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MEMS technology

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and University of Colorado Boulder (CU) have developed a low-power microchip that uses a combination of microfluidics and magnetic switches to trap and transport magnetic beads. ...

2011-10-14 Lab Manager Laboratory News - MEMS technology

Progress in quantum computing, qubit by qubit

''We've designed everything in parallel in a massive system, which allows us to make thousands or millions of devices with more or less the same properties, and we use conventional microfabrication and nanofabrication techniques, unlike what has been ...

2011-10-15 domain-B - MEMS technology

Scientists Develop Nanochannel Electroporation Device for Precise Control of ...

The Ohio State University team claims that while delivery methods based on bulk electroporation (BEP), or even microfluidics-based electroporation (MEP) rely on endocytic processes to complete the delivery of large biomolecules molecules into cells, ...

today Genetic Engineering News - MEMS technology

Integrated Design and Full-Wave Analysis of Mixed-Signal 3D Package Designs

Figure 3 shows an S-Parameter model representing 3D interconnect. If users want to modify the combined 3D structure, then they should be able to launch the 3D solver editor from the S-Parameter symbol to bring the detailed structure up for editing and ...

2011-10-14 Chip Design Magazine - MEMS technology

Small Satellites Prompt Big Ideas for Next 25 Years

Janson flagged the onslaught of advances in micro- and nanoelectronics, microelectromechanical (MEM) systems, solar cell technologies, global positioning systems, and the Internet itself. Toss in for good measure personal computers, he said, ...

today Space.com - MEMS technology

MEMS business

STMicroelectronics implements TSV in MEMS chips

STMicroelectronics has implemented Through-Silicon Via technology (TSV) in high-volume MEMS production. TSV replaces traditional wiring with short vertical interconnects in ST's multi-chip MEMS devices, such as smart sensors and multi-axis inertial ...

today EE Herald - MEMS business

Chip Makers Intensify Race in 3D DRAM Market | Semiconductor ...

EV Group, along with Fraunhofer, are looking to extend temporary bonding/debonding processes to support chip-to-wafer bonding with higher levels of topography up to 600 microns thick-a critical step in ramping 3D ICs to ...

mark 2011-10-14 - MEMS business

License signed for micro-cantilever MEMS sensing technology

By Isaac Leung on 17 October 2011 PANORAMA Synergy has licensed optical technologies from University of Western Australia related to highly sensitive measurements by multiple, simultaneous micro-cantilever MEMS sensors. The technology is being ...

yesterday Electronics News - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Six rules for nano-design

One of the big challenges facing nanotechnology researchers is understanding how particles interact at the nanoscale, in order to design devices that are robust and reliable. Now, a group of scientists in the US has formulated a set of basic rules that ...

today physicsworld.com - Nanotechnology

Breakthrough nano method of gene delivery developed

L. James Lee, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Ohio State University and colleagues successfully inserted specific doses of an anti-cancer gene into individual leukemia cells to kill them, the journal Nature Nanotechnology reports. ...

yesterday Deccan Herald - Nanotechnology

Carbon nanotubes: Pure storage power

Storing mechanical energy on the nanoscale could also lead to some interesting device applications. Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been investigated for this purpose, but it has proved difficult to create the strong, defect-free CNTs needed to withstand ...

today Nanowerk LLC - Nanotechnology

Using DNA To Shape Nanostructures

And we now have effectively created a system that allows you to print structures that would have to be printed using a - tens of millions of dollars worth of equipment in terms of microfabrication at the point of use. We call it desktop fab, you know, ...

2011-10-14 NPR - Nanotechnology

New Nanoscale Material Could Allow Computer Chips To Rewire Themselves

Scientists at Northwestern University have not found a way around this problem exactly, but they have been developing a nanoscale material that could allow chips to become more powerful and more efficient without necessarily making them smaller. ...

today Geekosystem - Nanotechnology

Autonomous nanomotor based on a true nanobattery

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The catalytic conversion of chemical to mechanical energy, which is ubiquitous in biological systems, also is the basis for many of the engine systems that nanotechnology researchers are developing. Catalytic 'engines' will be key ...

today Nanowerk LLC - Nanotechnology

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Event Calendar

Modeling and Simulation of Nano/Microsystems Contest 2011-08-29 - 2011-10-31 University of Michigan
GSA Silicon Series 2011-10-20 Boston, MA Investing in Motion: MEMS Inertial Sensors
MEMS Testing and Reliability Conference 2011-10-20 Santa Clara CA Increase yields, decrease waste and increase profitability for your company
Technology Platform for Various MEMS Scanner Products 2011-10-20 Webinar - 11:30 AM ET, 8:30 AM PT An Approach to Overcome MEMS Law
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.
3-D Architectures for Semiconductor Integration and Packaging 2011-12-12 - 2011-12-14 Burlingame, California Today's Manufacturing Advances, Tomorrow's Impact and Opportunity
2012 Consumer Electronics Association - MEMS TechZone 2012-01-10 - 2012-01-13 Las Vegas NV MEMS has an official home at CES
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
MM / MEMS / NANO Live USA 2012-03-07 - 2012-03-08 Rosemont (Chicago) IL
MEMS Executive Congress 2012 2012-03-20 Zurich, Switzerland MEMS Industry Group event co-located with Smart Systems Integration
MicroManufacturing and NanoManufacturing 2012-03-28 - 2012-03-29 Boston, MA The Power of Connecting. Your Next Customer is Here!
Hilton Head Workshop 2012 2012-06-03 - 2012-06-07 Hilton Head Island, SC A Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Workshop
Sensors Expo & Conference 2012 2012-06-06 - 2012-06-07 Rosemont (Chicago) IL Providing over 25 Years of Technical Innovation & Thought Leadership