MEMS technology

Camera carrying insects set to aid search and rescue teams: The project is funded by the US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and is entitled the Hybrid Insect Micro Electromechanical Systems program. Researchers have already developed a device able to generate power from the wing motion of a ...

yesterday Telegraph.co.uk - MEMS technology
Video: A bot smart enough to pipette: For instance, Harvard's professor George Whitesides pioneered that with microfluidics. A Wired story called microfluidics like computer chips with plumbing — likely to become an important part of medical technology in the future. ...

2011-12-25 SmartPlanet.com (blog) - MEMS technology
IMEC working with holograms, mirrored pixels to prevent 3D movie headaches: A group of researchers at IMEC believes that holographic video might be the best way around this problem and has been working on a means of constructing holographic displays by shining lasers on microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) platforms capable ...

2011-12-25 Engadget - MEMS technology
Researchers Say Molybdenite Could Replace Silicon in Chips: "The main advantage of MoS2 is that it allows us to reduce the size of transistors, and thus to further miniaturize them," said Andras Kis, director at the Laboratory of Nanoscale Electronics and Structures (LANES) at EPFL. "It has not been possible up ...

2011-12-25 Tom's Hardware Guide - MEMS technology

MEMS business

An analyst's take on the Lam-Novellus deal: A combined Lam-Novellus will give customers an alternative to Applied Materials Inc.'s through-silcon-via (TSV) process and result in a company that can create some synergy between the etch and deposition processes, providing more competition for ...

today EE Times (blog) - MEMS business
Thin-Film Solar Maker Stion Pulls in $130 Million Equity Investment: Lead investor AVACO makes solar thin-film processing equipment, and will work with Stion to develop next generation production equipment, focusing on lowering costs, improving tool productivity and increasing module efficiency.

2011-12-23 SustainableBusiness.com - MEMS business
InvenSense: Underwriters Start Gyro Maker at Buy: This picture of a 3-D MEMS-based sensor device is from Schneider's initiation on InvenSense. Shares of semiconductor designer InvenSense (INVN) are down 49 cents, or almost 5%, at $9.81 after the company today was initiated upon by the underwriters of ...

today Barron's (blog) - MEMS business
I-Micronews - MICROFLUIDICS : Quanterix develops microfluidic ...: MICROFLUIDICS. Dec 24th, 2011. Quanterix develops microfluidic consumable that will enable next generation molecular diagnostic systems based on Single Molecule Array Technology. Lab on a Chip publication highlights performance of ...

2011-12-24 - MEMS business
Comprehensive Report Discusses Advanced IC Packaging Materials, Technologies ...: The report predicts that the TSV market will increase from 35 billion units in the fiscal year 2010 to more than 54 billion units in the fiscal year 2015. TSVs with three-dimensional interconnection forms a die stack having the shortest length of ...

yesterday Azom.com - MEMS business
Hamamatsu Offers New Thermopile Products Featuring MEMS and ...: Each features CMOS circuitry, and was developed with Hamamatsu's MEMS technology. Samples will be available to manufacturers of home electronics, industrial equipment, and security devices from October 1, 2011. ...

Don yesterday - MEMS business
Advanced package technologies' growth through 2015: TSVs/3D interconnect creates a die stack with short interconnection distance for high speed, low power consumption, reduced parasitics, and small form factor. Vias go through the silicon, electrically connecting the die vertically. ...

today ElectroIQ - MEMS business
Silicon MEMS Gyro Takes on Fiber Optic Gyros: STIM210 300x225 Mechanical gyroscopes use a top-like mechanism spinning at high speed to detect angular position and provide high precision but at a high price. In contrast, fiber optic gyros (FOG) have minimal moving ...

Randy Frank 2011-12-23 - MEMS business
Single-Channel A/B Switch serves fiber optic networks; QuickSwitch[R] Model ...: Transparent to service protocol, bit-rate, and data, switch employs MEMS-based mirror/prism technology. The new Model 6301 Single Channel LC Duplex A/B Switch with Telnetand GUI Remote Control has just been added to Electro Standards' line of ...

2011-12-24 ElectroIQ - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology Shines a Light Inside Cells: (Courtesy of Berkeley Lab) By Kat Piper Using nanotechnology, scientists have developed an optical probe that can be used to see inside living cells. The nanowire endoscope, developed by researchers with the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley ...

yesterday NTDTV - Nanotechnology
Researcher to Explore Use of Nanotechnology in Developing Gene Therapies: The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases has awarded a $395000 grant to Conforti for over two years to study the use of nanotechnology in delivering gene therapies in patients suffering from autoimmune diseases, ...

yesterday AZoNano.com - Nanotechnology
Hologram-on-a-wafer may be the answer to the problem of bad 3D: One seemingly promising new technique for creating holograms comes from IMEC over in Belgium, where researchers are working to create a nanoscale system of moving pixels. Measuring half a micron squared in area, these so-called pixels are used to ...

yesterday The Verge - Nanotechnology
'Reverse' spectroscopy approach clarifies molecular structure: Recognizing this, researchers at the University of Twente's MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology (Enschede, The Netherlands) adopted a "reverse" approach to spectroscopy, which cleans up images by eliminating background noise. Rather than starting with a ...

today BioOptics World - Nanotechnology

Nanotech business

CEO Discusses Roles and Impact of Six Nanotechnology Topics: By Cameron Chai Nanofilm's Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Scott Rickert has discussed about six nanotechnology topics to be looked at in the fiscal year 2012 and their impact on the US economy in his nanotechnology column in Industry Week. ...

yesterday AZoNano.com - Nanotech business

Featured Event

Hear the latest MEMs research at the MOEMS-MEMS symposium at SPIE Photonics West. With over 19,000 attendees Photonics West is the largest photonics and laser event in North America. Plan to attend the event, 21 - 26 January 2012 at The Moscone Center in San Francisco, California, and hear cutting-edge conferences, experience industry-leading courses, and see over 1,150 companies at the exhibition.

Event Calendar

2012 Consumer Electronics Association - MEMS TechZone 2012-01-10 - 2012-01-13 Las Vegas NV MEMS has an official home at CES
MEMS Conference Session at CES 2012 2012-01-11 10:30-11:30am LVCC, North Hall, Room N254 Las Vegas, NV We are living in a digital world where the mobile device rules supreme
Webinar - Improving Performance of New MEMS Designs 2012-01-17 Online - Tuesday, January 17, 2012 \| 11:30 AM ET, 8:30 AM PT An Insider's Look at imec's SiGe above-IC MEMS Technology Platform
SPIE Photonics West 2012 2012-01-21 - 2012-01-26 San Francisco CA The world's leading photonics, laser, and biomedical optics conference Visit MNX at this event.
IEEE MEMS 2012 2012-01-29 - 2012-02-02 Paris, France Focus on Strategies for Reducing Time and Cost of MEMS Testing
MM / MEMS / NANO Live USA 2012-03-07 - 2012-03-08 Rosemont (Chicago) IL
MEMS Executive Congress 2012 2012-03-20 Zurich, Switzerland MEMS Industry Group event co-located with Smart Systems Integration
MicroManufacturing and NanoManufacturing 2012-03-28 - 2012-03-29 Boston, MA The Power of Connecting. Your Next Customer is Here!
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
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!