MEMS technology

First 3D-printed heart-on-a-chip with integrated sensors

Lind is also a researcher at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. “Our microfabrication approach opens new avenues for in vitro tissue engineering, toxicology and drug screening research,” said Kit Parker ...

Knowridge Science Report: 2016-12-26 - MEMS technology

DARPA provides groundbreaking bionic arms to Walter Reed

WASHINGTON — The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is making available to military amputees the first production versions of a groundbreaking upper-limb prosthesis, according to a DARPA press release. Dr. Justin Sanchez, director of DARPA’s ...

health.mil: 2016-12-28 - MEMS technology

Dot Matrix Display Market - Full-Motion 3D Color Graphic Displays To Be The Future

Furthermore, With the advent of microelectronic and microprocessors devices, many more individual pixels (picture elements) could be combine into one display device, allowing video and graphic displays. Seven-segment indicator or seven-segment display (SSD ...

reports.pr-inside.com: 2016-12-28 - MEMS technology

MEMS business

MSIG and SEMI Come Together

So when it was announced that SEMI (Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International) and the MSIG (MEMS and Sensors Industry Group, formerly MIG) were coming together, my mind started moving through the possibilities. But then it occurred to me ...

Electronic Engineering Journal: 2016-12-28 - MEMS business

IFTLE 315: IMEC Leads at IEEE 3DIC 2016

This week, IFTLE will look at IMEC contributions. In their paper “Continuity and Reliability Assessment of a scalable 3 x 50μm and 2 x 40μm via-middle TSV Modules” IMEC describes a scalable via-middle module process, featuring an ALD oxide liner ...

Solid State Technology: 2016-12-27 - MEMS business

Top 10 Predictions for Enterprise Robotics for 2017

In its forecast released earlier this month, IDC noted those advances are being made possible by ongoing improvements in artificial intelligence, computer vision, navigation, MEMS (microelectromechanical) sensors and semiconductors. By 2019, 35 percent of ...

Sci-Tech Today: 2016-12-28 - MEMS business

Farewell, InvenSense: We Hardly Knew Ye

The two companies offer highly complementary sensors. InvenSense specializes in a wide range of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) like the gyroscopes and accelerometers that are ubiquitous in modern mobile devices, as well as microphones, inertial ...

The Motley Fool: 2016-12-21 - MEMS business

Finding a MEMS foundry: 6 things to seek in a partner

For companies competing in the fast-growing world of MEMS, the move from R&D to pilot production presents some interesting challenges. While entering the production phase can seem daunting to both startups and established companies, partnering with the ...

EDN Network: 2016-12-21 - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Sensor Can Sniff Out 17 Diseases Using Just Your Breath

A breathprint of death. A deathprint. Advertisement Anyway, the system consists of an “artificially intelligent nanoarray,” made mostly of nanoscale gold pieces and carbon nanotubes. The researchers started by using mass spectrometry (a tool that sorts ...

Gizmodo: 2016-12-28 - Nanotechnology

Nanoscale Interactions Help Create Self-Assembled Materials with Unprecedented Complexity

Building nanomaterials with features spanning just billionths of a meter requires extraordinary precision. Scaling up that construction while increasing complexity presents a significant hurdle to the widespread use of such nano-engineered materials.

AZoNano: 2016-12-23 - Nanotechnology

Stanford scientists' research holds big promise for the field of nanotechnology

The researchers started with diamondoids, which they describe as single cages that contain just 10 carbon atoms, that have a single sulfur atom attached to each. Creating such a thin wire, which previously was believed to be impossible, has successfully ...

lasignare.com: 2016-12-28 - Nanotechnology

Curved kick on the nanoscale: Investigations of the skyrmion Hall effect reveal surprising results

(Nanowerk News) Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made another important breakthrough in the field of future magnetic storage devices. Already in March 2016, the international ...

Nano werk: 2016-12-27 - Nanotechnology

Stanford scientists see big potential for tiny wires

The tiny necklace holds big promise for the field of nanotechnology, offering a technique for the future construction of molecular-scale mesh material that could be useful for ever-smaller and more efficient electronics or fabrics that generate electricity.

San Jose Mercury News: 2016-12-28 - Nanotechnology

Human Motion Powered Nanotechnology Devices

Michigan State University researchers have came up with a new method for harvesting energy from human motion using nanotechnology. They designed a low-cost film-like device, a nanogenerator, than can power a LCD display, keyboard, and some LEDs without ...

electronics-lab.com: 2016-12-27 - Nanotechnology

Nano system operates with interacting electrons, but no electric current

Credit: A. Vikström et al. ©2016 American Physical Society (Phys.org)—Illustrating the unusual way things work on the nanoscale, scientists have designed a new nanoelectromechanical system (NEMS) that produces mechanical motion due to the interactions ...

Phys: 2016-12-27 - Nanotechnology

Miniscule amounts of impurities in vacuum greatly affecting OLED lifetime

Information Technology and Nanotechnology (ISIT) in cooperation with Sumika Chemical Analysis Service Ltd. (SCAS). This research is ongoing in part under the Adachi Molecular Exciton Engineering Project funded by the Exploratory Research for Advanced ...

EurekAlert!: 2016-12-29 - Nanotechnology

Breakthrough work that advances path for nanoscale spin-wave majority gates

Figure 1 – 2D distribution of spin-waves propagation in a 1µm wide CoFeB conduit recorded using Brillouin light scattering spectroscopy (BLS). At the Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, imec, the world-leading research and innovation ...

Phys: 2016-12-23 - Nanotechnology

Featured Event

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