMS Resonator Structure Yields Controllable MHz-Range Filter, Isolator
- As electronic devices shrink, there’s an increasing need for on-chip high-performance functions such as unidirectional waveguides (isolators), filters, and delay lines, especially those with key parameters that can be controlled on chip. A team of ...
Electronic Design: 2019-02-21 - MEMS technology
 Power over Wi-Fi: The end of IoT sensor batteries?
- says Tomás Palacios, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and director of the MIT/MTL Center for Graphene Devices and 2D Systems in the Microsystems Technology Laboratories, in an article in MIT News. Palacios says ...
Network World: 2019-02-21 - MEMS technology
 Engineers develop placenta-on-a-chip to study caffeine transport from mother to fetus
- "I am interested in microfluidics and I've been excited about using the technology to understand what happens in the cellular environment and within the body," said Nicole Hashemi, an associate ...
Medical Xpress: 2019-02-19 - MEMS technology
 Pushing boundaries of silicon-based electronics
- ScAlN is a piezoelectric semiconductor material with a high dielectric strength which is largely unexplored worldwide with regard of its usability in microelectronic applications. “ScAlN is especially well suited for power electronic components due to ...
New Electronics: 2019-02-18 - MEMS technology
 Autonomous Vehicle Timing Means MEMS
- Engineering is always about trade-offs, but autonomous vehicles are pushing that to the limit with conflicting requirements. One common thread runs through all of these requirements, and it’s one we usually take for granted: timing. In order for ...
ecnmag: 2019-02-21 - MEMS technology
MEMS business
 Casio Watch Gets a MEMS Oscillator Upgrade
- We’ve got to admit to being a bit of a Casio G-Shock watch geek. The big, chunky watches were every day carry items that survived everything we dished out, right up until the smartphone made ...
Hackaday: 2019-02-20 - MEMS business
Nanotechnology
 Breakthrough in the Search for Graphene-Based Electronics
- For 15 years, scientists have tried to exploit the "miracle material" graphene to produce nanoscale electronics. On paper, graphene should be great for just that: it is ultra-thin—only one atom thick and therefore two-dimensional, it is excellent for ...
ecnmag: 2019-02-20 - Nanotechnology
 The Future of Medicine is at the Nanoscale
- Personalized healthcare is the Holy Grail of medicine—the idea that every illness or disease can be treated on an individual basis for each patient, with medicines, drugs and treatments designed for each person’s biology to be optimally successful.
Engineering: 2019-02-15 - Nanotechnology
 Big Data at the Atomic Scale: New Detector Reaches New Frontier in Speed
- Advances in electron microscopy – using electrons as imaging tools to see things well beyond the reach of conventional microscopes that use light – have opened up a new window into the nanoscale world and brought a wide range of samples into focus as ...
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: 2019-02-21 - Nanotechnology
 3-D printed nanomaterial shows different transparencies and colours
- The same 3D printed dichroic nanomaterial shows different colours and opacities when the light is from the same side of the observer (reflection) or on the opposite side (transmission). Credit ...
Phys.org: 2019-02-15 - Nanotechnology
 New technique enables nanoscale patterns to be cut in graphene without compromising its electrical properties
- Graphene researchers claim to have devised a novel technique to carve out the material to nanoscale dimensions without destroying its electrical properties. According to the researchers, the new method enables 100 to 1000 times more electrical current to ...
Computing: 2019-02-20 - Nanotechnology
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