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• IBM, Bulgaria partner for nanoscience center
  
  Author: By Suzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, News | Date: May 26, 2009
  ...together in the field of nanoscience. The government’s three-year program is aimed at creating different nanoproducts, micromachines, and microsystems. According to a separate commercial agreement also signed Friday, IBM technology and business consultants...
• MEMS-based inertial sensor is not your grandfather's gyroscope
  
  Author: By Randy Torrance, Chipworks | Date: Dec 1, 2008
  ...integrated two of these MEMS structures orthogonally on the die to allow for two-axis detection. The design uses a bulk micromachining process, vertically integrated electronics, and wafer-scale packaging. The gyro design includes an integrated dual-mass...
• Microsoft uses MEMS for displays
  
  Author: By Colleen Taylor | Date: Mar 8, 2007
  ...realm, Microsoft Research said its hardware devices group is currently building micro-devices using Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) in an effort to build cheaper flat-panel displays with high resolution. "We want displays...
• Smart optical microchips could advance telecom
  
  Author: By Fran Granville | Date: Dec 3, 2007
  ...Pressure on the cavity walls gets high enough to force the cavity to move. This movement forms a critical part of an optical micromachine, which adjusts its configuration to respond to light in a predesigned way. Using the concept, a “smart” resonator...
• NEC eDRAM to Play in Nintendo Wii
  
  Author: Staff Reporter | Date: Jun 19, 2006
  ...announced that STMicroelectronics and Analog Devices Inc. would also play in its Wii, both providing micro electro- mechanical systems (MEMS) technology to the system’s controllers. SKIP THIS AD >> ADVERTISEMENT You will...
• MEMS, sensors, and nanotechnology
  
  Author: By Pallab Chatterjee, Contributing Technical Editor | Date: Jan 7, 2010
  Several areas of creative design activity that are rapidly gaining in importance and diversity require a stronger interaction between design and processing technology.
• mPhase Spins Off Magnetometer Biz
  
  Author: Staff Reporter | Date: Aug 17, 2006
  ...development program underway with Lucent Technologies Bell Labs. As demonstrated by a jointly-developed Micro- Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) device, a prototype magnetometer has already been shown to detect the presence of a metal...
• Precision tilt/fall detector consumes less than 1.5 mW
  
  Author: Marián Stofka, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia; Edited by Martin Rowe and Fran Granville | Date: Dec 3, 2009
  When you need to detect angular position related to Earth’s gravity, you can use an Analog Devices three-axis MEMS (microelectromechanical-system) accelerometer. The ADXL335 has three analog outputs that correspond to the X, Y, and Z axes of an orthogonal coordinate system (Reference 1).
• Microsoft buys voice portal startup
  
  Author: By Colleen Taylor | Date: Mar 15, 2007
  ...software realm. Last week the Redmond, Wash.-based company's hardware devices group demonstrated the use of micro-devices using micro electro mechanical systems in an effort to build cheaper flat-panel displays with high resolution.
• Analog Devices, Infineon collaborate on air-bag systems
  
  Author: By Graham Prophet, Europe Editor | Date: Jun 25, 2009
  Analog Devices and Infineon Technologies have collaborated to produce next-generation automotive-air-bag systems. In the immediate future, the two companies will produce a hardware platform using parts from each company’s current offerings. Designers will be able to adopt this platform to begin
• Qualcomm Appoints Exec Team for MEMS Subsidiary
  
  Author: Online staff | Date: Mar 30, 2005
  ...acquisition of Iridigm Display Corp. Greg Heinzinger, senior VP and general manager, was appointed to lead the Micro- Electro- Mechanical- Systems (MEMS) business. During his 10-year tenure at Qualcomm, Heinzinger has served as COO for Wingcast, president...
• RF switching options: The right fit might come with a loss
  
  Author: By Rick Nelson, Editor-in-Chief | Date: Sep 17, 2009
  Manufacturers are offering SOI and MEMS alternatives to PIN-diode, GaAs, and electromechanical switches for a variety of RF applications, but you need to understand RF-switch specs before you commit to a new technology.
• Power play
  
  Author: Dean Takahashi, illustration images.com | Date: Nov 1, 2002
  ...power dissipation and consumption is a design priority. The company is even contemplating using MEMS ( micro- electro mechanical systems) to create cooling structures like heat sinks inside chips so they can cool the machine at the very...
• Tilt/fall detector has staggered thresholds
  
  Author: Marián Stofka, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia; Edited by Martin Rowe and Fran Granville | Date: Feb 18, 2010
  Comparators and a voltage-divider network let you set threshold levels.
• Optical Switch Pushes Fiber to the Door
  
  Author: Electronics News Australia | Date: Apr 22, 2003
  ...the not too distant future. Xerox breaks the current bandwidth barriers by integrating an optical micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS) photonic switch with planar light circuits on to a single silicon chip small enough to fit...
• FROM EDN EUROPE: MEMS microphone has digital output
  
  Author: By Graham Prophet, EDN Europe |
  Akustica's designers claim that the AKU2000 is the first CMOS MEMS direct-digital output, single-chip microphone. The company has licensed techology from Carnegie Mellon University—technology that it believes is comprehensively patent-protected—that allows it to build MEMS using the metallisation
• n&k Intros Metrology Tool for Ultra-Thick Photoresists
  
  Author: Staff | Date: Jul 15, 2002
  ...growth in several market sectors which utilize ultra-thick photoresists for electroplating, including micro- electro mechanical systems (MEMS) and advanced packaging," said Rahim Forouhi, president and CEO of n&k, in a statement...
• Tools accurately simulate noise in mixed-signal ASICs
  
  Author: By Thierry Masson, Laurent Monge, and A Glascott-Jones, e2v | Date: Feb 4, 2010
  In applications requiring high precision, getting noise estimates right means understanding both the application and the tools.
• DARPA Contracts Lucent for Maskless Litho
  
  Author: Online staff | Date: Sep 8, 2004
  ...Naval Warfare Systems Center San Diego, which calls for Lucent to design, develop and demonstrate micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS)-based Spatial Light Modulators (SLM) to enable maskless optical lithography. Companies...
• Glitter-sized solar photovoltaics claim big benefits in small cells
  
  Author: By Suzanne Deffree, Managing editor, news | Date: Dec 23, 2009
  Tiny glitter-sized PV (photovoltaic) cells from Sandia National Laboratories are fabricated of crystalline silicon using MEMS techniques and are expected to eventually be less expensive and have greater efficiencies than current photovoltaic collectors that are pieced together with 6-in-sq solar