Latest Microelectromechanical systems Stories
NEWPORT BEACH, California, December 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry leader today announced its congratulations to its customer, SiTime Corporation, an analog semiconductor company that is revolutionizing the timing market, for being named the fastest growing semiconductor company in North America, based on Deloitte's 2012 Technology Fast 500. This ranking includes the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and...
Nanyang Technological University NTU scientists have invented a ‘sense-ational’ device, similar to a string of ‘feelers’ found on the bodies of the Blind Cave Fish, which enables the fish to sense their surrounding and so navigate easily. Using a combination of water pressure and computer vision technology, the sensory device is able to give users a 3-D image of nearby objects and map its surroundings. The possible applications of this fish-inspired sensor are enormous. The...
TAMPERE, Finland, Dec. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Primoceler Inc. (http://www.primoceler.com), a microfabrication company specializing in glass welding and laser scribing, has announced its development of a new laser-based welding machine for microelectromechanical systems. Primoceler's new machine produces an extremely small heat-affected zone during the hermetic sealing of sensitive components, improving manufacturing processes and expanding the potential for packaging sensitive...
MILPITAS, Calif., Dec. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- KLA-Tencor Corporation (NASDAQ: KLAC) today announced its next-generation light-emitting diode (LED) patterned wafer inspection tool, the ICOS WI-2280. Designed specifically for defect inspection and 2D metrology for LED applications, the ICOS WI-2280 also provides enhanced inspection capabilities and increased flexibility for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and semiconductor wafers spanning two inches to eight inches in size....
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 4 , 2012 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced the expansion of its display technology agreement between its subsidiary Pixtronix, Inc. and Sharp Corporation to develop and commercialize high-quality color, low-power MEMS displays incorporating IGZO (Indium Gallium Zinc Oxide) technology and built utilizing existing LCD manufacturing infrastructure, and Qualcomm's equity investment in Sharp Corporation. As a result of the...
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ICAP Patent Brokerage announces for auction optical switching technology portfolios from Comptic, Inc., comprising high-speed optical switching innovations for the fiber-optic communications industry. The patent portfolios will be included as two lots in the 17(th) ICAP Ocean Tomo IP Auction on November 29, 2012, at The Ritz Carlton in San Francisco, California. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100614/CG20517LOGO) "We are...
ST. FLORIAN, Austria and SAN MARCOS, Texas, Nov. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, today announced it has installed an EVG501 wafer bonding system at Texas State University. The highly flexible R&D system, which is configurable for a variety of wafer bonding processes, has been installed in the university's cleanroom facilities to support advanced...
In the news release, MIPI® Alliance Sensor "Birds of a Feather" Group Investigates Sensor Integration in Mobile Systems, issued 08-Nov-2012 by MIPI Alliance over PR Newswire, we are advised by the organization that the correct URL for the "Birds of a Feather" group should be http://mipi.org/working-groups/sensor-birds-feather-group rather than http://mipi.org/working-groups/sensor-birds-feather as originally issued inadvertently. The complete, corrected release follows: MIPI® Alliance...
PISCATAWAY, N.J., Nov. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- MIPI Alliance today announced the formation of an open "Birds of a Feather" (BoF) group that will investigate the requirements related to integrating sensors into mobile systems. The group will address current challenges facing the sensor and wireless markets including a fragmented digital interface landscape, rapidly expanding sensors per device, varied signals per device and non-scalable architectures. The Sensor BoF is open to non-MIPI...
JARFALLA, Sweden and BURLINGAME, Calif., Nov. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Silex Microsystems, the world's largest pure-play MEMS foundry, announced today that A.M. Fitzgerald & Associates ("AMFitzgerald"), a MEMS product development firm, has selected Silex's SmartBlocks(TM) technology for its RocketMEMS(TM) program, a new model for designer-foundry collaboration that enables rapid and cost-effective development of MEMS sensors. Initially targeted for the pressure sensor market,...
