MEMS Express from MNX

MEMS technology

Micro- and nano-electromechanical systems, MEMS and NEMS, have taken enormous steps in small-scale analytics and diagnostics and the associated term "lab-on-a-chip" has even diffused into the non-specialist vernacular. Miniaturised and novel components ...

yesterday spectroscopyNOW.com - MEMS technology

Alternatives to quartz: EW takes a look

However, silicon is not piezoelectric, nor as cheap as quartz, so the only way silicon resonators can economically compete with quartz is if the devices can be made in their thousands using micromachining on a chip production line. ...

yesterday ElectronicsWeekly.com - MEMS technology

Graphene transistors communicate with living cells

This means a direct interface between microelectronic devices and nerve cells – essentially the holy grail of cyborg-style integration of technology into the human body. This could lead to, for example, sensors inside a person's brain, ...

today TechEye - MEMS technology

MEMS business

Magnetic Sensors in Automotive Motors to Enjoy Brisk Growth

Given their capability to improve car safety, convenience and fuel efficiency, semiconductor magnetic sensors used in automotive motors will enjoy fast market growth with revenue expanding by nearly 40 percent in 2012, according to an IHS iSuppli MEMS ...

today PCB007 (press release) - MEMS business

Qualcomm acquires Pixtronix, Andover company developing tech for low-power ...

Pixtronix and Qualcomm had been pursuing different approaches to low-power displays, according to this 2009 New York Times piece, but both incorporated MEMS (microelectro-mechanical system) technology; in Pixtronix's case, thousands of tiny shutters ...

today Boston.com - MEMS business

Micromachining Leader Potomac Photonics Adds New Capabilities

Potomac Photonics is a leader in microfabrication. For more than three decades, it has helped clients develop miniature products and bring them to market with contact services spanning prototyping to production. Utilizing cutting-edge manufacturing ...

yesterday PR Leap (press release) - MEMS business

IDT Demonstrates World's First Commercial Piezoelectric MEMS ...

Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDT ® ) (NASDAQ:IDTI), the Analog and Digital Company™ delivering essential mixed-signal semiconductor solutions, today announced that it has developed and demonstrated the world's ...

yesterday - MEMS business

FEI acquires TILL Photonics

The 2000 employees of FEI provide electron- and ion-beam microscopes and solutions for nanoscale applications across many industries: industrial and academic materials research, life sciences, semiconductors, data storage, natural resources, and more. ...

today Laser Focus world - MEMS business

IBM to Produce Micron's Hybrid Memory Cube in Debut of First Commercial, 3D ...

IBM's advanced TSV chip-making process enables Micron's Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) to achieve speeds 15 times faster than today's technology. IBM will present the details of its TSV manufacturing breakthrough at the IEEE International Electron Devices ...

today Sacramento Bee - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Japanese researchers turn a crab shell transparent

An important application of the finding is demonstrated as heterogeneous micro-scale crab shell chitin particles are successfully used to process transparent nanocomposites. The incorporation of nanostructured chitin macro-particles not only retains ...

today PhysOrg.com - Nanotechnology

UCLA researchers demonstrate fully printed carbon nanotube transistor circuits ...

Aneeve Nanotechnologies LLC has been conducting proof-of-concept work at the tech incubator with the mission of developing superior, low-cost, high-performance electronics using nanotechnology solutions that bridge the gap between emerging and ...

yesterday EurekAlert (press release) - Nanotechnology

Scientists Discover Charge Density Waves on Surface of Graphene Sheets

By Cameron Chai A research team at the London Centre for Nanotechnology has for the first time found electronic stripes dubbed as 'charge density waves,' on the graphene sheet surface that produce a graphitic superconductor. ...

yesterday Azom.com - Nanotechnology

Chemical bonding between tectonic plates

But not everyone in the scientific community is convinced that nanoscale forces are relevant to enormous tectonic events, such as earthquakes. Two objects become harder to slide apart the longer they sit in contact, explains lead researcher Robert ...

today Chemistry World - Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology could make battery recycling economically attractive

"Most of the reported process for the recovery of metals from the spent batteries focuses on production of metal salts/oxides/ferrites," Akash Deep, a scientist in the Biomolecular Electronics and Nanotechnology Division at the Central Scientific ...

today Nanowerk LLC - Nanotechnology

Featured Publication

Academic and industrial research scientists and engineers, as well as students working in micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), commonly encounter a steep learning curve when developing common MEMS fabrication processes. A fundamental, comprehensive MEMS-focused reference book just published by Springer promises to be an important game-changing asset for the field.

The handbook is co-edited by Reza Ghodssi, Director of the Institute for Systems Research and Herbert Rabin Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, Md.; and Pinyen Lin, Chief Technologist and Vice President of Business Development, Touch Micro-System Technology Corp. Taoyuan, Taiwan. It features 35 international contributing authors who are MEMS leaders in academic, industrial and government laboratory settings.

The final chapter on Process Integration was written by MNX founder and director Dr. Michael Huff.

Event Calendar

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
2012 Consumer Electronics Association - MEMS TechZone 2012-01-10 - 2012-01-13 Las Vegas NV MEMS has an official home at CES
SPIE Photonics West 2012 2012-01-21 - 2012-01-26 San Francisco CA The world's leading photonics, laser, and biomedical optics conference Visit MNX at this event.
IEEE MEMS 2012 2012-01-29 - 2012-02-02 Paris, France Focus on Strategies for Reducing Time and Cost of MEMS Testing
MM / MEMS / NANO Live USA 2012-03-07 - 2012-03-08 Rosemont (Chicago) IL
MEMS Executive Congress 2012 2012-03-20 Zurich, Switzerland MEMS Industry Group event co-located with Smart Systems Integration
MicroManufacturing and NanoManufacturing 2012-03-28 - 2012-03-29 Boston, MA The Power of Connecting. Your Next Customer is Here!
Hilton Head Workshop 2012 2012-06-03 - 2012-06-07 Hilton Head Island, SC A Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Workshop Visit MNX at this event.
Sensors Expo & Conference 2012 2012-06-06 - 2012-06-07 Rosemont (Chicago) IL Providing over 25 Years of Technical Innovation & Thought Leadership
ACTUATOR 2012 2012-06-18 - 2012-06-20 Bremen, Germany International Conference and Exhibition on New Actuators and Drive Systems
TechConnect World Summit & Innovation Showcase 2012-06-18 - 2012-06-21 Santa Clara CA Increase your Innovation Pipeline!
SEMICON West 2012 2012-07-10 - 2012-07-12 San Francisco CA Connect to Buyers, Grow your Business!