MEMS technology

Pause Your Tunes by Taking Out Your Earbuds

There are a number of companies working on bringing ultrasound technology to electronics already, such as Elliptic Labs, which makes software that employs ultrasound for gesture recognition and proximity sensing on phones, and Chirp Microsystems, ...

2016-02-04 MIT Technology Review - MEMS technology

Towards a new scale

While the motion sensors prevalent in today's cars and smartphones are based on microelectromechanical systems, new sensing capabilities might emerge from fundamental research on nanosensors. In comparison to the scaling of logic and memory ...

2016-02-02 Nature.com - MEMS technology

3D printed 'Spermbots' boost sperm mobility and could help solve male infertility

Nanoscribe's microfabrication 3D printing technology is based on 'direct laser writing,' a non-linear two-photo absorption process in which a controlled laser solidifies a liquid photo-sensitive material, and can 3D print objects measuring from 150 ...

today 3ders.org (blog) - MEMS technology

'Snow' better way to clean coordinate-measuring machine probes

CMMs are increasingly used to verify the complex geometry of micro-scale components in the automotive, medical and telecommunications industries. Measurement error can occur if the highly-sensitive stylus tip, contaminated with tiny debris particles, ...

2016-02-02 Phys.Org - MEMS technology

Good vibrations

As Dr Choo reported on January 26th, to the International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems in Shanghai, he and his team were able to harvest a tenth of a milliwatt per square centimetre of lead zirconate titanate from the voice of a man ...

2016-02-04 The Economist - MEMS technology

MEMS business

MEMS Microphone Market to Hit 13% CAGR

The microelectromechanical-systems (MEMS) microphones market will grow from about 3.6 billion units in 2015 to over 6 billion units in 2019, according to market research company IHS Technology. Over the same period the market value will grow from ...

2016-02-03 EE Times - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Nanoscale cavity strongly links quantum particles

Nanoscale cavity strongly links quantum particles. February 8, 2016. Nanoscale cavity strongly links quantum particles. Credit: S. Kelley/JQI. Scientists have created a crystal structure that boosts the interaction between tiny bursts of light and ...

today Phys.Org - Nanotechnology

Scientists take key step toward custom-made nanoscale chemical factories

The shell of a bacterial microcompartment (or BMC) is mainly composed of hexagonal proteins, with pentagonal proteins capping the vertices, similar to a soccer ball (left). Scientists have engineered one of these hexagonal proteins, …more. Scientists ...

2016-02-04 Phys.Org - Nanotechnology

Imaging: Nano meets femto

Writing in Nature Nanotechnology, Markus Raschke and colleagues at the University of Colorado at Boulder now report a technique that combines the nanometre resolution of near-field microscopy with the femtosecond resolution of pump–probe ...

today Nature.com - Nanotechnology

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Event Calendar

A Technical Review of MIPI I3C for the MSIG Community 2016-02-11 Online, 11:30am EDT
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.
Intro to MEMS Reliability 2016-03-21 Online, 11:30am EDT How to Fix Problems Before They Happen
IEEE-NEMS 2016 2016-04-17 - 2016-04-20 Matsushima Bay and Sendai, Japan The 11th Annual IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems
Flexible Sensors 2016 Workshop 2016-04-26 Santa Clara, California
Medical MEMS & Sensors 2016 2016-04-27 - 2016-04-28 Santa Clara CA MEMS and sensor technologies for medical diagnostic applications
ADAS Sensors 2016 Workshop 2016-05-19 Detroit, Michigan
TechConnect World Innovation Conference and Expo 2016-05-22 - 2016-05-25 Washington, DC TechConnect World Innovation Conference co-locates with the largest global innovation program in physical and life sciences. The joint programs include the Nanotech 2016 Conference, the National Innovation Summit, and the National SBIR/STTR Conference.
Hilton Head Workshop 2016 2016-06-05 - 2016-06-09 Hilton Head, South Carolina A Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Workshop
Automotive Sensors and Electronics 2016 2016-06-15 - 2016-06-16 Detroit, MI Annual Conference and Exhibition
Sensors Expo & Conference 2016-06-21 - 2016-06-23 San Jose CA INNOVATIVE APPLICATIONS. EXPERT INSTRUCTORS. AUTHORITATIVE CONTENT. TOMORROW'S SOLUTIONS.
uTAS 2016 2016-10-09 - 2016-10-13 Dublin, Ireland The 20th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences
Micro Photonics International Congress Expo 2016-10-11 - 2016-10-13 Messe Berlin Germany Innovation and Miniaturization in Photonics
MEMS 2017 2017-01-22 - 2017-01-26 Las Vegas, Nevada The 30th Annual IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems