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Weighing a Bacterium - Scientists are using tiny, nanoscale cantilevers 4 micrometers long and...
Weighing a Bacterium - Scientists are using tiny, nanoscale cantilevers 4 micrometers long and 500 nanometers wide-essentially miniature diving boards-as a sensitive way to measure mass.study.com: 2019-04-27
[url: https://study.com/academy/answer/weighing-a-bacterium-scientists-are-using-tiny-nanoscale-cantilevers-4-micrometers-long-and-500-nanometers-wide-essentially-miniature-diving-boards-as-a-sensitive-way-to-measure-mass-the-cantileve.html]
An Introduction to Mechanical Testers for the Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)
Today, the microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) industry requires mechanical testers that are capable of applying controlled high-resolution forces. Moreover, these mechanical testers need to have a wide range of travel in the case of flexible devices ...AZoNano: 2019-04-30
[url: https://www.azonano.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=5187]
Bioprinting 101 – Part 16 Microfluidics
We have previously mentioned the topic of microfluidics within this series of articles. Microfluidics deals with the behavior, precise control, and manipulation of fluids that are geometrically ...3dprint: 2019-04-25
[url: https://3dprint.com/242230/bioprinting-101-part-16-microfluidics/]
Mixing liquids for microfluidics
Microfluidics takes a new step – an infinitely reconfigurable, 3D-printed, all-liquid lab on a chip. A team of researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (CA, USA) has produced an all-liquid 3D-printed “lab on a chip”. They report ...BioTechniques: 2019-05-02
[url: https://www.biotechniques.com/bioengineering-biophysics/mixing-liquids-for-microfluidics/]
DARPA: This Smart Contact Lens Could Give Soldiers Superpowers
French engineering school IMT Atlantique revealed what it calls “the first stand-alone contact lens with a flexible micro battery” earlier this month. The biggest challenge that IMT Atlantique ...Futurism: 2019-04-29
[url: https://futurism.com/darpa-augmented-reality-contact-lens]
MEMS business
STMicroelectronics Annouces Tiny, Low-Power MEMS 3-axis Accelerometer and Thermometer on a Single IC
STMicro claims their new MEMS device is the first to measure acceleration and temperature in one IC package. According to a blog post by STMicroelectronics, "The LIS2DTW12 is the first Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) in the industry to embark both ...All About Circuits: 2019-04-25
[url: https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/stmicroelectronics-tiny-low-power-mems-3-axis-accelerometer-thermometer-IC/]
Nanotechnology
New Nanotechnology Imaging Technique Sheds Light on DNA Structure
For biologists everywhere, April 25 is auspicious. It is DNA Day and commemorates the date in 1953 when scientists Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin, James Watson and Maurice Wilkins published seminal scientific papers describing the helical structure of ...Smithsonian Magazine: 2019-04-26
[url: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/new-nanotechnology-imaging-technique-sheds-light-dna-structure-180972049/]
Is Silicon Still Efficient on the Nanoscale When Being Used as a Semiconductor?
The use of silicon to make semiconductors for electronics calls for an ultrapure single crystal form. In this form, silicon atoms are regularly arranged into a crystal lattice with no undefined impurities present. In addition to the single crystal form of ...AZoNano: 2019-04-29
[url: https://www.azonano.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=5198]
New nanomaterial to replace mercury
The nano research team led by professors Helge Weman and Bjørn-Ove Fimland at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology's (NTNU) Department of Electronic Systems has succeeded in ...Phys.org: 2019-04-25
[url: https://phys.org/news/2019-04-nanomaterial-mercury.html]
Diamond quantum microscope images nanoscale features in 2D magnets
Diamond tool. NV single spin magnetometry provides direct quantitative nanoscale measurements of 2D crystal magnetism. Credit: Quantum Sensing Group, University of Basel. Key to the interest in 2D materials, as Maletinsky explains, is the ability to ...Physics World: 2019-04-26
[url: https://physicsworld.com/a/diamond-quantum-microscope-images-nanoscale-features-in-2d-magnets/]
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2019-06-25 - 2019-06-27
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2019-07-09 - 2019-07-11
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The 33rd International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems
