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New Capacitive Displacement Sensors Improve Performance
The displacement resolution demands of the semiconductor, disk-drive, precision bearing and micromachining industries have recently pushed capacitive sensors to their resolution limits. Continuing advances in these industries require sensor resolution ...
today MeasurementDevices - MEMS technology
thumbnailIFTLE 103 2012 IMAPS AZ Device Pkging Conf; Fujitsu Low Temp Cu-Cu Bonding
Laura Mauer of SSEC discussed silicon wafer thinning to reveal Cu TSV. The standard via reveal processis shown below. SSEC contends that a KOH wet etch process can be used for the final Si removal without etching the oxide liner.
today ElectroIQ (blog) - MEMS technology
A new generation of acoustic measurements
However, this method imposes limits on the types of microphone which can be calibrated, meaning that non-standard microphones and new technologies such as MEMS (microelectromechanical) sensors cannot be tested and calibrated. Optical techniques are the ...
today Phys.Org - MEMS technology
This Tiny Flying Robot Is Built Like a Pop-Up Book
To start with, they borrowed a trick from printed circuit microelectromechanical systems (PC-MEMS for short), the technology used in an accelerometer chip, for example (aka the thing inside your iPad that lets you use it as a lightsaber).
2012-05-26 PCWorld (blog) - MEMS technology

MEMS business

thumbnailSlideshow: MEMS in the midnight sun
Recently I was fortunate enough to be invited on a tour of the vibrant MEMS cluster that exists in the hinterland immediately north of Helsinki, Finland. I arrived at Helsinki airport on the evening flight from London at 11pm and it was still a ...
today EE Times - MEMS business
EV Group receives first-ever ranking among top five best suppliers of chip ...
EV Group (EVG), a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, has announced that for the first time, its customers have ranked EVG as one of VLSI research's top five 10 Best Focused ...
yesterday Electronics Manufacture & Test - MEMS business
Murata completes VTI Technologies buy, announces Murata Electronics Oy
May 28, 2012 - BUSINESS WIRE -- VTI Technologies, a leading manufacturer of 3D micro electro mechanical system (MEMS) sensors that has formed part of Murata since January 2012, is now Murata Electronics Oy. Following the acquisition of VTI Technologies ...
yesterday ElectroIQ - MEMS business
Knowles Updates on SiSonic MEMS Microphone Shipments
Knowles, a provider of micro acoustics and MEMS microphone technology, announced it has shipped over three billion SiSonic MEMS microphones. In a release dated May 16, the Company said that this achievement highlights the exponential growth of MEMS ...
today ElectroIQ - MEMS business
Ziptronix and Customer Pursue Lower-Cost 3D Memory With DBI(R) Wafer Bonding ...
A new customer collaboration at Ziptronix Inc., the leading developer of direct bonding technology for advanced semiconductor applications, is showing strong potential for major cost savings in 3D memory applications, by replacing standard die-stacking ...
today MarketWatch (press release) - MEMS business
thumbnailMEMS wafer maker Okmetic outsources amid SOI push
Okmetic has prospered over the last couple of years as a supplier of wafers for the booming microelectromechanical system (MEMS) market. The company was a 83.2 million euro business (about $100 million) in 2011 and in the first quarter of 2012 about 46 ...
yesterday EE Times - MEMS business
thumbnailRicoh develops ink jettable piezoelectric material for future MEMS
The lead-free material can therefore be used to make micro electro mechanical system (MEMS). Ricoh will first manufacture a prototype of an actuator, then work on technical solutions, targeting commercialization. Piezo MEMS are used to monitor seismic ...
today ElectroIQ - MEMS business
Big Meeting to See the Very Small
Everybody who's anybody when it comes to making really tiny machines beat a path to our region earlier this month to check out the microsystems lab at Carnegie Mellon University. CMU hosted a first-ever conference of the leadership of about three dozen ...
today ImaginePittsburgh Now - MEMS business
This report forecasts the MEMS Packaging industry to reach $2.3B value by 2016 ...
The report provides technical insight about key MEMS packaging technology trends & challenges, from MEMS-ASIC integration trends (SiP module versus SOC) to interconnect trends (wire-bond versus flip-chip versus WLP / TSV) to substrate approach (ceramic ...
today Virtual Press Office (press release) - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

field effect transistors using graphene and hexagonal boron nitride on a 75 ...
The answer may lie in new nanoscale systems based on ultrathin layers of materials with exotic properties. Called two-dimensional layered materials, these systems could be important for microelectronics, various types of hypersensitive sensors, ...
yesterday Next Big Future - Nanotechnology
thumbnailResearchers Develop New Technique to Cut Graphene with Accurate Control
The novel mechanism has been developed on the basis of nanoscale force feedback and involves an atomic force microscope-based nanorobot. The research titled 'Graphene Control Cutting Using an Atomic Force Microscope Based NanoRobot' has been reported ...
today AZoNano.com - Nanotechnology
thumbnailFunctionalizing living cells through nanotechnology
Receive a convenient email notification whenever a new Nanowerk Nanotechnology Spotlight posts. Become a Spotlight guest author! Have you just published a scientific paper or have other exciting developments to share with the nanotechnology community?
today Nanowerk LLC - Nanotechnology
thumbnailResearchers develop nanotubes to reduce battery costs
According to a report on Nanotechnology Now's website, these nanotubes can be up to 10000 times thinner than a human hair. This technology could replace platinum as a catalyst in batteries, which is a major long-term goal in developing affordable ...
today The Stanford Daily - Nanotechnology
thumbnailFrequency stabilization in nonlinear nanomechanical oscillators
(Nanowerk News) Using Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM) expertise in the design and fabrication of micro- and nanoscale devices, a new strategy for engineering low-frequency noise oscillators capitalizes on the intrinsic nonlinear phenomena of ...
yesterday Nanowerk LLC - Nanotechnology
thumbnailStanford University researchers set their sights on carbon nanotubes to solve ...
By John Max Nanotechnology may hold the key to the future of hydrogen fuel cells and other hydrogen-based technologies. Hydrogen fuel cells have long been host to a sleuth of technological problems concerning efficiency and cost.
today Hydrogen Fuel News - Nanotechnology

Nanotech business

thumbnailNanotechnology Now an Unseen Success
Some nanotechnology research labs and upstarts are supplying resins and chemicals that contain nanotechnology. For example Nano-Tex, which supplies Aquapel to Dick's Sporting Goods and other companies, sells chemicals that coat fabric.
today CNBC.com - Nanotech business

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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
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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!
SENSORS Tech Forum '12
2012-10-01 - 2012-10-03
Anaheim, CA
The Sensors Technology Industry Is Abuzz... Find Out What All the Buzz is About
AVS 59th International Symposium and Exhibition
2012-10-28 - 2012-11-02
Tampa Florida
MEMS Executive Congress US 2012
2012-11-07 - 2012-11-08
Scottsdale AZ
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
SPIE Photonics West 2013
2013-02-02 - 2013-02-07
San Francisco CA
The Conference and Marketplace for the Photonics, Biophotonics, and Laser Industry
SPIE Advanced Lithography 2013
2013-02-24 - 2013-02-28
San Jose, CA
The world's premier semiconductor lithography conference and exhibition

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