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Knowing when to fold: Engineers use 'nano-origami' to build tiny electronic devices (Video)

Knowing when to fold: Engineers use 'nano-origami' to build tiny electronic devices (Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Folding paper into shapes such as a crane or a butterfly is challenging enough for most people. Now imagine trying to fold something that's about a hundred times thinner than a human hair ...


Tension in the nanoworld: Infrared light visualizes nanoscale strain fields

Tension in the nanoworld: Infrared light visualizes nanoscale strain fields

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain) and the Max Planck Institutes of Biochemistry and Plasma Physics (Munich, Germany) report the non-invasive and nanoscale ...


Tiny 'MEMS' devices to filter, amplify electronic signals

Tiny 'MEMS' devices to filter, amplify electronic signals

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are developing a new class of tiny mechanical devices containing vibrating, hair-thin structures that could be used to filter electronic signals in cell phones and for other more ...


HP Enables Better, Faster Decision Making with Breakthrough Sensing Technology

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

HP today announced new inertial sensing technology that enables the development of digital micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) accelerometers that are up to 1,000 times more sensitive than high-volume products currently ...


A new avenue for MEMS-based sensor design

A new avenue for MEMS-based sensor design

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Mr Pradyumna Thiruvenkatanathan, a second year doctoral student in Engineering, is the recipient of the best student paper award in the sensors and transducers sub-field at the IEEE Frequency Control conference. ...