MEMS technology

MEMS everywhere, finally its in speakers too

Using of MEMS microphone in mobile phones and such audio communication/recording devices is more common now due to the advantages of MEMS microphone offers over other types of microphones. It is now the time for speakers to use mems technology for ...

EE Herald: 2017-03-14 - MEMS technology

Accessible Microfluidics Devices With Ultimaker

Researchers at Cardiff University use 3D printing to create small devices that move small volumes of fluid and are used in various areas of research. 3D printing makes it possible to share the devices with other researchers, making the study of ...

electronics-lab.com: 2017-03-10 - MEMS technology

Bend, stretch, and touch: Locating a finger on an actively deformed transparent sensor array

Microelectromechanical system devices sense capacitances that are 1000 times smaller (37) than those of our devices, suggesting that operation with micrometer resolution is possible if desired. With flexible displays having been implemented by Sony ...

advances.sciencemag.org: 2017-03-15 - MEMS technology

Quantum key system could make mobile transactions far more secure

A position sensing detector on the other side measures the precise location of the beacon and moves a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) mirror to align the incoming light with the fiber optics of the detector. The team tested their idea with a handheld ...

Phys: 2017-03-15 - MEMS technology

Microfluidics Team at Cardiff University Democratizing Research With 3D Printing

Advancing “lab-on-a-chip” microfluidics devices, Cardiff University researchers open their designs up to rapidly prototype new developments. Researchers at Cardiff University in Wales are making great use of 3D printing in the advancement of microfluidics.

all3dp.com: 2017-03-10 - MEMS technology

MEMS business

Love Music? Hackers May Be Using It To Take Over Your Smartphone

These kinds of technologies are referred to as Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), and the capacitive MEMS accelerometer is one of the most widely used sensor systems in many gadgets ranging from consumer gadgets, to implanted medical devices ...

Wall Street Pit: 2017-03-15 - MEMS business

SMIC Signs License Agreement For Invensas' DBI(R) Technology

DBI 3D interconnect can eliminate the need for thru silicon vias (TSVs) reducing die size and cost while providing a roadmap to pixel level interconnect for future generations of image sensors. "We are thrilled to enter into this licensing agreement with ...

NASDAQ: 2017-03-15 - MEMS business

Kraft Heinz experience could be warning for Toshiba

Since 2015, for example, U.S. regulatory bodies have blocked Chinese corporations from buying American chipmakers out of fear of advanced microfabrication technologies draining out of the U.S. and into China. This is a practical way to deal with a security ...

asia.nikkei.com: 2017-03-08 - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Need Some Extra Storage? Try DNA

"It was pretty manual and not scalable. The lesson that we had learned from the microfabrication semiconductor industry was you needed to come up with a way to put them essentially in a two-dimensional plane and then scale down the feature size. Neither of ...

PC Magazine: 2017-03-09 - Nanotechnology

New nanotechnology implant could one day help restore sight

(Nanowerk News) A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego and La Jolla-based startup Nanovision Biosciences Inc. have developed the nanotechnology and wireless electronics for a new type of retinal prosthesis that brings research a step ...

Nano werk: 2017-03-13 - Nanotechnology

Soon IBM's silicon expertise could enable labs on chips capable of detecting nanoscale health clues

Since then, it has released 5 in 5 annually and previous predictions included being able to touch via a mobile phone and that computers would be able to hear what matters. Other predictions included personal energy harvesting, biological passwords, air ...

New Electronics: 2017-03-14 - Nanotechnology

Imaging at the speed of light

Now the team has developed a technique to visualize, for the first time, the complete evolution of micro- and nanoscale structural formation on a material's surface both during and after the application of a laser pulse. Tiny micro- and nanoscale ...

Science Daily: 2017-03-15 - Nanotechnology

Nanoscale logic machines go beyond binary computing

(Left) The four states of the atom correspond to (right) the four rooms of a maze. The random nature of tunneling electrons in and out of an atom simulates the movement of people between rooms of the maze, and can optimize the solutions to certain maze ...

Phys: 2017-03-14 - Nanotechnology

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Event Calendar

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
ADAS Sensors 2017 2017-05-17 - 2017-05-18 Detroit, Michigan Annual Conference & Exhibition
MEPTEC 2017 2017-06-06 San Jose, CA 15th Annual MEPTEC MEMS & Sensors Technology Symposium
ASE 2017 2017-06-14 - 2017-06-15 Detroit, Michigan Automotive Sensors and Electronics Expo
Transducers 2017 2017-06-18 - 2017-06-22 Kaohsiung, Taiwan The 19th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems
Sensors Expo and Conference 2017 2017-06-27 - 2017-06-29 San Jose CA
MEMS Testing & Reliability 2017 2017-08-01 Santa Clara, CA Workshop and Exhibition
MEMS Manufacturing 2017 2017-08-02 - 2017-08-03 Santa Clara, CA Annual Conference and Exhibition
Napa Microsystems Workshop 2017 2017-08-21 - 2017-08-23 Napa, California The fourth workshop in the Transducers Research Foundation's Napa Institute Series