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MEMS technology
 Imec Fabricates Poly-SiGe Piezoresistive Pressure Sensor above Cu-Backend CMOS
- Above, the MEMS layers (the poly-SiGe membrane and piezoresistors, the oxide sealing layer and the metal interconnects) are visible. When compared to poly-Si, polycrystalline SiGe holds more promise as a MEMS structural material. ...
today AZoSensors - MEMS technology
 Deformable-mirror MEMS improve glaucoma research
- The University of Houston College of Optometry (Houston, TX) is using MEMS-based deformable mirrors, Multi-DM, from Boston Micromachines Corporation (BMC; Cambridge, MA) in glaucoma research. The mirror package, with 140 actuators and low ...
today BioOptics World - MEMS technology
MEMS business
- element14 launches Asia-Pacific microsites targeting key technology segments
- The Sensing microsite focuses on a sector that is experiencing significant growth with the advent of innovative micro-machining, device miniaturisation, fabrication and packaging technologies. With over 4000 industrial, PCB level and MEMS-based sensors ...
today Interconnectionworld - MEMS business
 Researchers Develop Wireless Window Contacts to Assist Building Owners
- By Joel Scanlon The Researchers at the Duisburg located Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems IMS have developed a windows contact system that saves the house owners from their worries of proper closing of windows especially ...
today AZoBuild - MEMS business
- GE's New Pressure Sensor is First with New TERPS Technology
- In addition, the bulk micromachining of the silicon, a technology we have migrated from our advanced sensors business, greatly improves product delivery dates.” The new sensors operate in essentially the same way as an RPT sensor. ...
today Newswire Today (press release) - MEMS business
- Applying MEMS for Quality of Life « MEMSblog
- MEMS technology is enabling new biomedical applications that improve quality of life (QoL) in a variety of ways. Providing intelligent sensing and actuation — which can be combined with electronics processing “muscle”–like ...
MEMS Industry Group today - MEMS business
- Deshpande Center grants fuel MIT research teams
- A flexible paper thin, micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) array that can be used for sensing and actuation over large surfaces. - In hydraulic fracturing of gas shale, large quantities of highly saline water are produced... This project will develop ...
today Mass High Tech - MEMS business
 CES Expands Wireless Exhibits, Seminars
- MIG is the trade association responsible for advancing Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems, or MEMS, across global markets. · Mobile Payment Basics: How the Technology Works - This session will examine the different technologies including near field ...
today Twice - MEMS business
- Boston Micromachines MEMS Deformable Mirrors Used by Vision Scientists for ...
- About Boston Micromachines Corporation Founded in 1999, Boston Micromachines Corporation (BMC) is the leading provider of advanced microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)-based mirror products for use in commercial adaptive optics systems. ...
today MarketWatch (press release) - MEMS business
- Taiwan Semiconductor's Growing Relationship With Apple May Fuel Share Price
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing is one of five companies that will invest USD4.4 billion over five years to create a research and development hub for nanotechnology in Albany, NY. The project will create 6900 jobs, 2500 of which will be new ...
today Seeking Alpha - MEMS business
- Global Sensors Market to Reach US$76.7 Billion by 2017, According to New ...
- While micromachining enhanced the scope of sensor fabrication applications, nanotechnology and micro-electromechanical technology led to improvements in sensor development, design, and the production of inexpensive compact sensors. ...
today San Francisco Chronicle (press release) - MEMS business
 PSLV launches Megha-Tropiques atmospheric research satellite for India
- In addition, it will test a microelectromechanical inertial measurement unit. Wednesday's launch marked the PSLV's twentieth flight. The rocket flew in the PSLV-CA, or Core Alone, configuration, which is the lightest variant of the PSLV. ...
yesterday NASASpaceflight.com - MEMS business
 STMicroelectronics First to Use Through-Silicon Vias for Smaller and Smarter ...
