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Advancements in Semiconductor Quantum Dots with Single-atom Precision
... and quantum information processing. However, the influence of microfabrication error becomes more serious as the manufactured device becomes smaller. Conventional lithography and self-assembling methods are problematic in the processing precision.
yesterday Converge Network Digest - MEMS technology
thumbnailNew Ion-Propulsion System Could Deliver Time Capsule to Mars
Each of the mission's three cubesats will contain 40 thruster pairs, which Lozano's team can make using micromachining techniques. Mars Myths & Misconceptions: Quiz. No planet is more steeped in myth and misconception than Mars. This quiz will reveal ...
2014-06-26 Space.com - MEMS technology
thumbnailKnowles Engineers Dramatically Reduce Power Consumption in Microphones
The engineers at Knowles Corporation (NYSE: KN) developed a new digital MEMS microphone with the lowest power consumption on the market. Ideal for consumer electronics, the new multi-mode MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) microphone ...
2014-06-26 SYS-CON Media (press release) - MEMS technology
Making New Brain Implants
GE is testing a variety of approaches for growing very thin electrodes on top of microchips, using its expertise in fabricating microelectromechanical devices (MEMs). The company thinks its experience with wireless medical devices and electronics could ...
2014-06-27 MIT Technology Review - MEMS technology
thumbnailNew Emotion Sensor Paves Way for Personalised Advertising and More: Study
Through use of microfabrication technology, Cho and colleagues built the sensor using a conductive polymer called PEDOT:PSS for the capacitors, which is flexible compared to brittle metallic conductive materials. The capacitors were embedded in a ...
2014-06-27 NDTV - MEMS technology
thumbnailMEMS Wafer Inspection System
Sonoscan has announced its AW322 200 fully automated system for ultrasonic inspection of MEMS wafers. Based on Sonoscan's C-SAM technology, the system images and identifies internal gap-type defects down to 5 micrometers in size. It is especially ...
2014-06-27 R & D Magazine - MEMS technology
thumbnailNathan Myhrvold's Recipe for a Better Oven
Another method would use tiny shutters made out of microelectromechanical systems or electrostatically actuated flaps. So oven designers could indeed create appliances that heat both faster and more evenly. But a fundamental problem with today's ovens ...
2014-06-27 IEEE Spectrum - MEMS technology
thumbnailKnowles ships multi-mode MEMS microphone
Knowles is shipping a digital MEMS microphone claimed to have the lowest power consumption on the market. Aimed at consumer electronics, the multi-mode MEMS microphone offers a high Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) within the low power mode, which ...
today ElectronicsWeekly.com - MEMS technology

MEMS business

thumbnailEV Group Clears Key Barriers To 3D-IC/TSV High-Volume Manufacturing With ...
Alignment is key for fusion-bonded 3D-ICs According to the 2012 edition of the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS), high-density TSV applications will require wafer bonding alignment accuracy of 500 nm (3 sigma) by 2015.
today MarketWatch - MEMS business
thumbnailmCube Looks to Disrupt the MEMS Industry
The applications for these little machines are numerous and include inkjet printheads, microfluidics, oscilators, projection systems, microphones, and microfluidics. With so many applications for MEMS, the market is growing rapidly and reached over $12 ...
yesterday Nanalyze - MEMS business
thumbnailHardware Security in the US-Indian Cyber Dialogue
If the U.S. model sheds any light on potential defense microelectronic trajectories in these two semiconductor plants, it might prove to be very little. Like U.S. semiconductor plants, India's proposed semiconductor plants will be run by private ...
yesterday The National Interest Online - MEMS business
Bosch: the world's top auto MEMS supplier
1 supplier in the world last year of automotive MEMS sensors, a market in which shipments continue to expand strongly but where revenue was being squeezed by marked price erosion. With revenue of USD 740 million, Bosch's total amounted to more than ...
2014-06-27 evertiq.com - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

thumbnailNanotechnology Assembles the Future
Nanotechnology is not a future science; it is a current assembly of different disciplines working to change how we live. The term nanotechnology itself is still not defined in any one way. The word and the science diverts in two different directions ...
yesterday Guardian Liberty Voice - Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology Is Breaking Down Walls in Smartphone Features
But gather a bunch of these tiny guys together and you could be enjoying the latest perks in technology, which are truly unbelievable. Nanotechnology is revolutionizing technology, especially what we will be able to do to use and protect our mobile ...
2014-06-28 Nanotechnology News - Nanotechnology
thumbnailWatching nanoscale fluids flow
This artistic rendering depicts fluid-filled nanotubes changing with time. Caltech researchers used 4 At the nanoscale, where objects are measured in billionths of meters and events transpire in trillionths of seconds, things do not always behave as ...
2014-06-27 R & D Magazine - Nanotechnology
thumbnailNanotechnology researchers create quantum dots with single-atom precision
The complete findings are published in the July 2014 issue of the journal Nature Nanotechnology ("Quantum dots with single-atom precision"). quantized electron states. This image shows quantized electron states, for quantum numbers n = 1 to 6, of a ...
yesterday Nanowerk - Nanotechnology
thumbnailNew technique controls fluids at the nanoscale
(Phys.org) —Researchers at Swinburne University of Technology have revealed a revolutionary method of pumping fluid at the nanoscale level that has potential use for desalinating water and lab-on-a-chip devices. They have developed a simple, highly ...
today Phys.Org - Nanotechnology
thumbnailNanoscale 'Velcro' Used for Molecule Transport
In order to better understand this process, he has created an artificial model of the nuclear pore complex, together with scientists from Lausanne and Cambridge, which has led to the discovery that its proteins function like a nanoscale “'Velcro” which ...
2014-06-26 Controlled Environments Magazine - Nanotechnology
thumbnailControlling nanotube orientation in 3D architectures
3D fabrication of SWCNT/polymer composites by TPP lithography. a) Schematic showing 3D microfabrication of SWCNT/polymer composites based on TPP lithography. Femtosecond pulsed laser beam (780 nm) is focused on SWCNT-dispersed photo-resin ...
today Nanowerk - Nanotechnology

Featured Event

MEMS Portugal 2015

Event Calendar

MicroTAS 2014
2014-10-26 - 2014-10-30
San Antonio, TX
AVS 61st International Symposium and Exhibition
2014-11-09 - 2014-11-14
Baltimore, MD
Science and Technology of Materials, Interfaces, and Processing
ICMEMSS 2014
2014-12-18 - 2014-12-20
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, INDIA
International Conference on MEMS and Sensors
The 28th International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems
2015-01-18 - 2015-01-22
Estoril, Portugal
Transducers 2015
2015-06-21 - 2015-06-25
Anchorage, Alaska

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