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<dt style="font-weight:bold; margin-top: 0.5ex"><a href="https://study.com/academy/answer/weighing-a-bacterium-scientists-are-using-tiny-nanoscale-cantilevers-4-micrometers-long-and-500-nanometers-wide-essentially-miniature-diving-boards-as-a-sensitive-way-to-measure-mass-the-cantileve.html" target="_new" title="https://study.com/academy/answer/weighing-a-bacterium-scientists-are-using-tiny-nanoscale-cantilevers-4-micrometers-long-and-500-nanometers-wide-essentially-miniature-diving-boards-as-a-sensitive-way-to-measure-mass-the-cantileve.html">Weighing a Bacterium - Scientists are using tiny, nanoscale cantilevers 4 micrometers long and...</a>
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<dd style="margin-bottom:0.5ex">Weighing a Bacterium - Scientists are using tiny, nanoscale cantilevers 4 micrometers long and 500 nanometers wide-essentially miniature diving boards-as a sensitive way to measure mass.<br /><div style="font-style:italic; font-size:smaller">study.com: 2019-04-27 - MEMS technology</div>
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<dt style="font-weight:bold; margin-top: 0.5ex"><span style="margin:1px; float:right"><a href="https://www.azonano.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=5187" target="_new"><img src="https://www.bing.com/th?id=ON.EF38D51BA7A1F0A9D6CC0D30E9B10554&pid=News" style="border:none" alt="thumbnail"/></a></span><a href="https://www.azonano.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=5187" target="_new" title="https://www.azonano.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=5187">An Introduction to Mechanical Testers for the Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)</a>
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<dd style="margin-bottom:0.5ex">Today, the microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) industry requires mechanical testers that are capable of applying controlled high-resolution forces. Moreover, these mechanical testers need to have a wide range of travel in the case of flexible devices ...<br /><div style="font-style:italic; font-size:smaller">AZoNano: 2019-04-30 - MEMS technology</div>
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<dt style="font-weight:bold; margin-top: 0.5ex"><span style="margin:1px; float:right"><a href="https://3dprint.com/242230/bioprinting-101-part-16-microfluidics/" target="_new"><img src="https://www.bing.com/th?id=ON.44352CC915AA230907CADB0E4E24E046&pid=News" style="border:none" alt="thumbnail"/></a></span><a href="https://3dprint.com/242230/bioprinting-101-part-16-microfluidics/" target="_new" title="https://3dprint.com/242230/bioprinting-101-part-16-microfluidics/">Bioprinting 101 – Part 16 Microfluidics</a>
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<dd style="margin-bottom:0.5ex">We have previously mentioned the topic of microfluidics within this series of articles. Microfluidics deals with the behavior, precise control, and manipulation of fluids that are geometrically ...<br /><div style="font-style:italic; font-size:smaller">3dprint: 2019-04-25 - MEMS technology</div>
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<dt style="font-weight:bold; margin-top: 0.5ex"><span style="margin:1px; float:right"><a href="https://www.biotechniques.com/bioengineering-biophysics/mixing-liquids-for-microfluidics/" target="_new"><img src="https://www.bing.com/th?id=ON.665534CF2A0F350781CCD1439514323E&pid=News" style="border:none" alt="thumbnail"/></a></span><a href="https://www.biotechniques.com/bioengineering-biophysics/mixing-liquids-for-microfluidics/" target="_new" title="https://www.biotechniques.com/bioengineering-biophysics/mixing-liquids-for-microfluidics/">Mixing liquids for microfluidics</a>
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<dd style="margin-bottom:0.5ex">Microfluidics takes a new step – an infinitely reconfigurable, 3D-printed, all-liquid lab on a chip. A team of researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (CA, USA) has produced an all-liquid 3D-printed “lab on a chip”. They report ...<br /><div style="font-style:italic; font-size:smaller">BioTechniques: 2019-05-02 - MEMS technology</div>
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<dt style="font-weight:bold; margin-top: 0.5ex"><span style="margin:1px; float:right"><a href="https://futurism.com/darpa-augmented-reality-contact-lens" target="_new"><img src="https://www.bing.com/th?id=ON.321813C1C488BEC81B18D0CACA0F792C&pid=News" style="border:none" alt="thumbnail"/></a></span><a href="https://futurism.com/darpa-augmented-reality-contact-lens" target="_new" title="https://futurism.com/darpa-augmented-reality-contact-lens">DARPA: This Smart Contact Lens Could Give Soldiers Superpowers</a>
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<dd style="margin-bottom:0.5ex">French engineering school IMT Atlantique revealed what it calls “the first stand-alone contact lens with a flexible micro battery” earlier this month. The biggest challenge that IMT Atlantique ...<br /><div style="font-style:italic; font-size:smaller">Futurism: 2019-04-29 - MEMS technology</div>
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<h1 style="font-size:20px; font-weight:normal; color:#003366; width:590px; display:block; background-color:#C4CBDA; padding:5px">MEMS business</h1>
