News tagged with mems devices

New 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.

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Knowing when to fold: Engineers use 'nano-origami' to build tiny electronic devices (Video)

(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 hair ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 0

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

Micromachined 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 robustness. ...

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 1

Research focuses on implementing radio frequency MEMS resonators on a silicon chip

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 devices.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Microtechnology: 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 because they ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jan 21, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

World’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.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 24, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 4

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

HP 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 high-volume products currently ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Imec's SiGe MEMS technology platform improves performance of state-of-the-art MEMS

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 15µm ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jul 14, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0