MEMS technology

DARPA’s AMEBA Program Could Allow Radio Communication In Places Where Conventional Wireless Doesn’t Work

In the current day and age, it’s hard to imagine life without radio transmitters and receivers — devices that make it possible to communicate through cellphones, radios and television, among other things. However, radio communication — especially one ...

International Business Times: 2016-12-19 - MEMS technology

Listen to your perspiration: 'Sweat sensors' could someday monitor health in real time

The sensor is roughly the size of a quarter and designed for a one-time use of a few hours. It features “microfluidics” that move sweat down microscopic channels into compartments 4 millimeters in diameter. Each of these chambers measures specific ...

Quad Cities Onlines: 2016-12-21 - MEMS technology

A breakthrough in miniaturising lidars for autonomous driving

Infineon, however, has taken a different tack and is using a micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS). This particular MEMS was invented by Innoluce, a Dutch firm which Infineon bought in October 2016. The device consists of an oval-shaped mirror ...

The Economist online: 2016-12-21 - MEMS technology

Optical probes overcome light-scattering issue in deep-brain imaging

has developed a new approach that combines nanophotonics and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) in an implantable, ultra-narrow, silicon-based photonic probe to deliver light deep within brain tissues. This minimally invasive technique avoids major ...

biooptics World: 2016-12-20 - MEMS technology

New approach to microfluidics for quicker detection of CTCs

Circulating Tumor Cells (CTC) are key early indicators of metastasis, which is the process by which cancer cells move from one organ group in the body to another. Once cancer spreads, the prognosis is generally not good. So, early identification of CTCs ...

eedesignit.com: 2016-12-19 - MEMS technology

MEMS business

UCF Latest IR Detector Research Receives US $1.3M DARPA Grant

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded a US $1.3 million grant to a team led by UCF researcher Debashis Chanda to fund the development of a next-generation infrared detector that could be used in fields as varied as night vision ...

ledinside.com: 2016-12-21 - MEMS business

PowerPhotonic partners with Precitec on beam-shaping optics for laser cutting

Novel optics have been co-developed with Precitec to improve the cutting performance in high-power industrial processing machines using PowerPhotonic's direct-write laser micromachining technology for high precision and accuracy. Based on Precitec's long ...

laserfocusworld.com: 2016-12-21 - MEMS business

Materion Corporation: Materion Precision Optics Acquires Gettering Capabilities for Wafer Level Processing

a global leader in the design and manufacture of microelectromechanical (MEMs)-based products and getter technology. The assets acquired include the NanoGetters® technology, patents and trademarks. Getter technology is used to improve the long-term ...

The Wall Street Transcript: 2016-12-20 - MEMS business

TDK to Acquire InvenSense Realize New Sensor Solutions in IoT, Automotive and ICT

InvenSense’s “fabless” manufacturing model enables development of high-performance and cost effective products via its unique CMOS-MEMS production process. Enhanced by its value-added software solutions, InvenSense has expanded rapidly to become a ...

ih.advfn.com: 2016-12-21 - MEMS business

The Big Bang of autonomous driving

An independent Defense Department organization launched by the Eisenhower administration, called the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, was, by the 2000s, bent on bringing advanced transportation thinkers out of their laboratories and ...

Automotive News: 2016-12-19 - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Nanochannel Implant Could Revolutionize Drug Delivery

There's also a limit to how much of the drug can be present in your system so that it doesn't make you sick.” NEMS are a class of devices integrating electrical and mechanical functionality on the nanoscale, forming the logical next miniaturization step ...

hospimedica.com: 2016-12-20 - Nanotechnology

New stamping technique creates functional features at nanoscale dimensions

The next time you place your coffee order, imagine slapping onto your to-go cup a sticker that acts as an electronic decal, letting you know the precise temperature of your triple-venti no-foam latte. Someday, the high-tech stamping that produces such a ...

technology.org: 2016-12-20 - Nanotechnology

Graphene able to transport huge currents on the nanoscale

Impacting xenon ions with a particularly high electric charge on a graphene film causes a large number of electrons to be torn away from the graphene in a very precise spot. However, the material was able to replace the electrons within some femtoseconds.

Nano werk: 2016-12-21 - Nanotechnology

Fully functional 'nano-snowman' has applications for providing greener energy

At only five nanometres in size, the nano-snowman was imaged with an aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscope at the Nanoscale Physics, Chemistry and Engineering Research Laboratory at the University of Birmingham. It was formed ...

Phys: 2016-12-20 - Nanotechnology

Nanostructures appear to determine implant performance

December 20, 2016-- Differences between implant surfaces at the nanoscale level appear to at least partially determine which have a higher chance of success after an implant procedure, according to a new study. The research may lead to implants that better ...

DrBicuspid: 2016-12-20 - Nanotechnology

NIST Device for Detecting Subatomic-Scale Motion Has Potential Robotics, Homeland Security Applications

Schematic shows laser light interacting with a plasmonic gap resonator, a miniature device designed at NIST to measure with unprecedented precision the nanoscale motions of nanoparticles. An incident laser beam (pink beam at left) strikes the resonator ...

Next Big Future: 2016-12-20 - Nanotechnology

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Event Calendar

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
INERTIAL '17 2017-03-27 - 2017-03-30 Kauai, Hawaii The 4th IEEE International Symposium on Inertial Sensors & Systems
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
MEMS & Sensors Technical Congress 2017 2017-05-10 - 2017-05-11 Stanford, CA Working Together to Solve Technical Challenges and Increase Value across the MEMS and Sensors Supply Chain
TechConnect World Innovation Conference & Expo 2017-05-14 - 2017-05-17 Washington, DC Accelerating the Commercialization of Global Innovation
MEMS Testing & Reliability 2017 2017-08-01 Santa Clara, CA Workshop and Exhibition
MEMS Manufacturing 2017 2017-08-03 - 2017-08-07 Santa Clara, CA Annual Conference and Exhibition