MEMS technology

On accurate tools and calibration

One neat little item is this $30 Wixey tilt-box which measures angles. Wixey tilt box. Photo by author. MEMS accelerometers are so cheap today that a lot of these sorts of devices are available. A rare-earth magnet in the bottom of the unit sticks it to ...

embedded.com: 2016-08-22 - MEMS technology

Tiny robot caterpillar can move objects ten times its size

A team of researchers from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, however, successfully created a 15-millimeter soft micromachine that only needs light to be able to move. The microrobot is made of Liquid Crystalline Elastomers (LCEs), smart ...

www.engadget.com: 2016-08-19 - MEMS technology

Your New iPhone Could Have a 3D Scanner

Only so much can be said about the patents at this point , but it could include a micromirror, which is produced by used Microelectromechanical systems (MEMs) technology. For this kind of system to work, a reciever takes in the light from the area being ...

3dprintingindustry.com: 2016-08-22 - MEMS technology

The Different Shades of MEMS Acceleration Sensing

Acceleration, vibration, shock, tilt, and rotation—all except rotation are actually different manifestations of acceleration over different periods of time. However, as humans we don’t intuitively relate to these motion senses as variations on ...

www.element14.com: 2016-08-19 - MEMS technology

MEMS business

Is smart dust the IoT vector of the future?

As early as 2003, researchers were working on applications for smart dust, which they characterised “tiny wireless microelectromechanical sensors (MEMS) that can detect everything from light to vibrations”. Commercial applications considered included ...

ReadWrite: 2016-08-20 - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Video: Combining Simulation & Experiment for Nanoscale 3-D Printing

In this video, ORNL researchers use supercomputers to simulate nanomanufacturing, the process of building microscopic devices atom by atom. Simulated here is the construction of a 250-nanometer 3-D cube by focused electron beam induced deposition.

insidehpc.com: 2016-08-22 - Nanotechnology

The Mystery About the 'Coffee Ring Effect' Continues

But if physicists can crack the mystery, they’ll be able to manipulate these kinds of liquids at the nanoscale, opening up a host of potential applications in medicine and high-tech manufacturing.

Gizmodo: 2016-08-22 - Nanotechnology

Nanoscale Display Case Shows The 3-D Structure Of Molecules

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley have created a sort of nanoscale display case that enables new atomic-scale views of hard-to-study chemical and biological samples. Their work ...

tek-think.com: 2016-08-22 - Nanotechnology

Brittle quasicrystals become ductile at the nanoscale

When shrunk to the nanoscale, quasicrystals become plastic. That is the finding of an international team of researchers, which says that its results could potentially widen the material's applications. Quasicrystals – materials in which the atoms show ...

Nanotechweb: 2016-08-22 - Nanotechnology

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Event Calendar

ASME 2016 COMS 2016-08-28 - 2016-08-31 Houston, TX Commercialization of Micro, Nano, and Emerging Technologies
Sensors Midwest 2016-09-27 - 2016-09-28 Rosemont, IL
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 and Sensors Executive Congress US 2016 2016-11-09 - 2016-11-11 Scottsdale, Arizona CAPTURING VALUE FROM MEMS AND SENSORS
MEMS 2017 2017-01-22 - 2017-01-26 Las Vegas, Nevada The 30th Annual IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems