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MEMS technology

The phone's compass, microphone, and clock all use these tiny machines, called microelectromechanical systems, or MEMS. Some are even small enough to be called nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS). MEMS are tiny mechanical machines, usually ...

yesterday Phys.Org - MEMS technology

Tiny Detectors Sniff Out Chemical, Biological Threats

In the late 1990s, Sandia developed a simple-to-use handheld chemical detector for the military, the MicroChemLab. Ever since, Sandia has improved such microfluidics- and microelectromechanical (MEMS) systems-based instruments that identify chemicals ...

yesterday Scientific Computing - MEMS technology

Remote Sensing of Surface Molecules

This has provided physicists with direct insight into how solids reconstruct at surfaces where the material abruptly ends, which is important, for instance, in the fabrication of microelectronic devices. Surfaces are the interfaces by which materials ...

yesterday Physics - MEMS technology

Reprogrammable microfluidic chips

In recent years, scientists from across of the globe have developed a plethora of microfluidic chips to perform a variety of tasks, from PCR to cell sorting. However, a serious drawback of microfluidic technologies is that each application requires a ...

yesterday Chemistry World - MEMS technology

"Even a single light bulb matters": A closer look at Cisco and NetApp's ...

The idea here is micro-electromechanical, biodegradable chips that you can scatter across arable land to detect light, temperature or chemicals, creating trillions of data points and helping farmers to extract better value from their crops. The joint ...

today ITProPortal - MEMS technology

LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES: GaN-on-GaN platform removes cost/performance ...

... replaced by a carrier substrate. This process adds unnecessary steps (wafer bonding and lift-off) and material (carrier), resulting in long wafer fabrication cycle times and high costs compared to the far simpler GaN-on-GaN approach using native ...

today Laser Focus world - MEMS technology

Haptic Optical Tweezers Let Us 'Feel' Microstructures

The ability to use touch as a tool will allow exploration, diagnosis and assembly of various types of elements — from sensors and microsystems to biomedical elements including cells, bacteria, viruses and proteins. These objects are fragile, and their ...

yesterday Photonics.com - MEMS technology

MEMS business

The Rising Star of Clinical Dx Industry

Microfluidic systems based on the lab-on-chip concept, along with increased biomarker discoveries of equipment, may witness a paradigm shift in the clinical diagnostics industry. Point-of-care molecular diagnostic testing is under development ...

yesterday Genetic Engineering News - MEMS business

Microfluidics and Electrodes for New Medical Devices Reach $9.5 Billion in 2022

BOSTON, MA, Sep 17, 2013 (Marketwired via COMTEX) -- With health care costs soaring at an unsustainable rate, providers are increasingly moving into a preventive mode, with an emphasis on screening and very early diagnostics. As a result, key sensor ...

today MarketWatch (press release) - MEMS business

Sensors Market for Automotive Applications worth $33.59 Billion by 2022

The future of automotive sensor is highly dependent on sensor technologies like MEMS sensor, wireless sensor, radar, and many more; out of which, the MEMS (Microelectromechanical Systems sensors) is the most promising sensor technology; and is likely ...

today PR Newswire UK (press release) - MEMS business

Aeris Communications Launches AerCloud to Create and Deliver Advanced ...

“We servecorporate clients in a wide range of industry sectors by connecting intelligent Micro Electro-Mechanical Sensors (MEMS) to remote assets, machines, facilities and processes to provide true real-time monitoring, control and analysis of events ...

today M2M World News (press release) - MEMS business

MEMS Maker Appoints NXP Veteran as CEO

Tronics Microsystems SA, a MEMS manufacturer headquartered in Grenoble, France, has appointed Pascal Langlois as CEO. Langlois succeeds Peter Pfluger, who is retiring after leading the company for 10 years. Tronics is a MEMS foundry that operates ...

today EE Times - MEMS business

MEMS market set for solid growth

The market for high value MEMS sensors is set to grow by 6.3% this year to £1.6billion, up from $1.5bn in 2012. Market research firm IHS described the performance as 'commendable', especially considering the depressed state of most markets in the ...

today New Electronics - MEMS business

Guest Blog – MEMS New Product Development, The Technology ...

