News tagged with electro mechanical devices

DIY micro-technology for SMEs

A European project has developed a one-stop shop to support companies, especially SMEs, in the rapid design and manufacture of novel micro-devices for use in applications ranging from medical diagnosis to ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 23, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A 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 conference. ...

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Rapid testing of food quality

Whether fruit, meat or cheese - the quality of food is not always as consumers would like it to be. But, in future, a spectrometer will allow them to gage the quality of food before they buy it. No bigger ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

International team to demonstrate first heralded single-photon generation from a silicon chip

An international consortium of researchers has overcome an important barrier to the generation of single photons using a tiny, chip-scale device constructed from the most widely used material underpinning ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 01, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Medical 'lightsabers': Laser scalpels get ultrafast, ultra-accurate, and ultra-compact makeover

Whether surgeons slice with a traditional scalpel or cut away with a surgical laser, most medical operations end up removing some healthy tissue, along with the bad. This means that for delicate areas like ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

MHI develops 12-inch wafer bonding machine capable of producing 3-D integrated LSI circuits at room temperature

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd (MHI) has developed the world's first fully automated 12-inch (300 millimeters) wafer bonding machine, dubbed the "Bond Meister MWB-12-ST," capable of producing 3-dimensionally integrated LSI ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Fitness products galore at gadget show

If your New Year's resolution was to get more exercise and you're slipping already how about a digital personal trainer?

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Demonstration of ultra-high speed piezoelectric thin film with nanodomain structure

The Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology, the National Institute for Materials Science, and Kyoto University confirmed for the first time in the world that it is possible to achieve ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers measure nanometer scale temperature

Illinois researchers have developed a new kind of electro-thermal nanoprobe that can independently control voltage and temperature at a nanometer-scale point contact. It can also measure the temperature-dependent ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Giant 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 laboratories ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The Delta robot: Swiss-made and fastest in the world

It’s the story of a long dynasty of industrial robots. Delta’s three arms began by packaging chocolates, before being used in watchmaking, tele-surgery and the processing of materials....

Electronics / Robotics

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Zinc oxide microwires improve the performance of light-emitting diodes

Researchers have used zinc oxide microwires to significantly improve the efficiency at which gallium nitride light-emitting diodes (LED) convert electricity to ultraviolet light. The devices are believed to ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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