Knowing when to fold: Engineers use 'nano-origami' to build tiny electronic...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Folding paper into shapes such as a crane or a butterfly is challenging enough for most people. Now imagine trying to fold something that's about a hundred times thinner than a human...
View ArticleImec's SiGe MEMS technology platform improves performance of state-of-the-art...
Imec researchers demonstrated the value of its SiGe above-IC MEMS technology platform for improving performance of state-of-the-art MEMS with the development of new MEMS devices. The new devices are a...
View ArticleWorld’s first diamond nanoelectromechanical switch
Japanese researchers have succeeded in the batch fabrication of suspended structures (cantilevers and bridges) of single crystal diamond for nano/micro electromechanical systems.
View ArticleMicrotechnology: An alignment assignment
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), which consist of tiny moving parts driven by electrical signals, have found ready applications in optical communication systems. They are attractive in part...
View ArticleGiant piezoelectric effect to improve MEMS devices
Researchers in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Materials Research Institute at Penn State are part of a multidisciplinary team of researchers from universities and national...
View ArticleNew microtweezers may build tiny 'MEMS' structures
Researchers have created new "microtweezers" capable of manipulating objects to build tiny structures, print coatings to make advanced sensors, and grab and position live stem cell spheres for research.
View ArticleStudents painlessly measure knee joint fluids in annual Sandia contest
Texas Tech University repeated last year's victory in the novel design category of Sandia National Laboratories' annual competition to design new, extraordinarily tiny devices, while Carnegie Mellon...
View ArticleLow-cost MEMS fabrication technology using a replica molding technique
Researchers at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), have developed a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) device fabrication technology that uses only printing...
View Article220-300C low-melting glass for hermetic sealing: Gold-tin solder level...
Hitachi today announced the successful development of a 220-300C low-melting temperature glass ("low-melting glass"). This glass was developed as a low temperature sealant which does not contain...
View ArticleFirst precise MEMS output measurement technique unveiled
The commercial application of MEMS, or micro-electro-mechanical systems, will receive a major boost today following the presentation of a brand new way to accurately measure the power requirements and...
View ArticleTiny 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...
View ArticleNew chip provides better bioimaging performance
A microelectromechanical system developed in Singapore provides the 360-degree view that is critical in diagnostic imaging.
View ArticleMicrotechnology: Double-layer capping solves two problems
Continual downsizing of technology means that researchers have to develop ever more ingenious methods of packaging and protecting their tiny devices. Jae-Wung Lee and co-workers at the A*STAR Institute...
View ArticleThin diamond films provide new material for micro-machines
(Phys.org) —Airbags, inkjet printers and video projectors may not seem to have much in common, but all three rely on the action of tiny, microscale devices in order to work properly.
View ArticleMEMS sensors and platforms to build a hyper-attentive world of objects
Ever wonder how your smartphone got so smart? It stores pictures right-side up, knows where the North Star is, and always brings you home. This spatial acumen originates from micrometer-sized devices...
View ArticleA new avenue for MEMS-based sensor design
Mr Pradyumna Thiruvenkatanathan, a second year doctoral student in Engineering, is the recipient of the best student paper award in the sensors and transducers sub-field at the IEEE Frequency Control...
View ArticleHP Enables Better, Faster Decision Making with Breakthrough Sensing Technology
HP today announced new inertial sensing technology that enables the development of digital micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) accelerometers that are up to 1,000 times more sensitive than...
View ArticleMicromachined piezoelectric harvester drives fully autonomous wireless sensor
For the first time, a piezoelectric harvesting device fabricated by MEMS technology generates a record of 85μW electrical power from vibrations. A wafer level packaging method was developed for...
View ArticleResearch focuses on implementing radio frequency MEMS resonators on a silicon...
Semiconductor Research Corporation and Cornell University researchers are working to advance on-chip silicon development to enable new generations of smaller and more sophisticated mobile electronic...
View ArticleDevice for capturing signatures uses tiny LEDs created with piezo-phototronic...
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology want to put your signature up in lights – tiny lights, that is. Using thousands of nanometer-scale wires, the researchers have developed a sensor...
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