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Electronic 'Tattoo' May Offer New Flexible Way to Monitor Brain, Heart
By Elizabeth Lopatto - Thu Aug 11 18:27:28 GMT 2011 Weightless, skin-like bandages with microelectronic components may one day replace the bulky monitors and electrode patches now used in hospitals to monitor patients' vital signs, researchers said. ...
today Bloomberg - MEMS technology
thumbnailPower the Stereo by Driving Through Potholes
The new sensors, developed by MicroGen Systems and Cornell University researchers at the school's NanoScale Facility, pair with a thin-film battery to apply the same principles, giving a boost to any attached device. Unfortunately, a vibration-only ...
yesterday Wired (blog) - MEMS technology
Graphene could underpin carbon-based electronics
This is a crucial stumbling-block if the material is ever going to be used for microelectronic devices such as transistors that act to control the flow of current to perform tasks and computations. To achieve this one must be able to create an ...
today The Engineer - MEMS technology
thumbnailNext Generation: Hundreds of Cell-Analyses at Once
By Edyta Zielinska | August 11, 2011 THE DEVICE: Like a pinball machine, the tiny stationary levers within this new microfluidics chip, direct cells into compartments just large enough to fit one cell. With 300 compartments per chip (a number that ...
today Scientist - MEMS technology
Video: MEMS-Enabled Artificial Lung
The idea was that microfabrication technology developed at Draper for sensors used in defense, aerospace, and commercial products such as digital cameras and the Nintendo Wii game controller might help create an artificial lung with microchannels that ...
today Design News - MEMS technology

MEMS business

thumbnailMEMS-based Viscometer is used for liquid flow management.
August 11, 2011 - Supporting range of applications, µVISC(TM) (micro VISC) employs VROC® (Viscometer Rheometer on-a-chip) with HC chip that supports testing of viscosity ranges to 20000 mPas or greater. Tests can be completed within 1 min with 3-step ...
today ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press release) - MEMS business
Ultrafast laser from Calmar Laser provides up to 500 mW output at 50 MHz
This product family is used in many diverse applications, such as multiphoton imaging, ophthalmology, micromachining, seeding Ti:sapphire amplifiers, terahertz generation, metrology, etc. Designed for OEM and scientific biophotonics applications, ...
today OptoIQ - MEMS business
iNEMI workshop to focus on MEMS needs & opportunities
The International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (iNEMI), with support from MEMS Industry Group (MIG), is planning a MEMS workshop immediately following the European Microelectronics and Packaging Conference (EMPC), September 15-16, in Brighton, ...
today ECNmag.com - MEMS business
CES adds MEMS program for 2012
MEMS TechZone showcases the adoption of MEMS, micro electro mechanical systems, in mobile phones, game consoles, tablet PCs and other consumer-electronic devices. MIG will co-exhibit with several members including Bosch/Bosch Sensortec/Akustica, ...
today ElectroIQ - MEMS business
ISSYS / NanoGetters to Deliver Talk on MEMS Vacuum Packaging at COMS 2011
The use of various wafer bonding and packaging methods will be include in the talk with respect to internal product development and obtaining this technology as a part of a MEMS foundry service. NanoGetters services more than 40 customers in the MEMS ...
today ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press release) - MEMS business
CMSF Corp. Has Consummated the Acquisition of Plures Technologies, Inc.
... it has consummated the acquisition of Plures Technologies, Inc. Plures's primary business at the present time is the ownership and operation of its Advanced MicroSensors Corporation subsidiary's MEMS and magnetics fab in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. ...
yesterday MarketWatch (press release) - MEMS business
thumbnailReport: Mexico MEMS profs hurt in bomb attack
They have ties to the school's engineering sciences unit, which includes robotics, microsystems, optics, and electronics, as well as materials research. The AP report cites a different intended victim, Oscar Camacho, who works in microelectromechanical ...
yesterday ElectroIQ - MEMS business
RELY research project: New ways of chip design methodology
The RELY research project, which sets out to design new development processes for tomorrow's microelectronic systems and to integrate new reliability and safety criteria, is supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) with ...
today electronicsfeed.com - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Researchers observe nanoscale charge transport in bulk heterojunction solar cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in the CNST have used photoconductive atomic force microscopy (PCAFM) to characterize the nanoscale structure of organic photovoltaic (OPV) materials, and have performed a careful assessment of the strengths and weaknesses ...
today PhysOrg.com - Nanotechnology
From Solar Paint to Instant Battery Charge, Future Looks Great for Nanotechnology
These advancements in nanotechnology (the science of small things), are transforming the way researchers approach some of our greatest challenges. How about solar cells embedded in paint to turn your house into one big solar panel? ...
today Solar Novus Today - Nanotechnology
thumbnailCoherent diffractive imaging in living color
This new research technique is expected to improve imaging on the nanoscale in the quest for advances in pharmaceutical development and new materials for next-generation technologies. The researchers, from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coherent ...
today PhysOrg.com - Nanotechnology

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Event Calendar

MEMS Executive Congress Preview
2011-08-17
Webinar - 11:30 AM ET, 8:30 AM PT
New Prototyping Technologies Reduce Time to Market
2011-08-25
Webinar - 11:30 AM ET, 8:30 AM PT
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 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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