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thumbnailWorld's smallest video camera is less than a millimeter across
They're based on the TSV (Through Silicon Via) method, which enables miniaturization and helps keep costs down. A dedicated 0.66x0.66 mm CMOS sensor provides high image resolution at 45000 pixels, and the camera uses the company's own digital video ...
today TG Daily - MEMS technology
thumbnailIntel claims 'unprecedented' boost in chip architecture
The new chip's performance goes beyond what Intel could have achieved with a 22-nm process using the older planar design found in its current 32-nm products, the officials explained. Performance is maintained at lower voltages, where transistor gate ...
today GCN.com - MEMS technology

MEMS business

Dutch Company SolMateS Enables Next Generation of MEMS Products
It marks the beginning of a whole new era of MEMS and will be used to create essential components for the next-generation mobile electronics, thin film actuators and medical devices. PiezoFlare 1200 is a revolutionary manufacturing ...
today - MEMS business
iPhone ambient light sensor could receive upgrade from new Apple supplier
Citing its industry sources in the Far East, DigiTimes reported Thursday that Capella Microsystems is in talks with Apple to become a component supplier. That would make it the first Taiwan-based integrated circuit manufacturer to land orders from the ...
today Apple Insider - MEMS business
TSMC waiting till 20nm to introduce 3D transistors
TSMC will wait till the 20nm process node to introduce 3D transistors, lagging Intel who said yesterday they would introduce the technology at 22nm. Last year TSMC said it had developed a complete high-performance 22/20nm CMOS logic process using ...
today ElectronicsWeekly.com - MEMS business
thumbnail3D Transistors? We Don't Need 'Em, AMD's Foundry Says
McCarron called the new transistor model "essentially an evolutionary argument," and one that Intel picked after evaluating other approaches. Although most modern PCs seem to have "good enough" microprocessor and graphics options, manufacturing is a ...
today PC Magazine - MEMS business
STATS prepares for TSV 3D
STATS ChipPAC announced it is expanding its 300mm Through Silicon Via (TSV) offering with the addition of mid-end manufacturing capabilities. TSV is an important developing technology that utilises short vertical interconnections through a silicon ...
today EuroAsia Semiconductor - MEMS business
thumbnailIntel Announces first 22nm 3D Tri-Gate Transistors, Shipping in 2H 2011
Earlier today Intel announced that its 22nm process would not use conventional planar transistors but rather be the first time Intel is using 3D Tri-Gate transistors. This is a huge announcement that fuels Intel's leadership in the ...
yesterday AnandTech - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Revolutionary new paper computer shows flexible future for ...
Nokia's Morph nanotechnology concept device to benefit from graphene (w/video). Posted: May 4th, 2011. European Commission funds 10-year, 1000 million euro coordination action on graphene. Posted: May 4th, 2011 ...
yesterday - Nanotechnology
thumbnailNew Method for Boosting the Light Output of Green LEDs — A Critical Step ...
The research team, led by Christian Wetzel, professor of physics and the Wellfleet Constellation Professor of Future Chips at Rensselaer, etched a nanoscale pattern at the interface between the LED's sapphire base and the layer of gallium nitride (GaN) ...
yesterday Manufacturing.net - Nanotechnology
thumbnailMeasurement of 'hot' electrons could have solar energy payoff
"We're merging the optics of nanoscale antennas with the electronics of semiconductors," said lead researcher Naomi Halas, Rice's Stanley C. Moore Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering. "There's no practical way to directly detect infrared ...
today PhysOrg.com - Nanotechnology
thumbnailTurning coal into methane using nanotechnology
Mechanical engineering professor Sushanta Mitra is experimenting with a variety of microbial materials that release methane from coal. (PhysOrg.com) -- University of Alberta researcher wants to adapt a bioconversion process that occurs naturally over ...
today PhysOrg.com (press release) - Nanotechnology

Featured Event

SENSORS Tech Forum '11 Boston
Over the past 10 years, the worldwide sensor market has grown into a $50+ billion industry. This incredible growth is driven by fast-paced advances in sensor system technologies that has led to a boom in new and creative applications.. SENSORS Tech Forum has developed a high-level educational conference covering real-world innovations in sensors and sensor networking specific to: Aerospace, Automotive, Energy, Defense, Medical and Industrial applications and surrounded that content with industry leading sensor and related technology companies in a creative exhibitor setting conducive to doing business. Attending SENSORS Tech Forum... one smart decision!

Event Calendar

How to Turn Your Technology Company into a Market-Driven Profit Machine
2011-05-10
Online - May 10, 2011 11:30am ET
Turn YOUR company into a market-driven profit machine
MEPTEC 9th Annual MEMS Symposium
2011-05-19
Wyndham San Jose, CA
MEMS - Driving Innovation. Existing Technologies Enable Future Innovations
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EIPBN 2011 ("3-Beams")
2011-05-31 - 2011-06-03
Las Vegas NV
World's Leading Symposium on Lithography and Nanofabrication
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Transducers' 11
2011-06-05 - 2011-06-09
Beijing, China
The 16th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems
Sensors Expo & Conference 2011
2011-06-07 - 2011-06-08
Rosemont, IL
Focused on sensors and sensor integrated systems, providing over 25 years of technical innovation and thought leadership.
Visit MNX at Booth 94.
Microtech Conference & Expo 2011
2011-06-13 - 2011-06-16
Boston MA
Uniting innovators to bring microtechnology from laboratory to marketplace
COMS 2011
2011-08-28 - 2011-08-31
Greensboro NC
Commercialization of Micro - Nano Systems
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SENSORS Tech Forum '11 Boston
2011-10-10 - 2011-10-12
Boston, MA
NASA Tech Briefs Presents SENSORS Tech Forum
MEMS Executive Congress 2011
2011-11-02 - 2011-11-03
Monterey, CA
Connecting the MEMS supply chain with MEMS end-users
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