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Modern Microfluidics via Lab-on-a Chip
There are two major design subfields in microfluidics—chip-in-a-lab and lab-on-a-chip. Chip-in-a-lab aims to shrink laboratory operations down to the microliter (or smaller) scale, mainly for the cost, time, and reagent savings. Lab-on-a-chip tries to ...
today Genetic Engineering News - MEMS technology
thumbnailElectronic skin - a primer
Many groups have turned to polymer micromachining, which is more cost effective and provides flexible devices. Polymer micromachining typically involves using photolithography or molding to pattern device structures, such as air gaps for capacitive ...
today Nanowerk - MEMS technology
thumbnailUltrashort laser deposition enables thinner films and lower material costs
Precious metals like gold and platinum are finding more and more industrial applications in memory storage, energy harvesting, energy storage, and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) applications. Traditional production methods for thin gold films ...
today Industrial Laser Solutions Magazine - MEMS technology
Revisiting quantum effects in MEMS
Micro- and nano-electromechanical devices, referred to as MEMS and NEMS, are ubiquitous. These nanoscale machines with movable parts are used, for example, to trigger cars' airbags following a shock. They can also be found in smartphones, allowing ...
today Nanowerk - MEMS technology
WiSpry integrates three tunable RF-MEMS capacitors in single chip
IRVINE, USA: WiSpry, Inc., the leader in high-performance tunable radio frequency (RF) semiconductor products for the wireless industry, today announced the WS1050 tunable RF capacitor, combining three individually controllable and configurable ...
yesterday CIOL - MEMS technology
Leak Testing Techniques and Trends
The advances in nanotechnology and Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS) are sure to throw up more challenges with very tight test specifications and difficult to handle products for which a step change in technology may be required. Watch this space ...
yesterday Quality Magazine - MEMS technology
New laser welding process holds potential for medical uses
Tampere, Finland - Primoceler, a microfabrication developer, has created what it calls the world's first sapphire-to-sapphire laser welding process that can be used in the manufacture of sensors, lenses and many other devices. The cost-effectiveness ...
today Industrial Laser Solutions Magazine - MEMS technology
CREOL researchers create integrated optical lithium-niobate-on-silicon devices
The films themselves may have applications other than photonics (microelectromechanical systems, microwave filters for cell phones, and piezoelectric transducers, to name a few). For now, Fathpour's group is more focused on demonstrating basic ...
today Laser Focus world - MEMS technology
Dedicated Non-Contact MEMS Analysis Tool Released by Ardic Instruments
Ardic Instruments have launched the M150 MEMS Analyzer, an award-winning non-contact tool designed to analyze resonant frequencies in MEMS-based sensors from 1Hz to 4.2MHz in just 60 seconds. The M150 captures the resonant frequencies of MEMS ...
yesterday AZoSensors - MEMS technology

MEMS business

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: "MEMS Industry Group's ...
Home > Press > MEMS Industry Group's Annual Executive Conference Shows Why MEMS Is Growing 2x Faster Than Semiconductors: MEMS Executive Congress US 2013 Sets Attendance Record, Honors 'MEMS Innovation' ...
today - MEMS business
Apple spurs massive growth in fingerprint sensor market
This is a familiar pattern in the smartphone and tablet markets, where Apple has spurred major market growth for technologies including touch screens, motion sensors and microelectromechanical system (MEMS) microphones. New fingerprint-enabled ...
2013-11-13 evertiq.com - MEMS business
Eight hot device technologies that will shape medical plastics
This is a microfluidics device that integrates laboratory functions on a single chip of only millimeters in size. This could be a big opportunity for injection molded biodegradable chips made from polylactic-co-glycolic acid (PLGA). Home care/mobility ...
today Plastics Today - MEMS business
thumbnailMEMS Makers Want to Put Even More Sensors in Smartphones for Total ...
That's according to sensor industry leaders attending the MEMS Executive Congress held this month in Napa, Calif. Of course, they would be expected to argue for more sensors in phones—their companies sell sensors, after all—but they made did make a ...
today IEEE Spectrum - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

thumbnailInvisible Printed Electronics Using Carbon Nanotubes
Researchers at the UCLA incubator startup, Aneeve Nanotechnologies, have demonstrated the first fully printed and invisible electronics using carbon nanotubes. Such a demonstration aims to propel the momentum in innovating invisible (transparent) ...
yesterday Nanotechnology News (press release) - Nanotechnology
thumbnailImperfections in 2D Materials Lead to Nanoscale Magnets
The grain boundaries force atoms out of their hexagonal patterns (left) and keep electron spins from canceling each other out, creating nanoscale magnetic fields (right, in blue) in the process. Image by Zhuhua Zhang. Calculations by the lab of Rice ...
yesterday AZoNano.com - Nanotechnology
thumbnailSuperfluidity Exists at Nanoscale
Scientists at EPFL have provided the first experimental evidence of superfluidity at the nanoscale, shedding light on the fundamental basis of the phenomenon. Superfluidity refers to a state in which matter behaves like a liquid with zero viscosity ...
2013-11-13 Laboratory Equipment - Nanotechnology
thumbnailNoninvasive Device with Multilayer Nanotechnology Helps Monitor Blood ...
A novel hand-held, noninvasive monitoring device that uses multilayer nanotechnology to detect acetone has been shown to correlate with blood-glucose levels in the breath of diabetics. This research is being presented at the 2013 American Association ...
2013-11-13 AZoNano.com - Nanotechnology

Featured Event

SPIE MOEMS-MEMS
Attend SPIE MOEMS-MEMS 2014, part of SPIE Photonics West, on the latest optical MEMS, biomedical MEMS and sensors, microfluidics, MEMS, MOEMS, micro-optics, adaptive optics research. This conference explores how MEMS and MOEMS will enable the mass-produced miniaturized products and integrated systems of the future. Learn more at: http://spie.org.

Event Calendar

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
The 9th Annual IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems
2014-04-13 - 2014-04-16
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
MEMS Industry Group Conference
2014-04-24
Tokyo, Japan
The Global MEMS Supply Chain
MIG M2M Forum 2014
2014-05-20 - 2014-05-21
Berkeley, CA
The MEMS Supply Chain - It Takes a Village

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