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thumbnailHarvard Engineers Create Big Breakthrough With Mini Robots
By integrating microfabrication techniques with high-performance composite materials that can incorporate flexural joints and bending actuators, they recently created a robot that’s the size of a penny. The milliDelta can operate with high speed ...
Assembly Mag: 2018-03-08 - MEMS technology
thumbnailToward Dynamic Metalenses
Research groups at Harvard University and the Argonne National Laboratory, USA, have now teamed up to create a dynamic metasurface lens, by marrying the metalens with an electrically controllable microelectromechanical system (MEMS) mirror (APL Photon.,
Optics and Photonics News: 2018-03-08 - MEMS technology
thumbnailQuasi-one-dimensional Metallic Conductivity for Faster, Advanced Electronics
As Materials Today puts it, “Usually, microelectronic devices are made of silicon or similar semiconductors. Recently, the electronic properties of metal oxides have become quite interesting. These materials are more complex, yet offer a broader range of ...
Greenoptimistic.com: 2018-03-04 - MEMS technology
thumbnailNew approach to measuring stickiness could aid micro-device design
The technique, described in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, could be useful in designing and building micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), devices with microscopic moving parts. At the scale of bridges or buildings, the most important force that ...
Solid State Technology: 2018-03-08 - MEMS technology
thumbnailBiocompatible electrodes could treat neurological disorders
The material is biocompatible and its conductivity remains stable over time. “The microfabrication of soft electrically conductive composites involves several challenges,” said Tybrandt. “We have developed a process to manufacture small electrodes ...
The Engineer: 2018-03-05 - MEMS technology

MEMS business

Neofluidics Announces Collaboration with Pfizer Inc.
SAN DIEGO, March 2, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Neofluidics, LLC, a microfluidics biotechnology company, announced today that it has entered into a collaboration with Pfizer Inc. (PFE) that will attempt to create a first-of-its-kind microfluidics-based platform ...
Yahoo Finance: 2018-03-02 - MEMS business
thumbnailIs TDK's Chirp Acquisition an Investment in the Future of VR?
Chirp produces a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)-based ToF sensor that uses ultrasonic transducers to track motions as precise as hand-gestures. The company sparked a lot of interest over the potential for its sensors to be used in VR and AR ...
Design News: 2018-03-05 - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

thumbnailCould nanotechnology ease orthodontic surgery?
March 8, 2018-- What if the invasiveness of orthodontic surgery could be supplanted by something kinder and gentler for patients with a severe malocclusion? Enter a novel developing technology that uses nanoparticles containing a deactivated form of ...
DrBicuspid: 2018-03-08 - Nanotechnology
thumbnailA treasure trove for nanotechnology experts
(Nanowerk News) 2D materials, which consist of a few layers of atoms, may well be the future of nanotechnology. They offer potential new applications and could be used in small, higher-performance and more energy-efficient devices. 2D materials were first ...
Nanowerk: 2018-03-06 - Nanotechnology
thumbnailThe Last Barrier To Ultra-Miniaturized Electronics Is Broken, Thanks To A New Type Of Inductor
According to Banerjee, We essentially engineered a new nanomaterial to bring forward the previously ‘hidden physics’ of kinetic inductance at room temperature and in a range of operating frequencies targeted for next-generation wireless communications.
Forbes: 2018-03-08 - Nanotechnology
thumbnailScientists reach 'significant milestone' in race to create the world's first quantum computer as they discover how to make atoms in silicon 'talk' to each other
At this micro scale, matter acts in ways that would be impossible at the macro scale of the universe we live in. Quantum mechanics allows these extremely small particles to exist in multiple states, known as 'superposition', until they are either seen or ...
Daily Mail: 2018-03-08 - Nanotechnology
thumbnailScientists develop new tool for imprinting biochips
(Image: Advanced Science Research Center at the Graduate Center, CUNY) "This is essentially a new nanoscale printer that allows us to imprint more complexity on the surface of biochip than any of the currently available commercial technologies," said Adam ...
Nanowerk: 2018-03-09 - Nanotechnology
thumbnailAll-Terrain Nanorobots Travel by Tumbling
Although other microbot concepts explored thus far have required complex designs and microfabrication methods, μTUM is made fabricated with standard photolithography techniques used in the semiconductor industry.
Machine Design: 2018-03-05 - Nanotechnology

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2018-08-01 - 2018-08-02
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