MEMS technology

New microfluidics device detects malignant multiple myeloma cells in blood

As recently reported in the journal Microfluidics, researchers at the American Institute of Physics have developed a new device that can detect and filter cCPCs from small blood samples. The filtering device is able to isolate malignant plasma cells from healthy ones based on the principals of microfluidics. The team designed tiny pillars in ...

News Medical: 2019-11-19 - MEMS technology

Microplasma direct writing for site-selective surface functionalization of carbon microelectrodes

Carbon micro- and nanoelectrodes fabricated by carbon microelectromechanical systems (carbon MEMS) are increasingly used in various biosensors and supercapacitor applications. Surface modification of as-produced carbon electrodes with oxygen functional groups is sometimes necessary for biofunctionalization or to improve electrochemical properties.

Nature: 2019-11-17 - MEMS technology

MEMS business

EV Group and DELO to develop wafer-level optics, nano lithography

EV Group, a developer of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, is partnering with DELO, amanufacturer of industrial adhesives, specified for wafer-level optics. The partners are combining efforts to "enable novel optical devices and applications, such as biometric authentication and ...

Optics: 2019-11-18 - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Kick-starting Moore's Law? New 'synthetic' method for making microchips could help

The findings are described in a paper published today in Nature Nanotechnology. "Having a method to sculpt crystals at the nanoscale precisely, quickly, and without the need for traditional top-down processes, presents major advantages for widespread utilization of nanomaterials in technology applications," said Thomas J. Kempa, a chemistry ...

Phys.org: 2019-11-18 - Nanotechnology

This super-slippery toilet coating saves water by repelling poop

“It’s this combination of the water and the micro-scale roughness that causes the surface to become so slippery,” says Tak-Sing Wong, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering and one of the authors of a new paper about the technology published today in Nature Sustainability. [Photo: Wong Laboratory for ...

Fast Company: 2019-11-18 - Nanotechnology

Switching Light at the Nanoscale (video)

This animation depicts the operation of a fast, efficient optical switch built by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues. Disclaimer: AAAS ...

EurekAlert!: 2019-11-14 - Nanotechnology

Featured Event

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