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Perfect iPad Add-On for Engineers Uses MEMS
The Kickstarter crowdfunding site has helped launch a startup leveraging micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) chips to create the perfect iPad add-on for engineers -- a cover that allows pen-and-paper schematics to be digitized in real time.
today EE Times - MEMS technology
thumbnailVideo: next-gen ultrasonic gesture interfaces ready for smartphones
The system uses microelectromechanical microphones and transducers to emit and detect sound waves sent over the ultrasonic spectrum (above 20kHz). The system measures when these soundwaves are interrupted, allowing it to track a wide range of ...
today The Independent - MEMS technology
thumbnailNexus 5 radical camera specs
It's said that that the Nexus 5 will take advantage of MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) technology and one of the benefits of this is faster focusing, up to seven times faster in fact than competing cameras. It you want to see much more on MEMS ...
today Phones Review - MEMS technology
How Thermal Transistors Could Control MEMs devices
But there are other uses too, such as in microelectromechanical machines where heat can be used to move microscopic devices such as cantilevers. The ability to switch this motion on and off using thermal transistors is an idea with great potential ...
today MIT Technology Review - MEMS technology
NIR quantitative phase imaging enables label-free cell imaging through silicon
... biomedical community and continually pushing the edge of biophotonic solutions. “We envision that this significantly expands the visualization possible in silicon based microelectronic and micromechanical devices,” he says. Full details of the work ...
yesterday BioOptics World - MEMS technology
thumbnailNew EVG roll-to-roll system
EV Group (EVG), a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, has introduced the EVG570R2R, which the company claims is the industry's first roll-to-roll thermal nanoimprint lithography ...
today Digitimes - MEMS technology

MEMS business

thumbnailNexus 5 release date, news and rumors
Here's what we said earlier: "MEMS stands for microelectromechanical technology, and it provides a number of benefits, including focusing that's seven times faster than competitive cameras. The Nexus 5's MEMS camera also reportedly uses less power and ...
today TechRadar UK - MEMS business
thumbnailResearch and Markets: Emerging MEMS Report 2013: Motivated by Smart ...
Innovation in MEMS no longer comes solely from new devices, but also from the integration of mature MEMS technologies into new applications. Along with mature devices used for new applications (e.g. pressure for LBS), innovation in new MEMS devices is ...
yesterday SYS-CON Media (press release) - MEMS business
Measurement Specialties Makes Forbes Top 100 List
MEAS uses multiple advanced technologies -- piezo-resistive silicon sensors, application-specific integrated circuits, micro-electromechanical systems ("MEMS"), piezoelectric polymers, foil strain gauges, force balance systems, fluid capacitive devices ...
today Wall Street Journal - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

thumbnailNanotechnology lab fabricates all-carbon nanotube electronic devices
(Nanowerk News) A research team at Tsinghua University, led by Shoushan Fan, has fabricated single-wall carbon nanotube (SWCNT) thin films with different nanotube densities and transferred them to flexible substrates serving as electrodes and channel ...
today Nanowerk - Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology for solar cell applications - graphene-based materials
Graphene-based nanomaterials have many promising applications in energy-related areas. In particular, there are four major energy-related areas where graphene will have an impact: solar cells, supercapacitors, lithium-ion ...
yesterday - Nanotechnology
thumbnailTwo-dimensional atomic layered materials and their applications
The high elastic modulus and electrical properties of SWCNTs also make them an attractive candidate for nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) for high-frequency and low-actuation-voltage devices.Vertically oriented carbon nanofibers, where the ...
today SPIE Newsroom - Nanotechnology
thumbnailNanotechnology researchers find rust can power up artificial photosynthesis
(Nanowerk News) Nanotechnology researchers at Boston College have achieved a series of breakthroughs in their efforts to develop an economical means of harnessing artificial photosynthesis by narrowing the voltage gap between the two crucial ...
today Nanowerk - Nanotechnology

Nanotech business

thumbnailThere Is No Nanotechnology Equivalent to the Digital Divide
A recent article in the venerable Financial Times proposed a sort of nanotechnology equivalent to the oft-mentioned “digital divide (the idea that the benefits of digital technology appear to accrue to the wealthy while the poor are left out). At issue ...
yesterday IEEE Spectrum - Nanotech business

Featured Event

AVS 60th International Symposium & Exhibition
The AVS International Symposium and Exhibition addresses cutting-edge issues associated with materials, processing, and interfaces in both the research and manufacturing communities. The weeklong Symposium fosters a multidisciplinary environment that cuts across traditional boundaries between disciplines, featuring papers from AVS technical divisions, technology groups, and focus topics on emerging technologies. The equipment exhibition is one of the largest in the world and provides an excellent opportunity to view the latest products and services offered by over 200 participating companies. More than 2,000 scientists and engineers gather from around the world to attend.

Event Calendar

Trillion Sensors Summit
2013-10-23 - 2013-10-25
Stanford, CA
AVS 60th International Symposium & Exhibition
2013-10-27 - 2013-11-01
Long Beach, CA
MicroTAS 2013
2013-10-27 - 2013-10-31
Freiburg, Germany
The 17th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences
Flexible MEMS Solutions
2013-10-31
Online 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM ET
Michelle Bourke, Business Group Director, Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology
MEMS in Motion Collaboration Summit
2013-11-04 - 2013-11-06
Sonoma Renaissance Resort & Spa Hotel, CA, USA
A networking-focused event exclusively for inertial devices
MIG MEMS Executive Congress U.S.
2013-11-07 - 2013-11-08
Napa, CA
Meet your next customer at MEMS Executive Congress!
Manufacturing Trends for Consumer Inertial MEMS
2013-11-13
Online 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM ET
Laurent Robin, Activity Leader Inertial MEMS Devices & Technologies, Yole Developpement & Michael McLaughlin, Business Development - Yole Inc.
2013 3D ASIP
2013-12-11 - 2013-12-13
Burlingame, CA
3D Architectures for Semiconductor Integration and Packaging
The 27th International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems
2014-01-26 - 2014-01-30
San Francisco, CA
SPIE Photonics West 2014
2014-02-01 - 2014-02-06
San Francisco, CA
SPIE Advanced Lithography 2014
2014-02-23 - 2014-02-27
San Jose, CA
The 9th Annual IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems
2014-04-13 - 2014-04-16
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

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