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Researchers describe how to efficiently merge microdroplets using electric field
In microfluidics the phenomenon has been applied to merging of droplets only within the last few years", says Dr Piotr Garstecki from the IPC PAS. Microfluidic devices are miniaturised chemical reactors resembling a credit card in size. ...
today Nanowerk LLC - MEMS technology
Tailored Polymer Microgels
Droplet-based microfluidics has shown great potential to provide a sufficient and elegant fabrication method for microgels. S. Seiffert (FU Berlin) highlights recent achievements in the development and use of microfluidic techniques to fabricate ...
today Materials Views - MEMS technology
Features and Applications of MEMS Clock Generators
Clock Generators are timing components which integrate the clock functionality of many different discrete devices into one semiconductor component.
ajax yesterday - MEMS technology
MEMS-Based Silicon Oscillator - Features and Benefits
Micro-Electrical Mechanical Systems (MEMS) have been greatly expanding in popularity over the past decade.
today - MEMS technology
thumbnailThermo waves may run electronic devices
In their research, Sumeet Walia and colleagues at RMIT University have outlined the creation of new semiconducting structures for the generation of thermopower waves at micro-scale - a new technology that could enable tiny power sources with ...
today Rediff - MEMS technology
One Step Closer to Clean Kinetic Energy for Your iPAD
The new technology, which comes under the general heading of microfluidics (the study of how fluids behave on a micro or nano-scale), could be embedded in shoes or boots to capture energy that would otherwise be lost as heat. ...
today CleanTechnica - MEMS technology

MEMS business

MEMS devices target auto, medical, consumer apps
STMicroelectronics NV's MEMS sensors have found their way in various motion-activated consumer devices such as smartphones, tablets, personal media players, game consoles, digital still cameras and remotes. Computer manufacturers widely use the ...
yesterday Eetasia.com (subscription) - MEMS business
Global Pico Projectors Market to Exceed 97.5 Million Units by 2017, According ...
LCOS with color sequential, Digital Light Processing (DLP), and Laser beam steering (LBS) or scanning MEMS are the other technologies currently being utilized in pico projectors. Going forward, DLP technology is forecast to attain largest market share, ...
today San Francisco Chronicle (press release) - MEMS business
Package-on-package (PoP) track at SMTAI
... for stacked chip packaging and assembly, as well as stackable packages. Topics include the challenges of die thinning and thin die attach, mixed technology die attachment and bonding, flip chip, multi-level wire bonding, TAB and TSV technologies.
today ElectroIQ - MEMS business
STMicroelectronics Delivers the Ultimate in Motion-Sensing Realism with New ...
ST's L3GD20 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 new gyroscope is pin-to-pin adaptable and software-compatible with the ...
yesterday MarketWatch (press release) - MEMS business
thumbnailAutomotive MEMS sensors recalculating for growth after 2010-2011 disruptions
August 23, 2011 -- The automotive micro electro mechanical system (MEMS) sensor market will rise in 2012, steadying after 2010-2011's cycles of growth and contraction, according to IHS iSuppli's Automotive MEMS Market Tracker. ...
yesterday ElectroIQ - MEMS business
Global Magnetic Sensors Market to Reach $3.2 Billion by 2017, According to a ...
Platforms for miniaturizing the dimensions of sensors are provided by the silicon processing and MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems) technologies. The global market for magnetic sensors was marginally impacted by the recent economic recession ...
today San Francisco Chronicle (press release) - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

thumbnailScientists design X-ray beam for flexible circuits
By Stewart Mitchell Computing circuits could be rearranged on the fly using X-ray beams, according to researchers from the London Centre for Nanotechnology. According to the researchers, the chemical-free method for generating superconductors opens new ...
today PC Pro - Nanotechnology
New nanoscale parameter resolves dilemmas on silicon property
(Nanowerk News) The new discovery by Aalto University can have major impact on future nanoscale device design, such as ultraviolet photo detectors and drug delivery. In bulk size, many materials like silicon are as brittle as glass. ...
today Nanowerk LLC - Nanotechnology
thumbnailDiscovered: Nanoscale balancing act that mirrors forces in living systems
The findings are published online in Nature Nanotechnology. In another instance of forces behaving in unexpected ways at the nanoscale, they discovered that if you start with small nanoscale building blocks that are varied enough in size, ...
today R & D Magazine - Nanotechnology
thumbnailNanoparticles can hinder intracellular transport
Nanotechnology enables scientists to customise medicines and the vehicles that deliver them to where the body needs them. Numerous animal trials have shown some promising results – but have also revealed the occurrence of undesired reactions that ...
today Nanowerk LLC - Nanotechnology

Nanotech business

thumbnailUnabomber-Inspired Group Sends Bombs to Nanotechnology Researchers
Creative Commons Monterrey In Mexico, a group of terrorists (or possibly a lone soul, trying to make it seem as if he's a member of a group) has been mailing bombs to nanotechnology researchers at major universities. The bomber(s) cite the Unabomber, ...
yesterday Popular Science - Nanotech business

Featured Event

uTAS 2011
µ5TAS 2011 continues a series of Conferences that are the premier forum for reporting research results in microfluidics, microfabrication, nanotechnology, integration, materials and surfaces, analysis and synthesis, and detection technologies for life science and chemistry. Registration opens June 1 at www.microtas2011.org.

Event Calendar

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
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BSAC Fall IAB Conference
2011-09-21 - 2011-09-23
University of CA, Berkeley
Next 25 Years of MEMS - Come join us in Berkeley to Celebrate
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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