MEMS

Other materials stories that may be of interest

By / October 16, 2012

Check ’em out: Kyocera’s new M-Six Shell Mill double-sided CNC cutting tool. Kyocera introduces new milling cutters for CNC machining featuring inserts with proprietary Megacoat Nano technology Kyocera Industrial Ceramics…

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Other materials science stories that may be of interest

By / August 14, 2012

Lots of interesting work happening out there: Making “renewable” viable: Drexel engineers develop new technology for grid-level electrical energy storage A team of researchers from Drexel University’s College of Engineering…

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Previews of the latest articles in the Journal of the American Ceramic Society—special topical issue on sintering

By Eileen De Guire / June 11, 2012

— Image of PiezoMEMS actuated wing design, illustrating PZT stroke and pitch actuators and thin film wing structure (left). Image of suspended platform with individually controllable wings next to a…

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Ceramic and glass business news from this week

By / March 19, 2011

Here’s what we are hearing: Trek introduces new high-frequency amplifier for MEMS Trek Inc., will introduce its new high-frequency amplifier, Model 2100HF, at the American Physical Society meeting being held…

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Group shows hysteretic behavior of ferroelectric materials changes at nanoscale

By / May 20, 2010

A collaborative group of researchers from Oak Ridge National Lab, Penn State, the Univ. of Sheffield (U.K.) and EPFL (Switzerland) have made a discovery that overturns some 100-year-old assumptions about…

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Microphotovoltaics produce competitive results

By / December 23, 2009

Via press release, Sandia National Lab announced that scientists have developed microphotovoltaic cells that could revolutionize the way solar energy is collected and used. The cells are fabricated using microelectronic…

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Sporian snags AF contract for high-temp sensor

By / May 1, 2009

The Air Force has awarded MEMS sensor maker Sporian Microsystems a contract to conduct research using the firm’s “polymer derived ceramic as a non-planar, conformal, thin film, high temperature sensor.”…

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Ceramics (MEMS) gets fingered

By / March 26, 2009

Apparently ceramics innovations can keep you on your toes – and keep track of your fingers. Florida-based Sonavation Inc. recently announced what they claim to be “the biometrics industry’s thinnest,…

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