MEMS technology

Banknote Check with Ultra-Fast Line Scan Sensor

For the development of a new sensor, the Austrian research institution has brought the Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems IMS in Duisburg on board. This is because the sensors which are currently available have meanwhile ...

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DMQ Launches Smaller MEMS Micro Valve

LONDON — DunAn Microstaq Inc. (Austin, Texas) has announced the availability of the silQflo silicon servo valve, a MEMS based device measuring 10.80mm by 4.83mm by 2.225mm. This is 36 percent smaller than the company's established MEMS based ...

yesterday EE Times - MEMS technology

How To Build An IoT Device

These SoCs then interact with sensors and microelectronic mechanicals machines (MEMS). "Now, because of processing issues right now, you can't build them all on the same chip, but you can build them in the same package, and that's known as a SiP -- a ...

yesterday CRN - MEMS technology

Toast and honey holds the key to spider-silk strength

... is that the manufacturing process is multiphysical. It draws on concepts from numerous fields: fluid mechanics, microfabrication, strength of materials, polymer rheology and more.” The Montreal team explain their research in the journal Advanced ...

today The Engineer - MEMS technology

New microfiber emitters boost production of versatile fibers fourfold, cut ...

The work is "an elegant and creative way of demonstrating the strong capability of traditional MEMS [microelectromechanical-systems] fabrication processes toward parallel nanomanufacturing," says Reza Ghodssi, a professor of electrical engineering at ...

today Phys.Org - MEMS technology

Video: Panorama Rolls Out MEMS-Based Chemical Sensor

LONDON — Panorama Synergy Ltd. (Perth, Western Australia) has developed a chemical sensor based on the interaction of silicon photonic structures with a microscopic cantilever beam. The cantilever, created using MEMS techniques, can be coated with a ...

yesterday EE Times - MEMS technology

MEMS business

Google Inc Stealthily Acquires Sensor Maker Lumedyne

Last year, Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) made an acquisition which it does not want to make public. The company in question is Lumedyne Technologies, a startup in the business of making micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) sensors. It was launched ...

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Fab equipment capex up three years running – SEMI

Fab equipment spending is forecast to depart from the typical historic trend over the past 15 years of two years of spending growth followed by one of decline, says SEMI, for the first time equipment spending could grow every year for three years in a ...

today ElectronicsWeekly.com - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Visualising nanoscale changes in the electronic properties of graphene

The study, which was conducted in collaboration with the University of Surrey, UK, and the Institute of Electronic Materials Technology, Poland, shows for the first time the nanoscale changes of graphene's electronic and structural properties upon ...

yesterday Phys.Org - Nanotechnology

Nanoscale Spirals Could Guard Against Identity Theft

Tiny nano-spirals with unusual optical properties that could be virtually impossible to counterfeit when added to identity cards, currency and other valuables have bben developed by Vanderbilt University students and faculty. Roderick Davidson II, the ...

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Nanotech business

'Chlorination-less' wins nanotechnology student video contest (w/video)

(Nanowerk News) The National Nanotechnology Coordination Office (NNCO) is pleased to announce the winners of the first Tiny Science. Big Impacts. Cool Videos. nanotechnology video contest for students. Abelardo Colon and Jennifer Gill from the ...

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40th Annual NIST Time and Frequency Seminar 2015-06-02 - 2015-06-05 Boulder, CO
Design Automation Conference (52nd DAC) 2015-06-07 - 2015-06-11 San Francisco, CA The premier conference for design and automation of electronic systems
Sensors Expo & Conference 2015-06-09 - 2015-06-11 Long Beach Convention Center, CA Sensing Technologies Driving Tomorrow's Solutions
TechConnect World Innovation Conference & Expo 2015-06-14 - 2015-06-17 Washington, DC Nanotech, Microtech, Biotech, Cleantech
National SBIR/STTR Conference 2015-06-15 - 2015-06-17 Washington, DC National Innovation Summit
Testing of MEMS Inertial Sensors 2015-06-18 Online, 11:30am EDT Test by Utilizing IEEE P2700 Standard for Sensor Performance
Transducers 2015 2015-06-21 - 2015-06-25 Anchorage, Alaska
MEMS Manufacturing 2015 2015-08-05 - 2015-08-06 Santa Clara, California Annual Conference and Exhibition
Workshop on Enabling Future Health Care 2015-08-23 - 2015-08-26 Napa, California the Role of Micro and Nano Technologies
MIG Conference Asia 2015 2015-09-09 - 2015-09-10 Shanghai, China Stay tuned for more details!
European MEMS Summit 2015 2015-09-17 - 2015-09-18 Milan, Italy European MEMS Summit will focus on MEMS technologies, manufacturing and business challenges
Swiss ePrint 2015, 3rd edition 2015-10-01 - 2015-10-02 Neuchatel, Switzerland The Swiss Conference on Printed Electronics and Functional Materials
MicroTAS 2015 2015-10-25 - 2015-10-29 HICO, Gyeongju, Korea The 19th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences
MEMS Executive Congress US 2015 2015-11-04 - 2015-11-06 Napa, CA Stay tuned for more details!
PowerMEMS 2015 2015-12-01 - 2015-12-04 Boston, MA The 15th International Conference on Micro and Nanotechnology Power Generation and Energy Conversion Applications
SPIE Photonics West 2016 2016-02-13 - 2016-02-18 Moscone Center San Francisco, California, USA Photonics West, the #1 laser, photonics, biomedical optics conference