MEMS technology

3D time-of-flight MEMS-scanning camera from Fraunhofer improves robot vision

IMAGE: The optical scan head of a 3D ToF camera is shown with the Fraunhofer IPMS integrated MEMS scanning mirror array. (Image credit: Fraunhofer IPMS). Dresden, Germany--The Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (IPMS) has designed and ...

yesterday Laser Focus world - MEMS technology

Wearable, shareable and seamless technology

Third-party devices now have the ability to purchase and integrate low-cost microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), including accelerometers, gyroscopes, and magnetometers. In addition to fueling the market of wearables, the value of cheaper embedded ...

2014-01-17 Medical Marketing and Media - MEMS technology

Double-Layer Capping Solves Two Problems

Jae-Wung Lee and co-workers at the A*STAR Institute of Microelectronics, Singapore, are at the forefront of efforts to develop safe but functional encasements for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), such as sensors, switches or radio filters.

yesterday Science Daily (press release) - MEMS technology

Superconducting Spintronics Pave Way for Next-Generation Computing

The research, reported in Nature Communications, provides the first evidence that superconductors could be used as an energy-efficient source for so-called “spin-based” devices, which are already starting to appear in microelectronic circuits. Beyond ...

today Scientific Computing - MEMS technology

Frost & Sullivan: Sensor Technologies Becoming An Integral Part of Buildings

“The installation of devices using microelectromechanical systems and nanosensors can further help overcome these challenges and reduce overall costs.” Sensors for Energy Efficient Buildings and Building Management, a part of the Technical Insights ...

today TFM - MEMS technology

Mini Windmills Can Recharge Cell Phones

WinMEMS became interested in the micro-electro mechanical system research and started a relationship with UT Arlington. Company representatives visited with the UT Arlington team several times in 2013 to discuss collaboration. An agreement has been ...

2014-01-18 Controlled Environments Magazine - MEMS technology

Hydrocephalus: Sensors monitor cerebral pressure

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems IMS in Duisburg, working jointly with Christoph Miethke GmbH and Aesculap AG, engineered these sensors. Physicians can measure cerebral pressure with the aid of implanted ...

today Science Codex - MEMS technology

MEMS business

Will robots be the answer to our next manufacturing revolution?

Lithuania-based Ekspla, which makes rapid-pulse lasers, observed in a recent press release that "laser micromachining is rapidly becoming the material processing technology of choice for numerous small-scale, real-world applications. New advances in ...

today E&T magazine - MEMS business

MEMS Device Company, Motion Engine, to Continue Development of Motion ...

"We have chosen to settle in Quebec as it will clearly become an international center for the development of MEMS/microsystems and related software applications, especially in regard to motion-sensing enabled systems. A key enabler is the presence of a ...

today AZoNano.com - MEMS business

First MEMS display tablet due to arrive in six months, could it rival LCD and ...

LCD and AMOLED may be the current kings of the mobile display kingdom, but MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems) is a technology that could eventually supplant them both. Qualcomm is one of the biggest companies involved in the development of ...

2014-01-17 Android Authority - MEMS business

Guest Blogs MEMS Gains Momentum in China

China has become a global powerhouse for manufacturing every imaginable kind of product -- from motherboards, smartphones, and PCs to textiles and toys. But what of MEMS in China? I recently traveled to Shanghai, and did my level best to explore that ...

yesterday Design News - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Physicists discover way to engineer new properties on ultra-thin ...

We've finally found a way to systematically exert 'pressure' on this thin nanomaterial, which has only a few atomic layers, to enable new electronic and magnetic phases." An article detailing the finding, "Heterointerface ...

today - Nanotechnology

Asylum Research Announces Scanning Microwave Impedance Microscopy for ...

Asylum Research, an Oxford Instruments company, announces Scanning Microwave Impedance Microscopy (sMIM), an atomic force microscopy (AFM) technique that enables nanoscale mapping of permittivity and conductivity with unprecedented sensitivity ...

2014-01-18 Nanotechnology News (press release) - Nanotechnology

Pushing the thermal limits of nanoscale SQUIDs

Recently, there has been a global trend to develop ever smaller nanoscale SQUIDs with the ultimate goal to reach a sensitivity (which scales with the loop size) sufficient to detect the flip of one or more electron spins in close proximity. This goal ...

yesterday R & D Magazine - Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology to Help Recover Leftover Oil

“Nanotechnology is a generic technology with the potential for a wide variety of industrial applications,” says Aase Marie Hundere, Special Adviser at the Research Council and part of the NANO2021 program secretariat. “The petroleum industry is Norway ...

today Daily Fusion - Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology e-whiskers as tactile sensors for robotics

(Nanowerk News) From the world of nanotechnology we've gotten electronic skin, or e-skin, and electronic eye implants or e-eyes. Now we're on the verge of electronic whiskers. Researchers with Berkeley Lab and the University of California (UC) Berkeley ...

yesterday Nanowerk - Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology tools: DNA clamp to grab cancer before it develops

Their work could facilitate rapid screening of those diseases that have a genetic basis, such as cancer, and provide new tools for more advanced nanotechnology. The results of this research is published in the journal ACS Nano ("Thermodynamic basis for ...

yesterday Nanowerk - Nanotechnology

Staying cool in the nanoelectric universe by getting hot

To achieve their findings, the researchers fabricated nanoscale semiconductor devices in a state-of-the-art gallium arsenide crystal provided to UB by Sandia's Reno. The researchers then subjected the chip to a large voltage, squeezing an electrical ...

today UB News Center - Nanotechnology

Material of the future

"The question is whether we, as scientists, technologists and engineers, can take its amazing properties from the nanomaterial world to the level of macroscopic devices," he says. "And that's not graphene's challenge - it's ours." Graphene is not ...

yesterday Sydney Morning Herald - Nanotechnology

Using Plasma Etching on the Nanoscale

Started in January 2013, the European Framework 7 project 'SNM' has generated some remarkable results. At the Micro Nano Engineering conference (MNE 2013) held at Imperial College London in September, a full session was dedicated to the results of ...

yesterday Azom.com - Nanotechnology

Featured Event

Event Calendar

IEEE SF Bay Area MEMS Chapter 2014-01-22 Qualcomm Cafe, Santa Clara, CA 7:45pm Emergence of Trillion Sensors Movement
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
MEMS Executive Congress Europe 2014 2014-03-11 Munich, Germany
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
Design Automation Conference (DAC 2014) 2014-06-01 - 2014-06-05 San Francisco, CA
Sensors Expo & Conference 2014-06-24 - 2014-06-26 Rosemont, IL

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