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MEMS technology

thumbnailThe Parrot AR.Drone: from virtual to reality
Drone contains MEMS (micro-electromechanical systems), an accelerometer, two gyrometers, one ultrasound sensor and two cameras, one of which broadcasts and streams what the drone is seeing to the iPhone, the iPod touch or the iPad. ...
today Engineer Live - MEMS technology

MEMS business

STMicroelectronics' Newest Motion-Sensing Module Packs Five Degrees of Freedom
The module leverages the same micromachining technology process that ST has successfully applied to more than 1.2 billion motion sensors already sold in the market. Packing five degrees of freedom in a single device increases system robustness, ...
today PR Newswire (press release) - MEMS business
SiTime Achieves 50 Million Milestone for its Semiconductor Products Shipment
“SiTime is the unquestioned leader in this rapidly growing market and had an 85 percent share in 2010,” said Laurent Robin, MEMS Analyst, Yole Development. According to analysts' estimates, the Silicon MEMS timing market will be growing at a CAGR of ...
today TMC Net - MEMS business
Kionix Introduces New Accelerometers Optimized for Mobile Handsets and Tablets
The Company pioneered high-aspect-ratio silicon micromachining based on research originally conducted at Cornell University and today enjoys a global reputation for MEMS product design, process engineering and quality manufacturing. ...
today SYS-CON Media (press release) - MEMS business
thumbnailBetting on liquid TSV processes for 3D integration
A 2001 spin-off from CEA-Saclay, ten-year old French company Alchimer has grown from a chemistry research lab to become the credible provider of a cost-saving wet alternative to dry through-silicon via (TSV) processes. ...
today EE Times UK - MEMS business
Moog Acquires Crossbow Technology
"Crossbow's innovative use of MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems)-based technology in their advanced sensing products will complement Moog's established controls business and allow us to offer more comprehensive solutions to many of our existing ...
yesterday PCBDesign007 - MEMS business
Power of semiconductors fuels political change
... (<1º/hr drift) sensors for compasses; and it claims to have made the world's most complex MEMS with 4 and 5 wafer bonded stack, on-board reflective and refractive optics, 3D microfluidics, magnetically-driven actuators and a range of materials. ...
today ElectronicsWeekly.com - MEMS business
Federal Circuit Affirms Ruling That Knowles Patents Are Valid and Infringed
Knowles Electronics, LLC announced today that the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has affirmed the US International Trade Commission's (ITC) final determination that MEMS Technology Berhad's (MemsTech) importation and sale of certain MEMS ...
today National Post (registration) - MEMS business
Tablets, Cameras and Fitness Help Drive Fourfold Increase in GPS/GNSS IC ...
The ability to offer A-GPS, Wi-Fi location, and MEMs will be an important differentiator in the cellular market.” “As forecast, the market is now expanding into new vertical markets such as tablets, cameras and fitness,” says ABI Research senior ...
today Business Wire (press release) - MEMS business
The 2011 "Best of Sensors Expo" Award Winners Announced
This year's event is co-located with the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) Chicago and features a MEMS Pavilion, Energy Harvesting Pavilion and Technology Update Theater. Conference sessions focus on today's most important sensing trends and ...
today Gamut News (press release) - MEMS business
Inspection system tackles TSV packaging
Rudolph says the system also provides inspection capabilities for edge-trimming metrology, wafer alignment during bonding processes, sawn wafers on film frames, and other TSV-related processes. The NSX 320 incorporates Rudolph's XSoft software ...
today Test & Measurement World - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

thumbnailA 'green' nanomaterial to remove organic impurities from waste water
(Nanowerk Spotlight) Water treatment is important for human consumption and environmental protection. Non-trivial purification of water involves removal of toxic ions, organic impurities, microbes and their by-products as well as scooping oil spills. ...
today Nanowerk LLC - Nanotechnology
Super-mini vehicles carry therapeutics and imaging agents into body with mega ...
"Nanoscale self-assembly devices are complex structures organized from simpler subcomponents - either naturally occurring or engineered - which assume complex structures difficult to attain by chemical synthesis," said the paper's corresponding author ...
today EurekAlert (press release) - Nanotechnology
thumbnailPolice could use fingerprint technology to reopen cold cases
By PoliceOne Staff Scientists are using nanotechnology to develop ways to recover fingerprints from old evidence, says a BBC News article. Traditional techniques cannot detect dry and weak fingerprints, but the new technology developed in Australia ...
today Police News - Nanotechnology
thumbnailNanophobic or Nanophilic?
Nanotechnology is, of course, nowhere so advanced as to be commercializing self-aware automatons, but good progress is being made, with developments and improvements to existing technologies and new applications, and 'nano-something' becoming ...
today Nanotechnology News (press release) - Nanotechnology

Featured Event

IEEE MEMS 2012
Reflecting the rapid growth of the MEMS field and the commitment and success of its research community, the IEEE MEMS Conference series has evolved into a premier annual event in the MEMS area.This Conference reflects from the rapid proliferation of the commitment and success of the Microsystems research community. Call for abstracts deadline is September 13, 2011. For more information, visit www.mems2012.org.

Event Calendar

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
Technologies for Future Micro and Nano Manufacturing
2011-08-08 - 2011-08-10
Napa, California
Stimulating domestic micro and nano manufacturing
COMS 2011
2011-08-28 - 2011-08-31
Greensboro NC
Commercialization of Micro - Nano Systems
Visit MNX at this event.
MicroTAS 2011
2011-10-02 - 2011-10-06
Seattle, Washington
The 15th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences
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
Visit MNX at this event.
IEEE MEMS 2012
2012-01-29 - 2012-02-02
Paris, France
Focus on Strategies for Reducing Time and Cost of MEMS Testing
Hilton Head Workshop 2012
2012-06-03 - 2012-06-07
Hilton Head Island, SC
A Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Workshop

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