Advances in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) now allow nearly seamless integration of an array of sensors to collect information. Microcontrollers have shrunk to the point that they can be hidden away neatly and consume very little power. Wireless ...
The next steps for the team are to use microfabrication techniques to further miniaturize the device so that it fits on a chip and to improve its sensitivity. "We also plan to extend the frequency range of the devices from a megahertz domain to the ...
Xinchun Lu and colleagues explain that adhesion is a big concern when designing very small silicon-based machines called microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). Today, MEMS are in many consumer products, such as cell phones, tablets, car airbags ...
Former Sandia National Laboratories physicist Willis Whitfield will be honored posthumously by the National Inventors Hall of Fame in May for his cleanroom invention. In 2008, Whitfield posed outside a cleanroom at Sandia's Microsystems Engineering ...
Scientists have developed a new technique to fight cancer whereby chemotherapy medication can be safely released inside tumor cells without the healthy ones being harmed. The technique involves custom-designed nanoparticles carrying chemotherapy ...
