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The Center for Polymer Microfabrication is designing processes for manufacturing microfluidic chips. Pictured here is a closeup of a chip fabricated by the center's tailor-made production machines. The Center for Polymer Microfabrication designs ...
yesterday MIT News - MEMS technology
thumbnail'Cyberplasm,' a Micro-Robot Modeled After the Sea Lamprey, Could Swim Around ...
US Fish and Wildlife Service Tiny microelectromechanical machines running Magic Schoolbus-style through our bodies are the pursuit of nano labs across the globe, but a team of researchers jointly backed by the American National Science Foundation and ...
yesterday Popular Science - MEMS technology

MEMS business

Akustica Introduces High-Performance Analog MEMS Microphone for Mobile Device ...
The AKU340 uses proven surface-micromachining MEMS technology devised by Bosch, the parent company of Akustica. The omnidirectional analog-output microphone has a form factor of 2.5x3.35x1.0 mm and delivers better low frequency recording with a reduced ...
today AZoNano.com - MEMS business
thumbnailSUSS MicroTec Acquires Tamarack Scientific and Expands Technology Competence ...
Tamarack develops, manufactures and distributes UV projection lithography systems as well as laser micro-structuring tools for the Advanced Packaging, 3D Integration, MEMS and LED markets. These systems are used in high volume industrial manufacturing ...
today Nanowerk LLC - MEMS business
Mobile Device Segment is a Shining Light in Lackluster Semiconductor Market as ...
Shipments of mobile devices such as smartphones, media tablets, and e-book readers are growing fast and are driving growth for a range of semiconductor components including modems, applications processors, wireless connectivity ICs, MEMS sensors, ...
today MarketWatch (press release) - MEMS business
GenMark Enters into License Agreement with PerkinElmer for Microfluidics ...
(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 29, 2012 - GenMark Diagnostics, Inc. (NASDAQ: GNMK), announced today that it has entered into a license agreement with PerkinElmer, granting GenMark a non-exclusive license under PerkinElmer's microfluidics patent portfolio.
today PharmaLive.com (press release) - MEMS business
thumbnailDOD Commits $80 Million To Microprocessor Research
... of devices and materials on a common silicon substrate would allow circuit designers to select the best device for each function within their designs," said Thomas Lee, office director of DARPA's microsystems technology office, in a statement.
today InformationWeek - MEMS business
thumbnailBlock MEMS LLC landed a contract with the DoD for its LaserScan Analyzer.
By Patricia Resende Spectrometer and laser scanner maker Block MEMS LLC has landed a contract with the Department of Defense's Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense (JPEO-CBD). The Marlborough-based company will provide its ...
today Mass High Tech - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

thumbnailQuantum Plasmon Resonance Illuminated
STANFORD, Calif., March 29, 2012 — Plasmon resonance at the nanoscale, the phenomenon responsible for the vibrant hues of the stained-glass windows at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, can kill cancer cells and has the potential to drive forward quantum ...
today Photonics.com - Nanotechnology
thumbnailNoxious nanotech: Water-borne nanomaterials promote multidrug-resistance gene ...
We believe that our findings dramatically improve the development of medical, healthcare and environmental technology and practices, and make nanomaterial applications more secure.” Further afield, Qiu and Li conclude that important technologies and ...
today PhysOrg.com - Nanotechnology
Nanotube fabric could let you charge your phone by walking
By Doug Gross, CNN That's the promise of Power Felt, a new creation of nanotechnology researchers at Wake Forest University. It's a fabric, made up of tiny carbon nanotubes locked in flexible plastic fibers, that uses temperature differences to create ...
today CNN (blog) - Nanotechnology
thumbnailNew Path for Light through Metal Found
Helping bridge the gap between photonics and electronics, researchers have coaxed a thin film of titanium nitride into transporting plasmons, tiny electron excitations coupled to light that can direct and manipulate optical signals on the nanoscale.
yesterday Scientific Computing - Nanotechnology
thumbnailGraphene Nanosensor Tattooed to Teeth Detects Bacteria
So, despite some reluctance on my part to cover dental-related nanotechnologies, let's look once again at the latest nanotechnology being used with teeth. The technology involves a nanosensor made out of graphene that can detect bacteria in our mouths ...
today IEEE Spectrum - Nanotechnology
thumbnailNanotechnology Used to Measure Low Concentrations of Cyanide Ion in Water
Iranian researchers successfully measured low concentrations of the toxic and harmful cyanide ion in aqueous environments by using nanotechnology. "Synthetic silver nanoparticles were used in the research as the colorimetric sensor in order to measure ...
yesterday Nanotechnology News (press release) - Nanotechnology
thumbnailMicroprocessors from pencil lead
Resembling chicken wire on a nanoscale, graphene—single sheets of graphite—is only one atom thick, making it the world's thinnest material. Two million graphene sheets stacked up would not be as thick as a credit card. The tricky part physicists have ...
today R & D Magazine - Nanotechnology

Nanotech business

thumbnailNASA Lands $75000 in Patent Auction
The market can be cruel, but it doesn't lie: Software development algorithms are worth more than cool nanotechnology swarming technologies. That's what the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) found out this week when it tried to ...
today Wired News - Nanotech business
thumbnailMultiple groups claim to create first silicene sheets
(Nanowerk News) Since its discovery in 2004, graphene -- sheets of carbon an atom thick -- has sparked a flurry of research into the nanomaterial's potential applications for blazing fast, tiny electronics. Now, several research groups claim to have ...
today Nanowerk LLC - Nanotech business

Featured Event

MEMS In Motion Collaboration Summit
September 12-13, 2012. Meet with the best, the brightest, the innovative; they are the hard-to-reach industry thought-leaders.
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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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