MEMS technology

Reconfigurable open microfluidics for studying the spatiotemporal dynamics of paracrine signalling

The study of intercellular signalling networks requires organotypic microscale systems that facilitate the culture, conditioning and manipulation of cells. Here, we describe a reconfigurable microfluidic cell-culture system that facilitates the assembly of ...

Nature: 2019-08-19 - MEMS technology

New way to make micro-sensors may revolutionize future of electronics

The study finds a more reliable way to use actuators that control MEMS (microelectromechanical systems), which are microscopic devices with moving parts that are often produced in the same way as ...

Phys.org: 2019-08-21 - MEMS technology

Wearable skin sensors that analyze sweat

The scientists equipped the sensors with spiraling microscopic tubes, otherwise known as microfluidics, which wick sweat from the user's skin. The sensors track how quickly the sweat travels through the microfluidics, which is a measurement of how much a ...

GlobalSpec: 2019-08-19 - MEMS technology

Multi-foci laser microfabrication of 3D polymeric scaffolds for stem cell expansion in regenerative medicine

High quality large scale fabrication of cellular scaffolds, with three-dimensional resolution comparable to cell size, is an important task to enable regenerative medicine applications with stem cells. We are using two-photon polymerization to produce our ...

Nature: 2019-08-14 - MEMS technology

Rapid, low-cost method to 3D print microfluidic devices | IDTechEx Research Article

Microfluidics is the manipulation and study of sub-microscopic liters of fluids. Technologies that utilise microfluidics are found in many multidisciplinary fields ranging from engineering to biology. Experiments can be performed on a device roughly of the ...

IDTechEx: 2019-08-16 - MEMS technology

Mems optical phased array forms beams suitable for automotive lidar

Micromachining can be used to create a infra-red beam-forming phased array, according to engineers at University of California, Berkeley, who have made a 160 x 160 array on a 3.1 x 3.2mm die that can be switched in 5.7μs (resonance is at 55kHz).

Electronics Weekly: 2019-08-20 - MEMS technology

A laser-driven programmable non-contact transfer printing technique

Demonstrations in programmable transfer printing of micro-scale Si platelets and micro-scale LED chips onto various challenging flat or rough receivers (e.g., paper, steel sphere, leaf ...

Phys.org: 2019-08-19 - MEMS technology

MEMS business

Vesper Launches First Piezoelectric Digital MEMS VM3000 Microphone

BOSTON: Vesper, developer of the world's most advanced acoustic sensors, today introduced the VM3000, the latest piezoelectric MEMS microphone in its product line. The VM3000 is the first digital microphone in Vesper's portfolio and greatly expands the ...

New Kerala: 2019-08-16 - MEMS business

ULVAC PZT piezoelectric sputtering tool advances MEMS manufacturing

To do so, ULVAC uses a new low-temperature PZT thin-film process carried out at no more than 500 degrees C, as well as a proprietary process technology for applying a buffer layer, simultaneously achieving superior piezoelectric performance and high ...

Electronics Weekly: 2019-08-16 - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Quantitative nanoscale MRI with a wide field of view

Novel magnetic sensing modalities using quantum sensors or nanoscale probes have drastically improved the sensitivity and hence spatial resolution of nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) down to the nanoscale. Recent demonstrations of nuclear magnetic ...

Nature: 2019-08-21 - Nanotechnology

Tiny bottles create controlled release system to deliver chemo

Nanoscale silica bottles, a five-hundredth of the diameter of a hair, could be used to deliver cancer drugs to specific disease sites in the body, avoiding debilitating side effects. A study published by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology ...

In-PharmaTechnologist: 2019-08-20 - Nanotechnology

J-aggregate self-assembly on carbon nanotubes for new nanoscale devices

Novel self-assembly of resonant J-aggregates on carbon nanotubes with advanced features and high potential for versatile practical applications is discovered recently. Last decade, the nanoscale ...

Phys.org: 2019-08-19 - Nanotechnology

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MEMS & Imaging Sensors Summit 2019-09-25 - 2019-09-27 Grenoble, France The Premier Global Gathering for MEMS, Imaging & Sensors Stakeholders
Defense TechConnect Fall Conference & Expo 2019-10-08 - 2019-10-10 National Harbor, Maryland Converging the innovation ecosystem - military leadership, industry scouts, non-traditionals, startups, and investors
IEEE MEMS 2020 2020-01-18 - 2020-01-22 Vancouver, Canada The 33rd International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems
Hilton Head Workshop 2020 2020-05-31 - 2020-06-04 Hilton Head Island, South Carolina A Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Workshop