MEMS technology

Crash sensor boosts safety in warehouses

A more effective and reliable protection is afforded by a new monitoring system developed by researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems IMS in Duisburg, in collaboration with IWS Handling GmbH. ...

today PhysOrg.com - MEMS technology

DNA detection for rapid HIV diagnosis

'Traditional technology requires many operational steps in separate units or requires complex equipment,' says Xingyu Jiang, an expert in microfabrication and immunoassays at the National Centre for Nanoscience and Technology of China in Beijing. ...

today Chemistry World - MEMS technology

Momentum builds for 3-D chips

Many wonder if mainstream 3-D chips based on through-silicon-via (TSV) technology is feasible-or will even fly-amid ongoing problems in the arena. The progress remains slow and the technology still appears to be in the ''power point'' stage. ...

today EETimes.com - MEMS technology

Is That a Drum in Your Pants, or… No, That's a Drum in Your Pants

As for the playable beach-towel-sized mat, it's a project out of the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) and is made by stamping widely used gadgets called microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) onto plastic. MEMS are thin machines that ...

today Discover Magazine (blog) - MEMS technology

Making sense of MEMS

This process, known as bulk micromachining, was commercialised during the late 1970s and early 1980s, but a number of other etching and micromachining concepts and techniques have since been developed. The first micromachined pressure sensors – or ...

today New Electronics - MEMS technology

MEMS business

Reportlinker Adds Ferroelectric Thin Films Markets

Ferroelectric thin films have been used for many years in Integrated Passives Devices (IPDs), Ferroelectric memories (FeRAM) and MEMS inkjet heads. Such thin films can be used for ferroelectric, piezoelectric or pyroelectric properties. ...

yesterday PR Newswire (press release) - MEMS business

Knowles Acoustics Unveils Ultra Low-Power MEMS Joystick

Considering this very fact, Knowles Acoustics, the premier global supplier of advanced micro-acoustic and human interface solutions, has launched the ultra low-power MEMS Joystick, for consumer handheld devices. The versatile MEMS Joystick can be ...

yesterday TMC Net - MEMS business

Reportlinker Adds Motion Sensors for Consumer & Mobile Applications

The MEMS accelerometer market will show very nice business opportunities in the coming years. Moreover this market will be strategic for many applications are expected to rely on 3-axis accelerometer + 3-axis gyroscope in a single package within 2015. ...

yesterday PR Newswire (press release) - MEMS business

Digitimes Insight: Japan earthquake has limited impact on MEMS industry supply ...

InvenSense also outsources production to foundries including Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), Touch Micro-system Technology (TMT) and Dalsa Semiconductor. Failure of supplies from Japan should have minimal impact on its business. ...

today Digitimes - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Getting the point: Real-time monitoring of atomic-microscope probes adjusts ...

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a way to measure the wear and degradation of the microscopic probes used to study nanoscale structures in situ and as it's happening. Their technique can both ...

today Science Centric - Nanotechnology

Carbon-Nanotube Cancer Detector Can Catch Even a Single Marauding, Malignant Cell

Next Up: The scientists are currently tweaking the device to try to catch HIV. Reference: Grace D. Chen et al. “Nanoporous Elements in Microfluidics for Multiscale Manipulation of Bioparticles.” Small. DOI: 10.1002/smll.201002076.

yesterday Discover Magazine (blog) - Nanotechnology

New nanomaterial can detect and neutralize explosives | Science Codex

ANAHEIM, March 31, 2011 — Scientists today described development and successful initial tests of a spray-on material that both detects and renders harmless the genre of terrorist explosives responsible for government restrictions on ...

News yesterday - Nanotechnology

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