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Reducing Friction and Stiction in Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems

Micro-electro-mechanical systems, popularly referred to as MEMS, in small electronic devices often fail because of adhesion and stiction – the attractive force between the surfaces of interacting parts. University ...

19 Mar 2007

Breakthrough in Nano Spray Technology

EV Group (EVG) has announced a breakthrough achievement in new photoresist coating technology. With its new Nano Spray technology EVG has been able to demonstrate, for the first time, conformal coatings of vertical via w...

14 Mar 2007

Johns Hopkins Researchers Create Tiny Analyzer to Study Depletions of Plasma in the Ionosphere

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), in Laurel, Md., in conjunction with scientists from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the U.S. Air Force Academy, have developed a tiny a...

14 Mar 2007

Boston Micromachines to Build Largest Ever MEMS Deformable Mirror

Boston Micromachines Corporation has announced that it has been awarded a contract by the UCO/Lick Observatory, headquartered at the University of California Santa Cruz campus, to develop the largest MEMS deformable mirr...

14 Mar 2007

TeraVicta Technologies Announces MEMS Product Roadmap

TeraVicta Technologies has announced a product roadmap which extends the reach of this exciting new technology. Leveraging its proven switch technology, TeraVicta is introducing three new product lines: the first brings ...

6 Mar 2007

New Computer Modeling Could Aid Design of Nanomaterials

Researchers from MIT, Georgia Institute of Technology and Ohio State University have developed a new computer modeling approach to study how materials behave under stress at the atomic level, offering insights that could...

6 Mar 2007

A Uniaxial BioMEMS Device for Quantitative Force-Displacement Measurements

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) cell-stretcher that can measure the mechanical properties of a living cell, such as its abili...

6 Mar 2007

Nanometrics Introduces New System for Critical Dimension, Overlay Metrology

Nanometrics Incorporated has introduced the IVS 185 system, capable of making critical dimension (CD) and overlay measurements using the same metrology recipe while achieving higher productivity. The ultra-low footprint ...

27 Feb 2007

STMicroelectronics Announces New Accelerometer

STMicroelectronics has announced a new power- and cost-optimized solution extending its family of ultra-compact ‘low-g’ linear accelerometers. The tiny, low-power MEMS device provides precise acceleration val...

From STMicroelectronics 22 Feb 2007

New Cryogenic Refrigerator

A new cryogenic refrigerator has been demonstrated at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) that operates at twice the usual frequency, achieving a long-sought combination of small size, rapid cooling...

19 Feb 2007