MEMS technology

Check out the finalists for MEMS & Sensors Technology Showcase at MEMS ...

Back in 2001 when I was a young mother with a baby in diapers, I dreamed of a MEMS-enabled gizmo (perhaps on her diaper?) that would remotely indicate if my daughter was sleeping. She was (and still is) a restless sleeper, and I had many nights where I ...

2015-10-22 ElectroIQ (blog) - MEMS technology

Nanotechnology

Better Capacitors Through Nanotechnology

Traditionally, capacitors are like really bad rechargeable batteries. Supercapacitors changed that, making it practical to use a fast-charging capacitor in place of rechargeable batteries. However, supercapacitors work in a different way than ...

yesterday Hackaday - Nanotechnology

Dielectric Capacitors Have Increased Energy Storage Ability, Nanotechnology ...

In their new study, the researchers use nanotechnology to improve the energy density of dielectric capacitors, which involves an insulating material sandwiched between two conducting metal plates. "To our knowledge, this is the first time that 3D ...

yesterday Science World Report - Nanotechnology

New Modulation Technique Could be Useful for Silicon-Based Nanoscale Devices

The technique provides a new approach to modulation that could be useful in all kinds of silicon-based nanoscale devices, including computer chips and other optoelectronic components. "Our results demonstrate relatively fast modulation from ...

2015-10-23 AZoNano.com - Nanotechnology

Nanoscale Diamond 'Racetrack' Becomes Breakthrough Raman Laser

This optical component uses a nanoscale racetrack-shaped diamond resonator to convert one frequency of laser light to an entirely different range of wavelengths, opening up new possibilities for broadband data communications and a host of other ...

yesterday Next Big Future - Nanotechnology

Probing the properties of individual nanoscale objects

This allows the researchers to study even single nanoscale objects. “The technique in principle allows you to measure almost any nanoscale electronic object,” said Cunningham. It could be used to measure the properties of graphene, for example, or ...

yesterday The Engineer - Nanotechnology

Cyclic Deformation Could Eliminate Crystal Defects in Nanoscale Metal Parts

Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Xi'an Jiaotong University and Carnegie Mellon University amongst others have discovered that when nanoscale metal pieces are stretched in small amounts repeatedly, the material can be ...

2015-10-22 Azom.com - Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology offers new approach to increasing storage ability of dielectric ...

Now, a group of researchers at the University of Delaware and the Chinese Academy of Sciences has successfully used nanotechnology to achieve this goal. The work is reported in a paper, "Dielectric Capacitors with Three-Dimensional Nanoscale ...

2015-10-23 Phys.Org - Nanotechnology

LANL: Researchers Create Nanoscale, Multidimensional Artificial Magnet

Researchers have created a nanoscale, artificial magnet by arranging an array of magnetic nano-islands along a geometry that is not found in natural magnets. As temperature is reduced, magnetic nanoislands (in blue) reach a one-dimensional static, ...

today Los Alamos Daily Post - Nanotechnology

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Event Calendar

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 MEMS and Sensors: Enabling the Connection to the Physical World
Wearable Sensors and Electronics 2015 2015-11-16 - 2015-11-17 Santa Clara, CA. Bringing Together the Wearable Ecosystem
PowerMEMS 2015 2015-12-01 - 2015-12-04 Boston, MA The 15th International Conference on Micro and Nanotechnology Power Generation and Energy Conversion Applications
T-Sensors Summit 2015-12-09 - 2015-12-10 Celebration, FL Creating a TSensors-Based Abundant Future
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
MEMS Technical Congress Europe 2016 2016-03-07 - 2016-03-08 Munich, Germany Delivering Technical Solutions, Together.
MEMS 2017 2017-01-22 - 2017-01-26 Las Vegas, Nevada The 30th Annual IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems