MEMS technology

Predicting strength distributions of MEMS structures using flaw size and spatial density

The populations of flaws in individual layers of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) structures are determined and verified using a combination of specialized specimen geometry, recent probabilistic analysis, and topographic mapping. Strength distributions of notched and tensile bar specimens are analyzed assuming a single flaw population set ...

Nature: 2019-11-04 - MEMS technology

On the way to intelligent microrobots

Researchers have developed a micromachine that can perform different actions. First nanomagnets in the components of the microrobots are magnetically programmed and then the various movements are controlled by magnetic fields. Such machines, which are only a few tens of micrometers across, could be used, for example, in the human body to ...

Science Daily: 2019-11-06 - MEMS technology

Rapid Physical Prototyping of Microelectronic Systems Based on Incompatible Technologies (The case for silicon interposers)

Abstract—The market for Semiconductor Intellectual Property is well served for standard process technologies but not all functions are offered in all processes. Mixing and matching high performance digital CMOS, analog components, MEMS and optical ...

Design-Reuse: 2019-11-04 - MEMS technology

MEMS business

SiTime prepares for IPO -- MEMS timing solutions

SiTime, a supplier or MEMS timing, has launched a roadshow for the initial public offering of 4,300,000 shares of its common stock. The underwriters will also have a 30-day option to purchase up to 645,000 additional shares of common stock at the IPO price, less underwriting discounts and commissions. The IPO price is currently expected to be ...

BCW: 2019-11-08 - MEMS business

EV Group and DELO Partner to Expand Materials and Process Capabilities for Wafer-level Optics and Nanoimprint Lithography

ST. FLORIAN, Austria and WINDACH, Germany, Nov. 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, today announced that it is partnering with DELO, a leading manufacturer of industrial high-tech adhesives, in the area of wafer-level ...

WFMZ-TV: 2019-11-11 - MEMS business

10th Smartphone Model in Mass Production with NextInput Solution

NextInput, Inc., the leader in MEMS-based sensing solutions, announced today the tenth smartphone model with its technology is in mass production. The 10 models have shipped in millions of units world-wide, with half of them being flagships. In these phones, NextInput enables in-display functionality, including 3-D screen for an immersive ...

YAHOO!: 2019-11-13 - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

‘Tractor beam’ manipulates and fabricates at nanoscale

Additive manufacturing of nanoscale structures has been made possible with a so-called ‘tractor beam’ that manipulates and fabricates different materials. Focused laser light generates an optical ‘tractor beam,’ which can manipulate and orient ...

The Engineer: 2019-11-05 - Nanotechnology

3-D printing technique accelerates nanoscale fabrication

Using a new time-based method to control light from a laser, researchers have developed a nanoscale 3-D printing technique that can fabricate tiny structures a thousand times faster than conventional two-photon lithography (TPL) techniques without sacrificing resolution. Despite the high throughput, the new parallelized technique — known as ...

Control Engineering: 2019-11-02 - Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology breakthrough enables conversion of infrared light to energy

Invisible infrared light accounts for half of all solar radiation on the Earth's surface, yet ordinary solar energy systems have limited ability in converting it to power. A breakthrough in research at KTH could change that. "We have achieved a 10 percent increase in efficiency without yet optimizing the technology," Ågren says. "With a little ...

Phys.org: 2019-10-31 - Nanotechnology

Team uses golden 'lollipop' to observe elusive interference effect at the nanoscale

Masiello and Camden believed it would be possible to design and construct a system that would exhibit Fano interferences using nanoscale plasmonic components. But, creating this effect would require an extremely precise electron beam, in which the electrons all have approximately the same kinetic energy. The researchers teamed up with Juan ...

Phys.org: 2019-11-08 - Nanotechnology

Magnetic tuning at the nanoscale

In collaboration with colleagues from the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (IFW) and the University of Glasgow, physicists from the German research center Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) are working to produce engineered magnetic nanostructures and to tailor material properties at the nanoscale.

Phys.org: 2019-11-12 - Nanotechnology

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Event Calendar

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