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Electronics & Semiconductors Jun 21, 2007

IMEC reports 40 microwatt from micromachined piezoelectric energy harvester

IMEC has fabricated an energy harvester to generate energy from mechanical vibrations by using micromachining technology. The harvester comes together with a model which can be used to optimize the device during design. Output ...

General Physics Jun 18, 2007

Physicist demonstrates how light can be used to remotely operate micromachines

A research team led by Umar Mohideen, a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, has demonstrated in the laboratory that the Casimir force – the small attractive force that acts between two close parallel uncharged ...

General Physics Jun 4, 2007

A sound way to turn heat into electricity

University of Utah physicists developed small devices that turn heat into sound and then into electricity. The technology holds promise for changing waste heat into electricity, harnessing solar energy and cooling computers ...

Nanophysics May 31, 2007

Physicist demonstrates how light can be used to remotely operate micromachines

A research team led by Umar Mohideen, a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, has demonstrated in the laboratory that the Casimir force – the small attractive force that acts between two close parallel uncharged ...

General Physics May 11, 2007

Tiny spectrometer offers precision laser calibration

A tiny device for calibrating or stabilizing precision lasers has been designed and demonstrated at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The prototype device could replace table-top-sized instruments used for ...

May 10, 2007

Wild wheat shows its muscles

A grain of wild wheat has everything required for plant propagation - even tools for drilling into the soil. It uses its two awns for this: in the dry daytime air, these bristles bend outwards. At night, dampened by the dew, ...

Hardware Mar 27, 2007

Memjet Customers, Roadmap Start Taking Shape

PC OEMs and camera makers could be among the customers for Memjet's revolutionary inkjet printers that were first disclosed last week. Meanwhile, the company has already started talking about taking the Silverbrook technology ...

Engineering Feb 23, 2007

Chain Mail Fabric a Perfect Fit

Contemporaries of the ancient Greeks might find something familiar within the walls of the Micro and Nanotechnology Lab at the University of Illinois. In constructing a new type of smart fabric, researchers Jonathan Engel ...

General Physics Dec 14, 2006

Plucking comet dust from Stardust collectors

Ever since NASA's Stardust spacecraft delivered a payload of comet dust to Earth on Jan. 15, 2006, scientists by the hundreds have been clamoring for samples.

Oct 12, 2006

New motor first to be powered by living bacteria

A new motor designed by scientists from Japan offers the best of both worlds: the living and the non-living. The group built a hybrid micromachine that is powered by gliding bacteria which travels on an inorganic silicon ...

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