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Racing sperm to boost results of in vitro fertilization
Demirci's lab is developing microfluidics (small devices sometimes referred to as "lab on a chip") to test new ways to sort sperm. Tüzel and his team use the physics of fluid dynamics and customized algorithms to model how sperm cells move through ...
today Medical Xpress - MEMS technology
Energy Storage On Silicon Chips — New Supercapacitor Creates Interesting ...
The great strength of the new supercapacitor is that, since its created out of silicon, it can simply be built into a silicon chip along with and at the same time as the same microelectronic circuitry that it powers. The researchers even mention the ...
yesterday CleanTechnica - MEMS technology
thumbnailTerahertz laser produces a peak power of 940 mW at about 4 THz
The researchers joined two gallium arsenide (GaAs) symmetrical laser structures (GaAs/Al0.15Ga0.85As heterostructures) together via direct wafer bonding; the joining results in a nonlinear growth of about fourfold in laser-light production. In fact ...
today Laser Focus world - MEMS technology
Femtosecond Laser Micromachining of Next-Generation Implantable Medical ...
Santa Clara, CA – October 30, 2013 – Palmaz Scientific, Spectra-Physics® and Innovative Laser Technologies (ILT) announce the demonstration of femtosecond laser micromachining of next-generation implantable medical devices. With Spectra-Physics' ...
today Optics.org - MEMS technology
thumbnailTHz QCL Hits Light Output Milestone
The researchers, led by professor Karl Rainer at the university's Institute of Photonics, used a direct wafer-bonding technique to stack two separate QCLs and increase the active region and the waveguide thickness. They found that doubling the ...
yesterday Photonics.com - MEMS technology
Tiny Sensors Put the Squeeze on Light
Microelectromechanical systems, known as MEMS, are ubiquitous in modern military systems such as gyroscopes for navigation, tiny microphones for lightweight radios, and medical biosensors for assessing the wounded. Such applications benefit from the ...
yesterday Space Daily - MEMS technology
News & Analysis Sensor Hubs Arrive for Android
A sensor hub helps manage them by performing the nine-axis sensor fusion across three triple-axis micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) inertial sensors -- accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer -- thereby freeing up the application processor to be ...
today EE Times - MEMS technology
Super-Thin Membranes Shrink Lab-on-a-Chip's Power Supply
Typical electroosmotic pumps (EOPs), which impel fluids through porous media in the presence of an electric field, are readily miniaturized, but they require bulky power sources, defeating the whole concept of portable microfluidics. Now researchers ...
yesterday Genetic Engineering News - MEMS technology

MEMS business

thumbnailTrillions of sensors to enable $15 trillion Internet of Things market by 2020
On a more personal level, Bryzek's company is preparing its own family of sensors, expected to roll out in 2014. And the entrepreneur foresees the possibility of the first billionaire in the microelectronic-mechanical systems (MEMS) in which most ...
yesterday Next Big Future - MEMS business
AIXTRON Plays Key Roles in Twodimensional Nanomaterial Projects
Graphene has the potential to revolutionize electronics in applications such as touch panel displays, lighting and fast transistors. In science and industry, researchers are already looking at further two-dimensional (2D) materials which are also ...
yesterday Compound Semiconductor - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

thumbnailPhysicists provide nanoscale insights into coral skeleton formation
Their investigations ("Microstructural evolution and nanoscale crystallography in scleractinian coral spherulites"), carried out at the nanoscale, provide valuable new information for scientists and environmentalists working to protect and conserve ...
yesterday Nanowerk - Nanotechnology
thumbnailNovel nanotechnology therapeutics silences incurable brain cancer gene
The novel therapeutic, which is based on nanotechnology, is small and nimble enough to cross the blood-brain barrier and get to where it is needed -- the brain tumor. Designed to target a specific cancer-causing gene in cells, the drug simply flips the ...
today Nanowerk - Nanotechnology

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Event Calendar

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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