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MEMS technology

thumbnailMEMS Switches for Low-Power Logic
Mechanical Logic: This six-terminal relay [bottom], which boasts a 7.5-square-micrometer gate, and the larger four-terminal relay [top] are built so their gates and channels hover above the rest of the switch. Click on either image to enlarge.
2012-03-30 IEEE Spectrum - MEMS technology
thumbnailNew resonator overcomes obstacle to ultimate nanolaser
The new instruments – a 1.5-µm laser and a 1.38-µm “thresholdless” laser that funnels all of its protons into lasing without any waste – were developed by electrical engineers in the Ultrafast and Nanoscale Optics Group at the University of California, ...
today Photonics.com - MEMS technology
thumbnailMIT Research Center Designs Production Processes to Mass Produce Microfluidic ...
By Cameron Chai Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)'s multidisciplinary research group, the Center for Polymer Microfabrication is designing production processes for microfluidics from the scratch in order to mass produce microfluidic devices.
2012-03-30 AZoNano.com - MEMS technology
thumbnailPower without the cord
The engineering of microelectronic implants has since advanced by leaps and bounds: they have become ever-smaller and more technologically sophisticated. The trend is moving toward miniaturized, intelligent systems that will take over therapeutic and ...
today PhysOrg.com - MEMS technology

MEMS business

Mobile device chip market grew 20% in 2011, says ABI
The range of semiconductor components including modem ICs, application processors, wireless connectivity ICs, MEMS sensors, and audio ICs. Platform ICs – including modems, application processors and RF chips – account for the bulk of revenues, ...
today EE Times - MEMS business
thumbnailIFTLE 95 3DIC – Time Flies When You're Having Fun; Further Details on the ...
A short month later, March 2005 I felt like a prophet when a TSV based 3D stacking approach was described by Intel's Justin Rattner (todays CTO) at the Spring Developer Forum, with statements like “...stacked wafers and stacked dies using thru-silicon ...
today ElectroIQ (blog) - MEMS business
DARPA Seeks Integration Of Diverse Microsystems Components On ...
High-performance microsystems are vital for a wide variety of DoD systems that provide U.S. warfighters with technological surprise over adversaries in areas such as communications, sensing and electronic warfare. Current ...
Alton Parrish yesterday - MEMS business
Suss MicroTec buys projection litho tool vendor
develops, manufactures and distributes UV projection lithography systems as well as laser micro-structuring tools for advanced packaging, 3-D integration, MEMS and LEDs. Suss (Garching, Germany) said the acquisition is part of its consolidation ...
today EE Times - MEMS business
Research and Markets: 2012 Sensors and MEMS Report
Sensors and MEMS, ICs on micro or nano-scale, are a major piece of the overall semiconductor market and widely used in numerous different end segments. This is a growing market, as the processes for creating semiconductors even smaller and more precise ...
today SunHerald.com - MEMS business
Block MEMS Wins Contract to Participate in the...
Block MEMS has been awarded a contract by the US Department of Defense's Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense (JPEO-CBD) to provide its LaserScan Analyzer for evaluation in the Multi-Mission Multi-Threat Detection (M3TD) ...
today defpro - MEMS business
Kionix Chooses Eyelit's Integrated MES Software
... and photovoltaic (solar) industries, announced that Kionix, a company focused on the design and fabrication of MEMS-based inertial sensors, has selected Eyelit Manufacturing software to support production at its manufacturing facility in Ithaca, ...
today ElectroIQ - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

thumbnailA user's guide to nanotechnology
Nanotechnology is technology that operates on the nanoscale, about one billionth of a metre. If a living cell were a large city, then a nanometre would be about the size of a car. Nanotechnology is the art of engineering down at this hard-to-fathom ...
2012-03-30 The Guardian - Nanotechnology
thumbnailScientists Build Scales That Can Weigh a Single Proton
In research reported in Nature Nanotechnology, scientists from the Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology in Barcelona, Spain, explain that they use nanotubes, which vibrate at different frequencies depending on the mass of particles or molecules resting ...
today Gizmodo - Nanotechnology
thumbnailGraphene Study Results Pave Way to Advance Electronic Circuit Technology
The team also discovered that boron nitride not only offers mechanical support but also enhances the nanomaterial's electronic properties by stabilizing electronic charge fluctuations. The research team's latest results, reported in Nature Physics, ...
today Azom.com - Nanotechnology

Featured Event

AVS 59th International Symposium and Exhibition
The AVS 59th International Symposium and Exhibition will be held October 28-November 2, 2012, at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, Florida. Highlights include an extensive collection of technical sessions, exhibitor technology spotlights, short courses, and a free to attend equipment exhibition. Abstracts of original work are now being accepted at www.avs.org through May 2, 2012.

Event Calendar

MEMS and Nano in Diagnostics: Clinical and Investment Perspectives
2012-04-10
Webinar - 11:30 AM ET, 8:30 AM PT
M2M Forum 2012 (MEMS Industry Group)
2012-05-08 - 2012-05-09
Pittsburgh PA
Focus on Technical Challenges to MEMS Commercialization
Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2012
2012-06-03 - 2012-06-07
San Francisco CA
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
IMS 2012 International Microwave Symposium
2012-06-17 - 2012-06-22
Montreal Canada
Celebrate the 60th anniversary of both the Microwave Theory and Techniques Society and the International Microwave Symposium
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!
45th Int'l Symposium on Microelectronics
2012-09-09 - 2012-09-13
San Diego CA
Bringing Together The Entire Microelectronics Supply Chain!
MEMS in Motion Collaboration Summit
2012-09-12 - 2012-09-13
Palm Springs, CA
Collaboration & Networking on Steroids!
AVS 59th International Symposium and Exhibition
2012-10-28 - 2012-11-02
Tampa Florida
PowerMEMS 2012
2012-12-02 - 2012-12-05
Atlanta, Georgia
The 12th International Workshop on Micro and Nanotechnology for Power Generation and Energy Conversion Applications

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