MEMS technology

Ultrafast Lasers Enable Improvements in Microprocessing

One particularly good match for high-energy picosecond lasers is thin-film processing. In this application space, lasers with very moderate pulse energy have been shown to be capable of high-speed material removal with excellent qualitative results ...

today Photonics.com - MEMS technology

New pathway to valleytronics

A study has shown that the optical Stark effect, which describes the energy shift in a two-level system induced by a non-resonant laser field, can be used to control valley excitons in MX2 semiconductors. A potential avenue to quantum computing ...

today Phys.Org - MEMS technology

In the Future, Your Touchscreens Will Touch You Back

These tiny movements can be achieved using various present-day actuator technologies including shape memory alloys, pneumatic devices, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and piezoelectric elements. Crucially, these actuator devices are very fast ...

today Wired - MEMS technology

Intrepid projects backed by Bose Grants

Xenon difluoride (XeF2) gas is one substance commonly used to etch silicon for use in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and in photonics. Etching with XeF2 has helped electronics shrink and improve. But Sylvia Ceyer, the John C. Sheehan Professor ...

yesterday MIT News - MEMS technology

Calmar Laser Introduces New Fiber-Based Femtosecond Lasers Ideal for ...

... Calmar has been a key supplier and reliable OEM partner to customers for advanced high-speed test and measurement applications optical communications component characterization material diagnosis transmission biomedicine and micromachining.

today PharmiWeb.com (press release) - MEMS technology

Macroblock fine-pitch LED display drivers spur adoption of indoor LED displays

With the microelectronic techniques and improvement on LED displays, fine pitch LED displays become a more popular solution for replacing indoor displays, such as commercial digital signage in the mall, meeting room, ballroom, TV studio, broadcast room ...

yesterday LEDs Magazine - MEMS technology

MEMS business

Maxim Exits Consumer MEMS, Touch Sensors

Maxim Integrated Products Inc. has decided to get out of consumer MEMS and consumer touch sensor markets and focus its sensor business on the automotive sensor. Meanwhile Maxim is making moves into wearable equipment, mainly with the provision of ...

today EE Times - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Study on Crumpled Graphene Oxide-Based Nanocomposites for Advanced ...

“John Fortner is an innovative environmental engineer and has capitalized well on strengths in nanomaterial synthesis in the department and come up with path breaking applications in clean water technologies,” says Pratim Biswas, PhD, the Lucy and ...

yesterday AZoNano.com - Nanotechnology

Synthesizing carbon nanothreads from benzene

Carbon nanomaterials—e.g., fullerenes, nanotubes, and graphene, with dimensionalities of 0, 1, and 2, respectively—possess beautiful chemical bonding arrangements and extraordinary physical and chemical properties: see Figure 1(a). As is the case ...

yesterday SPIE Newsroom - Nanotechnology

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