- ... applications and the leading supplier of MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) for consumer and portable applications,(1) is the world's first manufacturer to have implemented Through-Silicon Via technology (TSV) in high-volume MEMS production. ...
yesterday MarketWatch (press release) - MEMS business
Nanotechnology
 Paul Allen: The Singularity Isn't Near
- Kurzweil, who is a bit more optimistic, envisions a future in which developments in medical nanotechnology will allow us to download a copy of our individual brains into these superhuman machines, leave our bodies behind, and, in a sense, live forever. ...
today Technology Review (blog) - Nanotechnology
 Borrowing from brightly-colored birds: Physicists develop lasers inspired by ...
- WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 -- Researchers at Yale University are studying how two types of nanoscale structures on the feathers of birds produce brilliant and distinctive colors. The researchers are hoping that by borrowing these nanoscale tricks from nature ...
today EurekAlert (press release) - Nanotechnology
 Engineering Hope: Using Nanotechnology To Beat Cancer
- KERA's Bill Zeeble reports on nanotechnology research at TCU aimed at new drug delivery methods that eliminate side effects. Valerie Oxford has been a Social Worker at Fort Worth's Moncrief Cancer Institute for18 years. She offers hope to patients ...
yesterday KERA - Nanotechnology
Nanotech business
 At the Solar Decathlon, the University of Maryland cleans up with "WaterShed"
- The Watershed house was designed as a micro-scale ecosystem, emulating the environment of the Chesapeake Bay watershed (which of course is located in Maryland). The plants at the Watershed are more than landscape, they are part of the house living ...
today ThomasNet Industrial News Room - Nanotech business
 Award-winning nanotechnology image
- (Nanowerk News) When Empa researchers receive prizes, it is usually to honour their scientific work. However, the photographs from the scanning electron microscope, taken by Siddhartha Pathak during his postdoctoral time at Empa in Thun, have already ...
today Nanowerk LLC - Nanotech business
- Research and Markets: Nanotoxicology: Materials & Methods
- Nanomaterial cell interactions: are current in vitro tests reliable? Cordula Hirsch, et al. Imaging methods for determining uptake and toxicity of carbon nanotubes in vitro and in vivo Hannah C Nerl, et al. Toxicological studies on silver ...
today Business Wire (press release) - Nanotech business
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Event Calendar
- Modeling and Simulation of Nano/Microsystems Contest
- 2011-08-29 - 2011-10-31
University of Michigan
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- IMAPS 2011 - Microelectronics Symposium
- 2011-10-09 - 2011-10-13
Long Beach CA
Bringing Together The Entire Microelectronics Supply Chain!
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- 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.
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- GSA Silicon Series
- 2011-10-20
Boston, MA
Investing in Motion: MEMS Inertial Sensors
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- MEMS Testing and Reliability Conference
- 2011-10-20
Santa Clara CA
Increase yields, decrease waste and increase profitability for your company
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- Technology Platform for Various MEMS Scanner Products
- 2011-10-20
Webinar - 11:30 AM ET, 8:30 AM PT
An Approach to Overcome MEMS Law
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- MEMS Executive Congress 2011
- 2011-11-02 - 2011-11-03
Monterey, CA
Connecting the MEMS supply chain with MEMS end-users
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- American Manufacturing Strategies Summit 2011
- 2011-11-07 - 2011-11-08
Chicago IL
Network with 150 + senior level manufacturing professionals from many disciplines.
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- 3-D Architectures for Semiconductor Integration and Packaging
- 2011-12-12 - 2011-12-14
Burlingame, California
Today's Manufacturing Advances, Tomorrow's Impact and Opportunity
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- SPIE Photonics West 2012
- 2012-01-21 - 2012-01-26
San Francisco CA
The world's leading photonics, laser, and biomedical optics conference
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- IEEE MEMS 2012
- 2012-01-29 - 2012-02-02
Paris, France
Focus on Strategies for Reducing Time and Cost of MEMS Testing
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- MEMS Executive Congress 2012
- 2012-03-20
Zurich, Switzerland
MEMS Industry Group event co-located with Smart Systems Integration
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- 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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- Sensors Expo & Conference 2012
- 2012-06-06 - 2012-06-07
Rosemont (Chicago) IL
Providing over 25 Years of Technical Innovation & Thought Leadership
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