MEMS technology

Si-Ware Systems Introduces First Fully Integrated Chip-Sized Spectral Sensor for Industrial and Consumer Markets

The tiny package includes all the system components: the MEMS interferometer, the photodetector, the light source, and also the electronics chips that perform system control and data processing. This facilitates integration, reduces development risks for ...

Dealerscope: 2017-01-24 - MEMS technology

New Research Points to a Genetic Switch That Can Let Our Bodies Talk to Electronics

This new technology – a link between electrons and biology – may ultimately allow us to program our phones or other microelectronic devices to autonomously detect and treat disease. One of the barriers scientists have encountered when trying to link ...

futurism.com: 2017-01-24 - MEMS technology

Synthesis of electrostatically actuated optical micromirrors

Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) or Micro System Technology (MST) has gained a lot of focus in recent years from technologists, as it has evolved as a promising technology having applications in diverse fields such as telecommunications and medicine.

core.ac.uk: 2017-01-20 - MEMS technology

Great Spock! Hand-held material analyzers are here

Based on semiconductor fabrication techniques and MEMS technology, NeoSpectra modules provide compact, low-cost Fourier Transform near infrared (FT-NIR) spectral sensors. These modules are used by embedded systems designers to create a wide variety of ...

embedded.com: 2017-01-25 - MEMS technology

New possibilities for microfluidics with LEGO-like blocks

Building everything from castles to spaceships, LEGO already has millions of applications. But researchers in California have found a new use for the popular blocks – a modular microfluidics system. Microfluidics is a rapidly emerging technology with ...

eedesignit.com: 2017-01-24 - MEMS technology

Photonic Professional GT: The New Standard for Microfabrication

Nanoscribe´s Photonic Professional GT is the world’s highest resolution 3D printer. Based on two-photon polymerization, it allows for additive manufacturing and maskless lithography with the same device. Submicrometer resolution printing with feature ...

Optics: 2017-01-19 - MEMS technology

Scientists Have Unveiled The World’s Most Powerful “Super Laser”

Bijov could prove to be revolutionary for fields such as engineering, in which the laser could be used to harden metal surfaces, process semiconductors, or micro-machine materials. The team is hopeful that they will be able to commercialize the laser ...

futurism.com: 2017-01-25 - MEMS technology

MEMS business

Imec, EVG demo superior overlay accuracy for wafer-to-wafer bonding

Imec’s 3D integration program explores technology options to define innovative solutions for cost-effective realization of 3D interconnect with TSVs. Imec’s 3D integration processes are completely executed on 300mm. Imec also explores 3D design to ...

Electronics Weekly: 2017-01-24 - MEMS business

GF Machining Solutions, Sensofar Metrology partner on advanced micromachining methods

GF Machining Solutions (Satigny, Switzerland) and Sensofar Metrology (Barcelona, Spain) have entered into a strategic partnership in which Sensofar Metrology will supply GF Machining Solutions with custom S line (S neox) surface metrology systems to be ...

Indrustrial Laser Solutions: 2017-01-20 - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Ultrahigh-speed imaging reveals nanoscopic single-molecule dynamics

DOI: 10.1117/2.1201611.006731 Biological events (e.g., immune responses and infection by disease) originate from the interactions that take place between individual molecules at the nanoscale. Probing single-molecule dynamics is therefore a powerful method ...

SPIE: 2017-01-25 - Nanotechnology

Carbon nanotube transistors push up against quantum uncertainty limits

The reason we can't make this sort of nanomaterial-based hardware in bulk comes down to the annoying problem of getting a carbon nanotube in the right place. They're difficult to grow, and we can't control whether the resulting nanotube acts as a metal or ...

arstechnica.co.uk: 2017-01-25 - Nanotechnology

Meeting the challenges of nanotechnology: Nanoscale catalytic effects for nanotechnology

Scientists show nanoscale modifications to the edge region of nanocontacts to nanowires can be used to engineer the electrical function of the interfaces. Research by scientists at Swansea University is helping to meet the challenge of incorporating ...

Science Daily: 2017-01-19 - Nanotechnology

A nanotechnology approach to purifying liquid crystals

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Liquid crystals used in modern devices such as laptops, tablets and smartphones typically contain a small fraction of ionic contaminants. These ion contaminants can originate from multiple sources during the chemical synthesis of ...

Nano werk: 2017-01-23 - Nanotechnology

Nanotech business

Life In 2022: Visions Of The Future From One Of The World’s Leading Tech Companies

Medical labs ‘on a chip’ will serve as health detectives for tracing disease at the nanoscale Through nanotechnology, it will become possible to monitor your health and any developing adverse conditions from the comfort of your own home, through ...

Wall Street Pit: 2017-01-25 - Nanotech business

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
Transducers 2017 2017-06-18 - 2017-06-22 Kaohsiung, Taiwan The 19th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems
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