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MEMS technology

Back-barrier enhancements to AlN/GaN HEMTs
France's Institute of Electronic, Microelectronic and Nanotechnology (IEMN) has added a back-barrier to its aluminum nitride-on-gallium nitride (AlN/GaN) high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) to increase electron confinement and hence low ...
today Semiconductor Today - MEMS technology
thumbnailLasers + Microscopic Mirrors = Holographic Movies
At that scale, the waves of light interfere with each other and create an interference pattern that produces a three-dimensional image. The whole contraption is called a micro-electromechanical system -- or MEMS for short.
today Discovery News - MEMS technology
InAs/InGaAs QDs for ultra-high speed communication
The researchers used nanoscale InAs/InGaAs quantum dots grown on GaAs, in a band consisting of wavelengths in the 1.3-μm region that are not currently used for optical communication. What's more, the researchers say they have developed an optical ...
yesterday Compound Semiconductor - MEMS technology

MEMS business

Daktari dealt $5M in new funding round
The company licensed intellectual property around microfluidics and cell detection from Massachusetts General Hospital, which has agreed to waive all royalties for sales of products to developing countries. A message left for founder and CEO Bill ...
yesterday Mass High Tech - MEMS business
Thin-Film Solar Maker Stion Pulls in $130 Million Equity Investment
Lead investor AVACO makes solar thin-film processing equipment, and will work with Stion to develop next generation production equipment, focusing on lowering costs, improving tool productivity and increasing module ...
admin today - MEMS business
TSV Activity Revving Up To Realize True 3D IC Packages
Tezzaron is building with several partners this prototype 3D TSV IC demonstration device. It contains an ARM processor stack, an off-the-shelf FPGA die, and a DRAM memory stack, all assembled onto an active silicon circuit ...
yesterday - MEMS business
Bosch fabs 2M MEMS sensors
Bosch developed bulk and surface micromachining in the 1980s, known as the "Bosch process," and began MEMS production in 1995. The company makes MEMS sensors for the automotive and consumer sectors, via its Automotive Electronics division and Sensortec ...
yesterday ElectroIQ - MEMS business
TSMC repeats call for foundry-centric 2.5/3D industry
Let's get over it and move our resources elsewhere," indicated that Nvidia is likely to use a turnkey solution such as TSMC is offering with such 2.5D TSV solutions entering the Nvidia roadmap with their TESLA and CUDA high end networking GPU product ...
today ElectroIQ - MEMS business
Grant to help improve quality of deformable mirrors
The grant, awarded as part of NASA's Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR), will enable Boston Micromachines to develop a microfabrication process that will improve the quality of DMs to correct for these residual aberrations, resulting in ...
today Vision Systems Design - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Holographic 3-D looks tantalizingly closer in 2012
PhysOrg has a short article about a company called “Imec” that hopes to make holographic TV a reality in 2012 through an interesting nanoscale silicon processes. In their nanoscale system, they work with chips made by growing a layer of silicon oxide ...
yesterday VizWorld.com - Nanotechnology
thumbnailThe art of molecular carpet-weaving
Molecular carpets, as the nanotechnology industry would like to have them are as yet in no danger of offending the gods. A team of physicists headed by Dr. Markus Lackinger from the Technische Universität München (TUM) und Professor Thomas Bein from ...
today Nanowerk LLC - Nanotechnology

Nanotech business

The Nanotechnology Revolution
Nanotechnology, which dramatically alters the way that materials are put together, is emerging as the latest entrant on that list. "Nanotechnology has the potential to be the most revolutionary development in this century," said Jack W. Plunkett, ...
today energybiz - Nanotech business

Featured Event

SPIE Photonics West 2012
Hear the latest MEMs research at the MOEMS-MEMS symposium at SPIE Photonics West. With over 19,000 attendees Photonics West is the largest photonics and laser event in North America. Plan to attend the event, 21 - 26 January 2012 at The Moscone Center in San Francisco, California, and hear cutting-edge conferences, experience industry-leading courses, and see over 1,150 companies at the exhibition.

Event Calendar

2012 Consumer Electronics Association - MEMS TechZone
2012-01-10 - 2012-01-13
Las Vegas NV
MEMS has an official home at CES
MEMS Conference Session at CES 2012
2012-01-11
10:30-11:30am LVCC, North Hall, Room N254 Las Vegas, NV
We are living in a digital world where the mobile device rules supreme
Webinar - Improving Performance of New MEMS Designs
2012-01-17
Online - Tuesday, January 17, 2012 | 11:30 AM ET, 8:30 AM PT
An Insider's Look at imec's SiGe above-IC MEMS Technology Platform
SPIE Photonics West 2012
2012-01-21 - 2012-01-26
San Francisco CA
The world's leading photonics, laser, and biomedical optics conference
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
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
Visit MNX at this event.
Sensors Expo & Conference 2012
2012-06-06 - 2012-06-07
Rosemont (Chicago) IL
Providing over 25 Years of Technical Innovation & Thought Leadership
ACTUATOR 2012
2012-06-18 - 2012-06-20
Bremen, Germany
International Conference and Exhibition on New Actuators and Drive Systems
TechConnect World Summit & Innovation Showcase
2012-06-18 - 2012-06-21
Santa Clara CA
Increase your Innovation Pipeline!
SEMICON West 2012
2012-07-10 - 2012-07-12
San Francisco CA
Connect to Buyers, Grow your Business!

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