POSTS TAGGED AS MEMS

MEMS Switch for Ingestible Devices

Coto Technology RedRock MEMS Reed Switch
Reed switches are small electrical devices made of two metallic prongs inside a sealed glass [MORE]

Novel Microparticles with Segmented Surfaces for Different Applications

Complex Particles with Chemically Different Segments
A more effective anticancer chemotherapy would, at once, specifically target a cancer cell, penetrate its [MORE]

New Device for Detecting Eye Diseases

Optical Coherence Tomography
Optical coherence tomography is a technology that bends infrared light in examining eyes for such things as [MORE]

Micro Vacuum Pumps

Microscale Vacuum Pump
DARPA let challenge grants for micro-scale vacuum pumps which could be used in micro-fluidics devices (among [MORE]

Low Voltage Electroporation

Gene therapy mainly relies on viral vectors to introduce DNR or RNA into target cells.  Viruses have the advantage [MORE]

Pacemaker Signal Artifacts

Detecting and Distinguishing Cardiac Pacing Artifacts
With an aging population, the 400,000 annual pacemaker implantations are likely to rise, but [MORE]

MEMS Pressure Sensors

A key problem that has to be overcome in designing tiny pressure sensors (as those used in surgical robots) [MORE]

Biological Robots

Biobots
Once again, fact is stranger than fiction.  Engineers at the University of Illinois’ Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory have used [MORE]

Designing Devices

Sensimed Triggerfish Contact Lens
Tagline has included earlier reports of electronic contact lenses, but this piece, about Sensimed AG’s (Lausanne, [MORE]

Novel Technique for Distinguishing Normal and Diseased Tissue

Using a resonance tunnel diode, MEMS engineers at the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany have created a micro-transmitter, [MORE]

“Photoelectricwetting” Activates MEMS Devices

Light-Actuated Cantilever
First, imagine a drop of water on a waxed car hood: the drop beads up.  Then, on an [MORE]

Perspective on Nanomedicine

You’ll have to go to the journal Molecular Pharmaceuticals to get the full text of this nanomedicine review, but [MORE]

Quality-of-Life Technologies

“Quality of life technologies (QoLTs) are intelligent systems that take into account the abilities, needs, and intentions of the [MORE]

Printing Electrodes on Devices

The roots of 3D printing go back to sintering tungsten filaments for the early incandescent lamps, but today 3D [MORE]