MEMS technology

New mission to detect Marsquakes is back on track, says Imperial expert

There are two types of seismometers, one built by us the in UK and another by a French team. We are using silicon micromachining techniques to form our mass and spring out of a single crystal of silicon. We designed it and built it here in the micro ...

Imperial College London: 2016-10-13 - MEMS technology

New Microfluidic Device Allows Researchers to Measure Cell Growth…by the Picogram

A different approach pioneered by Scott Manalis, a Professor of Biological Engineering at MIT, combines microfluidics and resonating cantilevers to calculate a cell’s mass as it flows through tiny channels just three microns across. The cantilever ...

Discover Magazine: 2016-10-12 - MEMS technology

MIT Study Reveals Electron-Phonon Interactions Impact Heat Dissipation in Computer Chips

MIT researchers have found that interactions between electrons and heat-carrying particles called phonons can play a significant role in preventing heat dissipation in microelectronic devices. (Credit: MIT) Technological development in the near future will ...

AZOM: 2016-10-13 - MEMS technology

Worms-On-A-Chip Drug Screening System Designed

11 October 2016. A system using live roundworms on a microfluidics chip and high-speed image analysis can quickly and simultaneously screen nearly 100 drug compounds. The team led by engineering professor Adela Ben-Yakar at University of Texas in Austin ...

sciencebusiness.technewslit.com: 2016-10-11 - MEMS technology

Ultra-thin Ferroelectric Material for Next-generation Electronics

Scientists at Tokyo Tech have demonstrated the potential of a new, thin-film ferroelectric material that could improve ... To do this, they needed to grow a carefully-ordered crystal on a substrate, a process known as epitaxy, which would give them well ...

scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com: 2016-10-12 - MEMS technology

MEMS ICs serve high-resolution vibration measurement

Three-axis MEMS accelerometers, Analog Devices’ ADXL354 and ADXL355 perform high-resolution vibration measurement to enable the early detection of structural defects via wireless sensor networks. The low power consumption of the devices lengthens battery ...

embedded.com: 2016-10-12 - MEMS technology

MEMS business

DARPA’s Microsystems Technology Office Streamlines Contracting for Innovators with Little or No Experience Working with DoD

"We at DARPA have the privilege of pursuing research outside the confines of traditional corporate R&D to catalyze the kinds of technological shifts that can launch radically new electronic, photonic, and MEMS devices," said MTO Director Bill Chappell.

Robotics Tomorrow: 2016-10-13 - MEMS business

Infineon acquires Innoluce BV for high-performance solid-state LiDAR systems

Such micro-mirrors are necessary to adjust the laser beams in automotive LiDAR systems. Innoluce’s platform of solid-state laser scanning modules is based on unique resonant 1D MEMS mirror technology and integrated ASIC. The patented 1D MEMS mirrors are ...

greencarcongress.com: 2016-10-11 - MEMS business

MEMS & Sensors Industry Group Reveals Tech Showcase Finalists

i-BLADES' mobile Smartcase is a new modular accessory that dramatically accelerates time to market and reach for MEMS and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. It lets new technologies quickly reach mass-market mobile consumers through one integrated ...

Electronic Engineering Journal: 2016-10-13 - MEMS business

How Risky Is InvenSense Inc.?

By far the most important function of InvenSense’s products is the company’s place in smartphones. Its MEMS allow the phones to react to movements in the phone, like when a picture rotates to match the angle at which it’s held. The problem is that a ...

The Motley Fool: 2016-10-13 - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Nanoscale Confinement Leads to New All-inorganic Perovskite with Exceptional Solar Cell Properties

Scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) for the first time discovered how to make perovskite solar cells out of quantum dots and used the new material to convert sunlight to electricity with 10.77 percent ...

Renewable Energy World: 2016-10-13 - Nanotechnology

Nanoscale Engineering Technique can Transform Particles into “LEGO-Like” Blocks

Tiny particles transformed into “LEGO- like” modular building blocks (Credit: University of Melbourne) A nanoscale engineering technique that can transform small particles into “LEGO-like” modular building blocks has been developed by scientists.

AZoNano: 2016-10-12 - Nanotechnology

Nanoscale device powers synthetic brain

University of Southampton scientists have demonstrated that a nanoscale device could power artificial systems to mimic a human brain. Memristors, first theorised in the 1970s, are electrical components that limit or regulate the flow of electrical current ...

labnews.co.uk: 2016-10-13 - Nanotechnology

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uTAS 2016 2016-10-09 - 2016-10-13 Dublin, Ireland The 20th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences
IMAPS 2016 2016-10-10 - 2016-10-13 Pasadena, CA Packaging the Connected World
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
Defense Innovation 2016-11-29 - 2016-12-01 Austin, TX Co-Located with Defense Energy and SBIR/STTR
MEMS 2017 2017-01-22 - 2017-01-26 Las Vegas, Nevada The 30th Annual IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems
Photonics West 2017 2017-01-28 - 2017-02-02 Moscone Center San Francisco, California, USA The world's largest multidisciplinary event focusing on photonics
IEEE-NEMS 2017 2017-04-09 - 2017-04-12 UCLA, Los Angeles, CA The 12th Annual International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems
TechConnect World Innovation Conference & Expo 2017-05-14 - 2017-05-17 Washington, DC Accelerating the Commercialization of Global Innovation