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Magnificent MEMS and the micro-machines
News In the early '90s, futurists predicted a booming market for MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) similar to the devices described above. Several challenges need to be overcome, but the progress with nanotechnology makes MEMS more promising.
[February 25, 2003, 10:58]
The problems of processor manufacture
News How far are MEMS [Micro Electro Mechanical Systems] away from production? MEMS are very interesting, making things like sensors that we couldn't have made in the past. Paulo Gargini is the director of technology strategy at Intel.
[March 10, 2006, 17:05]
HP 'sensing technology' to connect objects, people
News HP announced on Thursday a new inertial-sensing technology that enables the development of digital micro-electro-mechanical systems, or Mems, accelerometers that are up to 1,000 times more sensitive than those in high-volume products currently...
[November 6, 2009, 8:16]
ST builds chips for gene detection
News The chip, technically called a MEMS (microelectromechanical system), essentially performs several of the tasks involved in scanning DNA for genes, a process that normally requires a battery of laboratory equipment, according to Barbara Grieco...
[November 6, 2002, 8:23]
Intel micromachines get legs
News At the same time Intel Capital, the company's venture funding arm, is making seed investments in MEMS companies such as North Carolina-based Cronos Integrated Microsystems. The chipmaker is putting venture capital money and research and development...
[April 26, 2001, 8:27]
Video projector on a chip focuses on eyeballs
News The device works by having three light-emitting diodes shining red, green and blue onto a micro-electrical-mechanical-systems (MEMS) chip with a vibrating mirror. The MEMS chip is being developed in conjunction with Taipei company Walsin Lihwa, and...
[February 12, 2002, 15:40]
Intel dives into pervasive computing
News In the future, however, MEMS will be attached to people to monitor skin lesions or inserted in clothing to track people in case they get lost. The driving force behind MEMS lies in information overload, said Tennenhouse.
[August 28, 2001, 9:19]
Microscopic motion sensor developed
News The device, which is made out of silicon, is a micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS). Large companies and researchers for years have tried to popularise the concept of MEMS, tiny machines crafted out of silicon wafers that can perform like pumps...
[October 4, 2004, 14:20]
Chip slaps cuffs on pox bug
News The microelectromechanical system (MEMS) silicon device reacted to a single particle of vaccina virus and the researchers say this could lead to chips capable of identifying many thousands of different kinds of viruses, toxins and bioagents.
[February 16, 2004, 15:40]
Information Processing and Data Management in Wireless Sensor Networks
White Papers The rapid progress of wireless communication and embedded micro-sensing MEMS technologies has made wireless sensor networks possible. A wireless sensor network normally comes a large area with many inexpensive, tiny sensor nodes, each capable of...
[April 23, 2009, 1:24]
Fujitsu Siemens lays out nanotech roadmap
Talkback Watch out for those static charge and heat problems that prevail through out mems/nems kingdom !
[March 10, 2005, 20:14]
LayoutEditor
Downloads The LayoutEditor is a program to design and edit layouts for MEMS/IC fabrication. As well as it is suitably for Multi-Chip-Modules (MCM), Chip-on-Board (COB), Low temperature co-fired ceramics (LTCC), Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMIC...
[October 14, 2009, 15:36]
World's smallest combination lock gears up - for IT security
News Using microelectromechanical system (MEMS) design, the Recodable Locking Device has six notched gear wheels each the size of a full stop to replicate a traditional locking mechanism on a silicon chip.
[March 5, 2003, 15:48]
Xerox chip makes fibre cheaper
News According to Xerox, the development is a breakthrough because it successfully combines optical MEMS and planar light circuits on a single chip. The chip, technically a micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) contains an array of tiny fibres.
[March 27, 2003, 15:09]
'Flying' micro-robot developed by researchers
News A research team lead by professor Mir Behrad Khamesee manipulated magnetic fields to levitate and move a robot weighing less than one gramme around three axes, according to a paper seen by ZDNet UK: MechMN: Design and Implementation of a...
[April 9, 2009, 18:29]
Visions of China
Blog It's also way past time it said something about MEMS, but I think that's probaby because it hasn't got anything to say about MEMS.That's OK, neither has anyone else. IDF Beijing: what silicon prawns are going to be sizzling on the platter of...
[April 12, 2007, 18:31]
Micro generators pick up power
News This is an important step in the development of MEMS-based micro-power systems," said Professor Mark Allen, also involved in the project. A tiny generator a centimetre across and three millimetres high has produced more than a watt of electricity...
[November 25, 2004, 14:55]
The Week in Review: Getting unwired
News Magnificent MEMS and the micro-machines Marriott, for example, said it would team up with Intel to offer high-speed wireless Internet access in more than 400 of its hotels by spring. It wouldn't have anything to do with Intel's Centrino launch...
[February 28, 2003, 16:35]
Tiny chip as hot as Venus
News The hot plates are an example of a microelectromechanical system, or MEMS, or chips that function in the same way as machines. Boston MicroSystems has developed a chip that is thinner than a human hair but can quickly go from zero to 1,100 degrees...
[July 5, 2004, 14:35]
Nanotech start-ups suffer from telecoms surplus
News The devices, which use MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) technology, have a unique kind of receiver, which Nguyen refers to as a vibrating mechanical resonator. In the heyday of the telecom explosion, Weinbaum and other executives at equipment...
[May 27, 2002, 12:33]
