MEMS technology

MIT Creates New Center for Graphene Devices & Systems

This interdepartmental center, part of the Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL), brings together MIT researchers and industrial partners to advance the science and engineering of graphene-based technologies. Graphene, a form of pure carbon ...

today PCBDesign007 - MEMS technology

Plasma FIB speeds failure analysis

ICP has been used previously for TSV deposition and etching systems, but using it as an ion-beam source in a FIB system is new, said Young. Not only are the volumes of material to be milled larger, but packaging and failure-analysis engineers are also ...

yesterday Test & Measurement World - MEMS technology

Transfection Practices Change with Times

Using semiconductor-chip fabrication techniques and microfluidics, his group accomplished the pulsing by varying the width of the channels (wide followed by narrow) through which cells flow. The field intensity experienced by the cells varies depending ...

today Genetic Engineering News - MEMS technology

Powering Gadgets a Step at a Time

University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have come up with a microfluidics technique that scavenges considerably more energy from human footfalls and converts it into electric power. Previous attempts to make energy-harvesting shoes have yielded ...

yesterday MIT Technology Review - MEMS technology

Microchip Sensor To Replace Scanning

"The microelectronic chip has a set of electrodes that detect oxygen saturation. It transmits this sensor data to an external receiving unit that's like a small box you carry around in your pocket," explains project manager Sven Becker. ...

yesterday MedIndia - MEMS technology

MEMS business

Smartphone politics by Nielsen: Google and Apple embroiled in fight for ...

Revenues for microelectromechanical systems in consumer electronics and mobile communications devices will grow 37 percent this year due to the rising popularity of tablets and smartphones, per this Consumer & Mobile MEMS Market Tracker report from IHS ...

today 9 to 5 Mac - MEMS business

Consumer and mobile MEMS to enjoy record growth in 2011, says IHS

Benefiting from its exposure to the hot tablet and smartphone and businesses, the market for MEMS in consumer electronics and mobile communications devices is set to generate record growth in 2011, according to IHS ...

today - MEMS business

Measurement Specialties Announces License Agreement With Sentelligence

MEAS uses multiple advanced technologies -- piezo-resistive silicon sensors, application-specific integrated circuits, micro-electromechanical systems ("MEMS"), piezoelectric polymers, foil strain gauges, force balance systems, fluid capacitive devices ...

today MarketWatch (press release) - MEMS business

CellGuide chooses Baolab MEMS-based compass for GPS

August 31, 2011 - WEBWIRE -- CellGuide selected Baolab's 3D NanoCompass IC technology as a companion to its location and positioning products, fully integrating GPS and compass functionalities in the CLIOX-C. Baolab's electronic 3-axis CMOS MEMS ...

yesterday ElectroIQ - MEMS business

MEMS market booms on back of tablets and mobiles

While the PC market bombs, the influx of shiny rectangles into people's homes has meant that the market for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) has rocketed. As well as the boom in tablets, the MEMS market has reached record levels with more of the ...

today TechEye - MEMS business

The Future of Mobile Display

This report provides quantitative prediction and qualitative analysis on the possibilities and values of technologies, including AMOLED, EPD, Quantum Dot and MEMS in a way to verify their effectiveness. Smartphones have been shaking the global mobile ...

today PR Newswire (press release) - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Nanowire transistors for analogue computing

The feature sizes in conventional microelectronic circuits are becoming ever smaller and will one day inevitably hit the limit imposed by the fundamental and technological properties of silicon. Nanostructures, such as carbon nanotubes or semiconductor ...

today nanotechweb.org - Nanotechnology

Tiny devices in tumors generate oxygen

(Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University) PURDUE (US) — Micro devices implanted inside tumors to generate oxygen boost the cancer-killing power of radiation and chemotherapy. The technology is designed to treat solid tumors that are hypoxic at ...

today Futurity: Research News - Nanotechnology

Building chips from collapsing nanopillars

The manufacture of nanoscale devices — the transistors in computer chips, the optics in communications chips, the mechanical systems in biosensors and in microfluidic and micromirror chips — still depends overwhelmingly on a technique known as ...

yesterday MIT News - Nanotechnology

Study shows potential for nanotechnology-based therapy for ovarian cancer

(PhysOrg.com) -- A UNC-led study has shown the potential for nanotechnology therapy for ovarian cancer. Scientists at UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and Duke University Medical Center conducted a preclinical study using nanoparticle ...

yesterday PhysOrg.com - Nanotechnology

Novel hydrogel-coated mesh is promising material for oil spill clean-ups

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Earlier this year, in the follow-up to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, we published a Nanowerk Spotlight on nanotechnology-based solutions for oil spills. Although the application of nanotechnology for oil ...

today Nanowerk LLC - Nanotechnology

The quantum tunneling effect leads electron transport in porphyrins

The importance of these molecules in the field of molecular electronics lies in their "ease of transfer electrons from one region to another" explains the responsible of the work at the Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology Research Center (a joint research ...

today EurekAlert (press release) - Nanotechnology

Featured Event

Event Calendar

Improving Performance of MEMS Designs Using Optical Characterization 2011-09-14 Webinar - 11:30 AM ET, 8:30 AM PT MEMS Education Series by MEMS Industry Group
BSAC Fall IAB Conference 2011-09-21 - 2011-09-23 University of CA, Berkeley Next 25 Years of MEMS - Come join us in Berkeley to Celebrate
Overview of Current State of MEMS Reliability and Test 2011-09-26 Webinar - 11:30 AM ET, 8:30 AM PT MEMS Education Series by MEMS Industry Group
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

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