Tag Archives: MEMS

Ultimate sensitivity: Nanosenors

News: Sensor Technology    March 23, 2010
Everything electronic gets smaller, including sensors. Sensors are the devices that gauge your car’s tire pressure. They feel your fingers pinching an iPhone screen. They’re everywhere in modern technology, and soon they will be ultrasensitive and all but invisible – as nanosensors. There are many companies and academic laboratories working on the incorporation of nanotechnology [...]
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A First: Microchips in living cells

News: Body Implants    March 18, 2010
Scientists at the Instituto de Microelectrónica de Barcelona (Spain) have demonstrated for the first time…in their own words: “Silicon microchips can be internalized into eukaryotic cells without interfering with cell viability. Engineered intracellular chips with different biomolecules attached to the surface can be used as intracellular sensors.” At one level this means the researchers were [...]
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Microsolar: Potentially a small revolution

News: Alternative Energy    January 5, 2010
Even for sober science, the word revolutionary gets thrown around far too much. Solar energy gets its share of hyperbole. So the notion that microphotovolatic cells – tiny solar cells about the size of decorative glitter – could revolutionize the solar energy industry might be yet another hyperstretch. Then again, the option to use micro-cells [...]
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