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<dt style="font-weight:bold; margin-top: 0.5ex"><span style="margin:1px; float:right"><a href="https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/stmicroelectronics-tiny-low-power-mems-3-axis-accelerometer-thermometer-IC/" target="_new"><img src="https://www.bing.com/th?id=ON.0AEECC7AC6FEDA5578FC665C5080FB69&pid=News" style="border:none" alt="thumbnail"/></a></span><a href="https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/stmicroelectronics-tiny-low-power-mems-3-axis-accelerometer-thermometer-IC/" target="_new" title="https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/stmicroelectronics-tiny-low-power-mems-3-axis-accelerometer-thermometer-IC/">STMicroelectronics Annouces Tiny, Low-Power MEMS 3-axis Accelerometer and Thermometer on a Single IC</a>
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<dd style="margin-bottom:0.5ex">STMicro claims their new MEMS device is the first to measure acceleration and temperature in one IC package. According to a blog post by STMicroelectronics, "The LIS2DTW12 is the first Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) in the industry to embark both ...<br /><div style="font-style:italic; font-size:smaller">All About Circuits: 2019-04-25 - MEMS business</div>
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<dt style="font-weight:bold; margin-top: 0.5ex"><span style="margin:1px; float:right"><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/new-nanotechnology-imaging-technique-sheds-light-dna-structure-180972049/" target="_new"><img src="https://www.bing.com/th?id=ON.81E316710317C268E60D8C03BE40C27C&pid=News" style="border:none" alt="thumbnail"/></a></span><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/new-nanotechnology-imaging-technique-sheds-light-dna-structure-180972049/" target="_new" title="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/new-nanotechnology-imaging-technique-sheds-light-dna-structure-180972049/">New Nanotechnology Imaging Technique Sheds Light on DNA Structure</a>
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<dd style="margin-bottom:0.5ex">For biologists everywhere, April 25 is auspicious. It is DNA Day and commemorates the date in 1953 when scientists Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin, James Watson and Maurice Wilkins published seminal scientific papers describing the helical structure of ...<br /><div style="font-style:italic; font-size:smaller">Smithsonian Magazine: 2019-04-26 - Nanotechnology</div>
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<dt style="font-weight:bold; margin-top: 0.5ex"><a href="https://www.azonano.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=5198" target="_new" title="https://www.azonano.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=5198">Is Silicon Still Efficient on the Nanoscale When Being Used as a Semiconductor?</a>
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<dd style="margin-bottom:0.5ex">The use of silicon to make semiconductors for electronics calls for an ultrapure single crystal form. In this form, silicon atoms are regularly arranged into a crystal lattice with no undefined impurities present. In addition to the single crystal form of ...<br /><div style="font-style:italic; font-size:smaller">AZoNano: 2019-04-29 - Nanotechnology</div>
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<dt style="font-weight:bold; margin-top: 0.5ex"><span style="margin:1px; float:right"><a href="https://phys.org/news/2019-04-nanomaterial-mercury.html" target="_new"><img src="https://www.bing.com/th?id=ON.9A97DC091CDCB2D9783A60998892713F&pid=News" style="border:none" alt="thumbnail"/></a></span><a href="https://phys.org/news/2019-04-nanomaterial-mercury.html" target="_new" title="https://phys.org/news/2019-04-nanomaterial-mercury.html">New nanomaterial to replace mercury</a>
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<dd style="margin-bottom:0.5ex">The nano research team led by professors Helge Weman and Bjørn-Ove Fimland at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology's (NTNU) Department of Electronic Systems has succeeded in ...<br /><div style="font-style:italic; font-size:smaller">Phys.org: 2019-04-25 - Nanotechnology</div>
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<dt style="font-weight:bold; margin-top: 0.5ex"><a href="https://physicsworld.com/a/diamond-quantum-microscope-images-nanoscale-features-in-2d-magnets/" target="_new" title="https://physicsworld.com/a/diamond-quantum-microscope-images-nanoscale-features-in-2d-magnets/">Diamond quantum microscope images nanoscale features in 2D magnets</a>
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<dd style="margin-bottom:0.5ex">Diamond tool. NV single spin magnetometry provides direct quantitative nanoscale measurements of 2D crystal magnetism. Credit: Quantum Sensing Group, University of Basel. Key to the interest in 2D materials, as Maletinsky explains, is the ability to ...<br /><div style="font-style:italic; font-size:smaller">Physics World: 2019-04-26 - Nanotechnology</div>
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