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thumbnailA Quick, Cheap Diagnostic Test for HIV and Other Infections
A simple microfluidics chip could improve health care in poor countries by making rapid diagnostic testing a reality. By Emily Singer A small plastic chip that costs just 10 cents to make can reliably diagnose HIV and syphilis within about 15 minutes. ...
today MIT Technology Review - MEMS technology
thumbnailScientists build a battery thinner than a human hair
The tiny device is 150 nanometers thick (it takes 1 billion nanometers to equal a single meter) and proves that lithium ion technology can work on a micro scale previously thought impossible. Each of these batteries is about the thickness of a human ...
today Digitaltrends.com - MEMS technology

MEMS business

thumbnailMEMS maker Synkera recognized in CO
Its main products include ceramic micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS), chemical sensors, and ceramic membranes. Primary markets include bio/life sciences; gas separation; and environment, health, and safety (EHS). The company is led by president ...
today ElectroIQ - MEMS business
ST's MEMS Module Provides Six Degrees of Freedom in Advanced Motion-Sensing ...
The module leverages the same micromachining technology process that the Company has successfully applied to more than 1.4 billion motion sensors already sold in the market. The device is pin-to-pin and software-compatible with the recently announced ...
2011-07-29 Sacramento Bee - MEMS business
Wafer & crystal demand for LEDs, MEMS, and semiconductor chips fuels plant ...
EVG, a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology, and semiconductor markets, broke ground on expanding the company's manufacturing capacity at its headquarters in Austria. The company has seen a 40% increase in ...
2011-07-29 OptoIQ - MEMS business
MEMS Suppliers and OEM End-users to Explore “MEMS in the ...
MEMS Industry Group (MIG) hosts MEMS Executive Congress 2011, the annual business conference and networking event for the MEMS industry, November 2-3, 2011 in Monterey, CA. Keynote speakers include strategy consultant ...
MEMS Industry Group today - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology: Entering the matrix
(Nanowerk News) One of the advantages of the bottom-up fabrication of nanostructures is that self-assembly can offer a convenient way of fabricating structures that are too complex to be made in a top-down process. Shengyang Yang, Cai-Feng Wang and Su ...
today Nanowerk LLC - Nanotechnology
thumbnailNanodevices: A piezoelectric combination
Nanoscale structures of ZnO also exhibit piezoelectricity. Graphene, on the other hand, merges excellent electrical properties with high optical transparency and flexibility, making it an ideal material in a variety of applications, including as a ...
today Nanowerk LLC - Nanotechnology
thumbnailResearchers Create Smallest Battery Ever Made
It's the smallest battery ever made, and it could end up powering a whole generation of nanotechnology. The potential of nanotechnology—the practice of building machines so small that they can't even be seen—has been talked about for decades. ...
today PC Magazine - Nanotechnology
Power of Nanotechnology Revealed in Research on Lithium Reactive Nanomaterials ...
Nanotechnology continues to transform a wide variety of processes and Elsevier shares these nanotechnology breakthroughs through books and journals. The Elsevier journal Nano Today highlighted the major roles of nanosize in lithium reactive ...
today DigitalJournal.com (press release) - Nanotechnology
All New Edition of Nanotechnology For Dummies Hits Stores
(Nanowerk News) Wiley Publishing recently published an all-new edition of this introductory guide to nanotechnology. The authors, Earl Boysen and Nancy Muir Boysen have completely rewritten the second edition of this book to cover nanotechnology basics ...
today Nanowerk LLC - Nanotechnology
Thermoelectric power may soon hit automotive sector
The solution lies in thermoelectric devices, and engineers at the A. James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland, are challenging previous assumptions about the behavior of the nanoscale materials used to build them. ...
today American Recycler Newspaper - Nanotechnology
New Graphene-Tin Electrodes Could Improve Lithium Batteries
Researchers at the United States Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have created a graphene and tin nanoscale composite material for rechargable lithium-ion batteries that allows quick and repeated charging without degradation ...
today EV World - Nanotechnology
Georgia researchers develop memory devices based on piezoelectric nanowires
These piezotronic memory elements provide another component needed for fabricating complete self-powered nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) on a single chip. Wang's research team has already demonstrated other key elements such as nanogenerators, ...
today EE Herald - Nanotechnology
thumbnailNorthwestern Researchers Develop Technique for Prototyping Nanoscale Devices
By Cameron Chai Researchers at Northwestern University have introduced a novel technique to create rapid prototypes of nanoscale structures and devices using a print head that is so cost-effective that it can be even disposed after process completion. ...
2011-07-30 AZoNano.com - Nanotechnology

Featured Event

Technologies for Future Micro and Nano Manufacturing
The 2011 Workshop on Technologies for Future Micro and Nano Manufacturing will bring together leaders from government, industry, and academia to discuss technology and policy issues relevant to stimulating domestic micro and nano manufacturing. Sponsored by the Transducer Research Foundation. Click here to register.

Event Calendar

Technologies for Future Micro and Nano Manufacturing
2011-08-08 - 2011-08-10
Napa, California
Stimulating domestic micro and nano manufacturing
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COMS 2011
2011-08-28 - 2011-08-31
Greensboro NC
Commercialization of Micro - Nano Systems
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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 in Motion Collaboration Summit
2011-10-12 - 2011-10-13
Palm Springs, CA
It's not who you know today. It's who you're going to need to know tomorrow.
MEMS Testing and Reliability Conference
2011-10-20
San Jose CA
Increase yields, decrease waste and increase profitability for your company
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.
American Manufacturing Strategies Summit 2011
2011-11-07 - 2011-11-08
Chicago IL
Network with 150 + senior level manufacturing professionals from many disciplines.
SPIE Photonics West 2012
2012-01-21 - 2012-01-26
San Francisco CA
The world's leading photonics, laser, and biomedical optics conference
IEEE MEMS 2012
2012-01-29 - 2012-02-02
Paris, France
Focus on Strategies for Reducing Time and Cost of MEMS Testing
MEMS Executive Congress 2012
2012-03-20
Zurich, Switzerland
MEMS Industry Group event co-located with Smart Systems Integration
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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