MEMS Express from MNX

MEMS technology

Deeper Patterns and Easier Process Comes with New Etching Technique

Now researchers at Argonne Center for Nanoscale Materials and Energy Systems Division have published two studies on a technique they have developed called sequential infiltration synthesis (SIS), which builds on long-standing lithography techniques but ...

2011-08-19 IEEE Spectrum - MEMS technology

Ultra-low-power readout architecture for MEMS/NEMS sensors

(Nanowerk News) Imec and Holst Centre report an ultralow-power readout ASIC for capacitive MEMS/NEMS-based sensors. The system can read both accelerometers and strain sensors in a half-bridge configuration. The gain is controlled by integrating pulses ...

today Nanowerk LLC - MEMS technology

Electrodeposition moving to ever smaller dimensions

... interconnects between the chips in a vertical 3D stack. These have dimensions in the range of microns (diameters of 2–10µm and depths of 50–100 µm). For damascene-type structures, Cu interconnects are formed as contacts between various CMOS layers. ...

today Nanowerk LLC - MEMS technology

MEMS business

Rudolph Technologies, Inc. to Participate in the Morgan Stanley 2011 ...

Rudolph provides a full-fab solution through its families of proprietary products that provide critical yield-enhancing information, enabling microelectronic device manufacturers to drive down the costs and time to market of their products. ...

today MarketWatch (press release) - MEMS business

STMicroelectronics to Demonstrate MEMS Innovations at MICROTech World 2011

By Cameron Chai A supplier of MEMS devices for portable and consumer applications, STMicroelectronics will be demonstrating its newest advancements in MEMS for portable and consumer, healthcare, and automotive applications from August 24 to 26 at ...

2011-08-20 AZoNano.com - MEMS business

Samsung samples 30nm, 32GB DDR3 RDIMMs

The new 32GB RDIMM with 3D TSV package technology is based on Samsung's 30nm-class four gigabit (Gb) DDR3. It can transmit at speeds of up to 1333 megabits per second (Mbps), a 70 percent gain over preceding quad-rank 32GB RDIMMs with operational ...

2011-08-19 EE Times - MEMS business

Leica and Visiopharm Create Integrated Digital Pathology Solution

Leica Microsystems, world-leading providers of Total Digital Pathology solutions, and Visiopharm the leading provider of Histoinformatics Solutions for Life-Sciences, today announce the completed integration of Leica's SlidePath Digital Image Hub with ...

yesterday AZoOptics.com (press release) - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Microscope Can See in Nano-Detail Using Algorithm Like Hubble Telescope's

By Leigh Page | August 22, 2011 A new microscope can see details at the nanoscale by combining X-rays and an algorithm similar to one used to sharpen images from the Hubble Space Telescope, according to a UC San Diego news release. ...

today Becker's ASC Review - Nanotechnology

Etch-a-sketch with superconductors

(Nanowerk News) Reporting in Nature Materials this week ("Evolution and control of oxygen order in a cuprate superconductor"), researchers from the London Centre for Nanotechnology and the Physics Department of Sapienza University of Rome have ...

today Nanowerk LLC - Nanotechnology

Can Nanotechnology Improve Lithium-ion Batteries to Make a Difference for ...

Just so it's clear, I am all in favor of EVs and for having them replace vehicles powered by internal combustion engines, but it just is not clear that Li-ion batteries with incremental improvements brought on by nanotechnology will be the power source ...

today IEEE Spectrum - Nanotechnology

Seeing the world of nanotechnology from a single-molecule perspective

This is the reason for the widespread scientific interest in nanotechnology over the past ten years, and the origin of the expectations for a nanotechnology revolution. “These expectations, however, are now on the point of fading because the findings ...

2011-08-19 R & D Magazine - Nanotechnology

Summer students present first results on 'nanoscale origami'

These internships coincide with the announcement of a scientific story on nanoscale origami that has resulted from the internship of the first JHU visiting student in the summer of 2009 with a follow-on program last year. In this work, an approach is ...

today Nanowerk LLC - Nanotechnology

New Methods in Tiny Technology

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Cambridge, have recently devised a new method of creating nanoscale structures, which they say is cheap enough to be scaled up for practical applications. This technology is anticipated ...

today The Future of Things - Nanotechnology

Current density protocol compares biosensor performance

Their protocol takes into account both the active area available for transduction following deposition of the nanomaterial and the sensitivity of the device. The current density is defined as K = i/A, where K is the current density, ...

today nanotechweb.org - Nanotechnology

Nanotech business

Mail Bombings Target Nanotechnologists

The targets, The Chronicle reports, are nanotechnology experts. This month, two professors at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education were injured when a package exploded in their office. Experts have compared the group claiming ...

yesterday Village Voice (blog) - Nanotech business

'Green nanotechnology' vision is now a roadmap for development

That roadmap has grown up and is now in front of chemistry leaders worldwide with the publication of "Green Nanotechnology Challenges and Opportunities." The new "white paper" on the potential of incorporating benign chemistry practices was co-written ...

today Nanowerk LLC - Nanotech business

Featured Event

Hear the latest MEMs research at the MOEMS-MEMS symposium at SPIE Photonics West. With over 19,000 attendees Photonics West is the largest photonics and laser event in North America. Plan to attend the event, 21 - 26 January 2012 at The Moscone Center in San Francisco, California, and hear cutting-edge conferences, experience industry-leading courses, and see over 1,150 companies at the exhibition.

Event Calendar

New Prototyping Technologies Reduce Time to Market 2011-08-25 Webinar - 11:30 AM ET, 8:30 AM PT
COMS 2011 2011-08-28 - 2011-08-31 Greensboro NC Commercialization of Micro - Nano Systems Visit MNX at this event.
MicroTAS 2011 2011-10-02 - 2011-10-06 Seattle, Washington The 15th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences
SENSORS Tech Forum '11 Boston 2011-10-10 - 2011-10-12 Boston, MA NASA Tech Briefs Presents SENSORS Tech Forum
MEMS in Motion Collaboration Summit 2011-10-12 - 2011-10-13 Palm Springs, CA It's not who you know today. It's who you're going to need to know tomorrow.
MEMS Testing and Reliability Conference 2011-10-20 San Jose CA Increase yields, decrease waste and increase profitability for your company
MEMS Executive Congress 2011 2011-11-02 - 2011-11-03 Monterey, CA Connecting the MEMS supply chain with MEMS end-users Visit MNX at this event.
American Manufacturing Strategies Summit 2011 2011-11-07 - 2011-11-08 Chicago IL Network with 150 + senior level manufacturing professionals from many disciplines.
SPIE Photonics West 2012 2012-01-21 - 2012-01-26 San Francisco CA The world's leading photonics, laser, and biomedical optics conference
IEEE MEMS 2012 2012-01-29 - 2012-02-02 Paris, France Focus on Strategies for Reducing Time and Cost of MEMS Testing
MEMS Executive Congress 2012 2012-03-20 Zurich, Switzerland MEMS Industry Group event co-located with Smart Systems Integration
Hilton Head Workshop 2012 2012-06-03 - 2012-06-07 Hilton Head Island, SC A Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Workshop