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Apple Is No. 1 Consumer of MEMS Microphones

After conducting thorough research throughout 2011, IHS iSuppli learned that sales of the iPad tablet computer propelled Apple to the number one spot among MEMS microphone buyers. The Cupertino company reportedly increased its procurement of MEMS microphones by 173 percent in 2011 to reach 349 million units. In 2010...

19 January 2012
12:01 GMT

Advanced Microtweezers Developed for Small-Scale Construction

Microtweezers are devices that can be used to handle extremely small objects or structures. In a new development, experts create an advanced version of this instrument, one that can be used for a variety of applications, including manipulating live stem cells, creating advanced sensors and so on. But the most impor...

18 January 2012
05:20 GMT

Hitachi Previews MEMS Display Prototype

Though liquid crystal displays (LCDs) are one of, if not the most popular presence on the consumer display market right now, makers of all sorts of displays are already looking for alternatives, such as the promising MEMS technology, which Hitachi has just shown off at CEATEC.MEMS stands for microelectromechanical s...

8 October 2010
10:36 GMT

Self-Calibrating MEMS Created

Thanks to new advancements in science, producing micro electromechanical systems (MEMS) that have the ability to calibrate themselves is now possible. These nanoscale machines could in the future lead to the creation of extremely accurate sensors, to be used in a variety of applications.The innovative devices could b...

11 August 2010
06:32 GMT

MEMS Technology Allows for Tiny Gyroscopes

Gyroscopes are perhaps some of the most well-known toys in the world, as they were all the rage for children living in the 20th century. They were used for a variety of applications, ranging from replacing magnetic compasses to helping stabilize satellites in orbit, but now the main goal in the field is to reduce the...

28 December 2009
06:58 GMT

Autonomous Wireless Sensor Driven by Piezoelectrics

Researchers at the IMEC (Interuniversity Microelectronics Center), in Belgium, announce the development of a new class of ultrasmall, fully autonomous, wireless sensors, which are powered up via micromachined piezoelectric harvesters. The new achievement was reached by using the Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) ...

16 December 2009
16:01 GMT

Tiny Beam of Light Can Move Nanostructures

Scientists at the Cornell University, in the United States, have recently announced the development of a new optical technology, which allows them to use a tiny beam of light in order to move nanostructures. The beam employs as little as one milliwatt of power in order to do this, but it can move structures that are ...

18 November 2009
06:57 GMT

MEMS Devices to Amplify Electronic Signals

Microelectromechanical systems, or MEMS, are tiny devices able to perform highly-complex tasks. Experts at the Purdue University are now planning to use them to create filters for electronic signals, to be used most commonly in mobile phones, but also in other, more exotic applications. The new class of systems curre...

11 August 2009
11:01 GMT

TSMC on Track with MEMS Deployment

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is reported to enhance even more its development of micro-electro mechanical systems (MEMS) business, as it is installing new equipment, as planned before, reports Digitimes, citing sources at the equipment and material suppliers for the foundry.  The current glo...

1 December 2008
03:53 GMT

Quartz Oscillators to Be Replaced by MEMS

Microelectromechanical systems, or MEMS, seem to have found a new possible application lately as oscillators that produce frequencies in the radio wavelengths through vibrations taking place inside them, to replace or enhance the current quartz and other oscillators, thus integrating them economically onto silicon ch...

15 March 2008
07:35 GMT

Weird Quantum Force Finds Classical Equivalent

The Casimir effect, as it is known, represents the attraction force exerted between parallel conducting surfaces placed into vacuum. On macroscopic scale, it is virtually undetectable, but on distances as small as 10 nanometers, about 100 times the size of an average atom, the Casimir effect can produce forces as pow...

14 January 2008
05:31 GMT

Wireless Sensors to Monitor Jet Bearings

The research conducted at Purdue University has resulted in the creation of tiny wireless sensors which can detect critical bearings that are about to fail. The device which has to endure the harsh temperature conditions inside the jet engine, are the exemplary result of an emerging technology called "micro electrome...

15 November 2007
09:38 GMT

The Smallest MEMS Display on the Lubix UBHS-PH2 Headsets

These new headsets bring an innovatory feature which has never been seen until now in this type of products. Their technology is one of the most evolved and has high chances of receiving a great amount of appreciation coming from their users.The Korean company brings new Bluetooth headsets which will bring visual inf...

28 June 2007
04:10 GMT


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