Search results for microsystem:
Three new standards for MEMS devices
Jul 16, 2004 |
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), along with their colleagues at several companies, are completing experiments that validate new standards aimed at improving emerging new microelectromechanical ...
Bringing lab-on-a-chip to a surgery near you
Dec 02, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If doctors were able to conduct efficient genetic analysis at the point of care, using inexpensive, portable equipment, it would revolutionise disease detection and treatment. European researchers ...
Electricity from a thin film
Feb 01, 2008 |
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Teams of researchers all over the world are working on the development of organic solar cells. The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg is presenting avenues towards industrial mass ...
Thumb-size microsystem enables cell culture and incubation
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Oct 02, 2007 |
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Integrating silicon microchip technology with a network of tiny fluid channels, some thinner than a human hair, researchers at The Johns Hopkins University have developed a thumb-size micro-incubator to culture ...
Heart's surplus energy may help power pacemakers, defibrillators
Nov 10, 2008 |
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Surplus energy generated by the heart may one day help power pacemakers and defibrillators implanted in cardiac patients, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2008.
Strength through diversity
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny light-emitting diodes with optical microsystems that can produce all the colors of the rainbow, a new method for producing printed circuit boards - Fraunhofer researchers are showing ...
Researchers directly deposit gold nanoparticles in suspension
Aug 09, 2007 |
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The delivery, manipulation and assembly of functional materials such as metal nanoparticles into predefined architectures and patterns is of great interest in nanotechnology. Nanoscale patterns of nanoparticles have the potential ...
Antibiotics take toll on beneficial microbes in gut
Jun 19, 2009 |
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It's common knowledge that a protective navy of bacteria normally floats in our intestinal tracts. Antibiotics at least temporarily disturb the normal balance. But it's unclear which antibiotics are the most ...
Automated microfluidic device reduces time to screen small organisms for genetic studies
Jun 23, 2008 |
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Genetic studies on small organisms such as worms and flies can now be done more quickly using a new microfluidic device developed by engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
DARPA Selects Lucent Technologies to Provide Nanotechnology For Advanced Military Systems
Sep 09, 2004 |
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Lucent to provide Ultra Dense Large Micro Electro Mechanical Systems Spatial Light Modulators for Maskless Lithography to DARPA Lucent Technologies has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARP ...
Undercover Tactics
May 10, 2005 |
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Soft shell, hard core: nanotubes made of cyclic peptides with a synthetic polymer coating Ever since the discovery of carbon nanotubes in the early 1990s, scientists and engineers have been fascinated by the possibilities ...
Not Just for Eatin': Blue Crab Nano-Sensor Detects Dangers
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 26, 2006 |
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A substance found in crab shells is the key component in a nanoscale sensor system developed by researchers at the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering. The sensor can detect minute ...
Nanotech memory company poised to profit in billion dollar markets
Jun 21, 2005 |
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"Nanomech is a new non-volatile memory technology which is completely different to the existing one," explains Dr Mike Beunder, CEO of Cavendish Kinetics. "The existing technology involves storing charge whereas ours operates ...
Nanotechnology simulations show what experiments miss
Jun 13, 2006 |
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Taking issue with the perception that computer models lack realism, a Sandia National Laboratories researcher told his audience that simulations of the nanoscale provide researchers more detailed results — ...
Spring Is In the Air
Apr 10, 2007 |
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Spring is in the air … and up for grabs? Well, uh, no, apparently not.
