MEMS technology

These tiny robots with tentacles could be surgeons of the future

As part of the research, Jaeyoun Kim of Iowa State University and colleagues developed a new method for producing micro-scale robotic tentacles. The tentacles wrap around tiny objects, such as eggs of small fish which deform and burst easily when ...

today Business Insider Australia - MEMS technology

Researches say electronics directly injected into brain can cure paralysis and ...

Leiber says: “For the past thirty years, people have made incremental improvements in micro-fabrication techniques that have allowed us to make rigid probes smaller and smaller, but no one has addressed this issue – the electronics/cellular interface ...

today Techworm - MEMS technology

Towards a body-on-a-chip

A technique called microfluidics is used to shuttle a blood-mimicking fluid along channels and tiny pipes, bringing sustenance to the cells. The chips do not contain complete organs, just the smallest colonies of cells necessary to replicate the ...

today The Economist - MEMS technology

Engineers have built a computer of water droplets to better manipulate matter

The idea is to revolutionize the field of microfluidics, which is the science of manipulating water droplets. The droplets are being used as tiny beakers carrying chemicals. In microfluidics, the droplets are programmed to mix with other droplets ...

yesterday Quartz - MEMS technology

University of Houston Researchers Work on Development of Advanced Materials

This could transform both micro- and nano-electronics owing to the fact of generation of dangerous levels of heat by the microelectronic chips in miniature devices, said Chu. A material capable of drawing away the heat rapidly paves the way for packing ...

yesterday Azom.com - MEMS technology

Optical and MEMS technologies combining to enable new applications

The phrase microelectromechanical systems – or MEMS – was coined in 1986, when the University of Utah made a submission to US defence research funding agency DARPA. Even so, devices were in production before than that could be broadly ...

yesterday New Electronics - MEMS technology

MEMS business

Laser World of Photonics 2015: Route des Lasers members exhibit

The Route des Lasers, a competitiveness cluster exclusively for photonics companies, today announces it will host best-in-class photonics innovations designed by its cluster members at the international Laser World of Photonics event in Munich, 22 to ...

today Novus Light Technologies Today - MEMS business

Report: Google Buys MEMS Sensor Startup

LONDON — Internet giant Google Inc. acquired MEMS sensor startup Lumedyne Technologies Inc. (San Diego, Calif.) for about $85 million back in November 2014, according to an Xconomy report. Google's decision to buy came a few months after ...

2015-06-09 EE Times - MEMS business

Going Into Orbit

SPTS offers a large range of systems that have set new standards in the high growth Advanced Packaging and MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems) markets. Through this acquisition, Orbotech expects to accelerate the execution of its growth and ...

today Investing Daily - MEMS business

Optomec Taps Semitronics to Distribute Their 3D Printed Electronics & Aerosol ...

They specifically focus on 3D printed electronics, photovoltaics, microelectronics and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) applications. Optomec Aerosol Jet printing technology provides the high-resolution 3D printing capabilities required to ...

yesterday 3DPrint.com - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

X-rays capture super-fast nanoscale film

Researchers working at the PETRA III synchrotron in Hamburg have witnessed changes in single silver bromide crystal grains in Kodak linagraph paper happening within five-millisecond timescales. That led to a discovery, which Jianwei Miao from ...

2015-06-09 Royal Society of Chemistry - Nanotechnology

Rice researchers make ultrasensitive conductivity measurements: Photonic ...

Researchers at Rice University have discovered a new way to make ultrasensitive conductivity measurements at optical frequencies on high-speed nanoscale electronic components. Rice researchers make ultrasensitive conductivity measurements: Photonic ...

yesterday Nanotechnology News (press release) - Nanotechnology

Diamond nanoparticles and graphene combination adds up to "superlubricity"

"The knowledge gained from this study, will be crucial in finding ways to reduce friction in everything from engines or turbines to computer hard disks and microelectromechanical systems." The results of the research were published in the journal ...

today Gizmag - Nanotechnology

Ultrafast heat conduction manipulates nanoscale magnets

Schematic, cutaway view of the geometry used to generate currents of spin from currents of heat. Pulses of laser light heat the left side of the sample and create an intense current of heat passing through the [Co,Ni] ferromagnet. This current of heat ...

2015-06-09 R & D Magazine - Nanotechnology

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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