MEMS technology

Streamlining thin-film processing saves time, energy

Graduate student Rakesh Gupta takes a thin-film sample out of a biochar solution.Energy storage devices and computer screens may seem worlds apart, but they're not. When Assoc. Prof. Qi Hua Fan of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Dept.

today R & D Magazine - MEMS technology

Testing Out Robo-insects

Carnegie Mellon is part of the Micro-Autonomous Systems Technology Collaborative Technology Alliance of ARL's robotics enterprise, which explores ways to enhance soldiers' situational awareness on the battlefield through basic research on micro-scale ...

today Armed with Science - MEMS technology

Novel Method for Fabricating Moulded Liquid Polymer Derived Ceramic ...

Elastomeric micro-moulds composed of a filling pot are used to deliver via sacrificial micro-channels a precise amount of the liquid ceramic precursor to the target location with the micro-scale functional structures. To improve the filling properties ...

today AZoNano.com - MEMS technology

Fully integrated broadband terahertz modulators

The metasurface consists of an array of microscale metallic islands integrated with an array of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) switches (see Figure 1). Activating the MEMS switches brings the previously separate metallic islands into contact ...

today SPIE Newsroom - MEMS technology

MEMS business

X-FAB, Silicon Works Reach Milestone in Partnership to Bring New Automotive ...

X-FAB's analog-digital integrated circuits (mixed-signal ICs), sensors and micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) are manufactured at five production facilities in Germany, Malaysia and the U.S. X-FAB employs 2,400 people worldwide. For more ...

today AZoSensors - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Biochemists Create Large Nanoscale Protein Container

At a size hundreds of times smaller than a human cell, it also could lead to new methods of delivering pharmaceuticals inside of cells, or to the creation of new nanoscale materials. The protein assembly, which is shaped like a cube, was constructed ...

yesterday AZoNano.com - Nanotechnology

Nanoscale 'reactor' produces new compound

A team of physicists at the University of Groningen, Netherlands has discovered a new manganese compound that is produced by tension in the crystal structure of terbium manganese oxide, according to research published today in the journal Nature.

today Laboratory Talk - Nanotechnology

A decade of uncertainty in nanoscale science and engineering

Since 2004, peer-reviewed publications addressing the health and environmental impact of engineered nanomaterials have skyrocketed. A search of the nanoEHS Virtual Journal [13] (a database of articles related to the environmental and health impacts of ...

today Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies - Nanotechnology

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3D ASIP 2014 2014-12-10 - 2014-12-12 Burlingame, CA 3D Architectures for Semiconductor Integration and Packaging
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
SPIE Photonics West 2015 2015-02-07 - 2015-02-12 Moscone Center San Francisco Photonics West, the #1 laser, photonics, biomedical optics conference
SPIE Advanced Lithography 2015 2015-02-22 - 2015-02-26 San Jose, CA The #1 Event for Lithographic Technologies, Materials, Processing, and more.
NANOSMAT-Asia 2015 Conference 2015-03-24 - 2015-03-27 Kayseri, Turkey The 2nd International Conference on Surfaces, Coatings and Nanostructured Materials
DTIP of MEMS/MOEMS 2015 2015-04-27 - 2015-04-30 Montpelier, France Design, Test, Integration & Packaging
Automotive Sensors and Electronics Expo 2015 2015-05-20 Detroit, MIchigan Annual Conference and Exhibition
TechConnect World Innovation Conference & Expo 2015-06-14 - 2015-06-17 Washington, DC Nanotech, Microtech, Biotech, Cleantech
Transducers 2015 2015-06-21 - 2015-06-25 Anchorage, Alaska