After a functional A-sample prototype is built, it doesn't take long for a project to gain traction that has market pull. This is usually the point that a project becomes highly visible within a company and it enters the Technology Development Process. The TDP is made up of multiple phases including concept, prototype, pilot and production with gates at the end of each phase...

MEMS Industry Group yesterday - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

'Sticky tape' for water droplets mimics rose petal

(Phys.org) —A new nanostructured material with applications that could include reducing condensation in airplane cabins and enabling certain medical tests without the need for high tech laboratories has been developed by researchers at the University ...

today Phys.Org - Nanotechnology

New technology uses microfluidics and magnets for bioseparation

(Nanowerk News) Separating target molecules in biological samples is a critical part of diagnosing and detecting diseases. Usually the target and probe molecules are mixed and then separated in batch processes that require multiple pipetting, tube ...

today Nanowerk - Nanotechnology

Invention jet prints nanostructures with self-assembling material

Rogers and his associates report their findings in the September issue of Nature Nanotechnology. Combining jet printing with self-assembling block copolymers enabled the engineers to attain the much higher resolution, as suggested by lead author Serdar ...

yesterday Nanotechnology News (press release) - Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology team produces interconnects from multi-layer graphene

(Nanowerk News) Naoki Yokoyama, Shintaro Sato, Daiyu Kondo and co-workers of Collaborative Research Team Green Nanoelectronics Center (GNC), the Nanoelectronics Research Institute of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and ...

today Nanowerk - Nanotechnology

Study shows that people can detect nanoscale wrinkles with their finger tips

(Nanowerk News) In a ground-breaking study, Swedish scientists have shown that people can detect nano-scale wrinkles while running their fingers upon a seemingly smooth surface. The findings could lead such advances as touch screens for the visually ...

yesterday Nanowerk - Nanotechnology

Nanotech business

NNI Posts Report on Symposium on Assessing the Economic Impact of ...

The National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) has posted a report on its March 2012 international "Symposium on Assessing the Economic Impact of Nanotechnology." See http://www.oecd.org/sti/nano/Washington%20Symposium%20Report_final.pdf NNI ...

yesterday Nanotechnology News - Nanotech business

Featured Event

Automotive Sensors & Electronics Expo 2013

Currently, each vehicle has an average of 60-100 sensors on board. Because cars are rapidly getting "smarter" the number of sensors is projected to reach as many as 200 sensors per car by 2020. These numbers translate to approximately 22 billion sensors used in the automotive industry per year. This event will bring together leading experts in automotive sensors and electronics who will discuss business and technology issues, ongoing trends, and emerging applications.

Event Calendar

MEMS Industry Group Workshop: MEMS and Sensors 2013-09-19 University of Berkeley, CA Enablers for the Internet of Things
Automotive Sensors & Electronics Expo 2013 2013-10-09 Detroit, Michigan
Trillion Sensors Summit 2013-10-23 - 2013-10-25 Stanford, CA
AVS 60th International Symposium & Exhibition 2013-10-27 - 2013-11-01 Long Beach, CA
MicroTAS 2013 2013-10-27 - 2013-10-31 Freiburg, Germany The 17th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences
MIG MEMS Executive Congress U.S. 2013-11-07 - 2013-11-08 Napa, CA Meet your next customer at MEMS Executive Congress!
2013 3D ASIP 2013-12-11 - 2013-12-13 Burlingame, CA 3D Architectures for Semiconductor Integration and Packaging
The 27th International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems 2014-01-26 - 2014-01-30 San Francisco, CA
SPIE Photonics West 2014 2014-02-01 - 2014-02-06 San Francisco, CA
SPIE Advanced Lithography 2014 2014-02-23 - 2014-02-27 San Jose, CA