Post by skytroll on Apr 27, 2008 1:36:48 GMT -5
Looks and sounds like Mems machines. IMPORTANT COMPANY
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Mems
Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) MOEMS Micro Optical Electronic Machines
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Picture an incredibly tiny machine so small that it is not visible to the human eye. Imagine machines no bigger than a grain of sand. Imagine hundreds of these machines aligned on a single silicon chip. . Imagine a world where gravity and inertia carry no importance, only atomic forces and surface structures dominate. A silicon chip with hundreds or thousands of microscopic mirrors adjusting in unison, enabling the all optical network and removing the bottlenecks from the global telecommunications infrastructure. Imagine how different the world would be if miniaturized sensors, and computers could be embedded within materials, coated on surfaces, and spread throughout the environment, essentially making matter programmable You are imagining the microdomain, dominated by an incredible technology known as MEMS.
A MEMS device contains micro-circuitry on a tiny silicon chip into which a mechanical device such as a mirror or a sensor has been installeded. Potentially, such chips can be built in large quantities at low cost, making them cost-effective for numerous applications.
It is a technology that integrates complex electromechanical elements and processing circuitry on a chip, using a combination of fabrication techniques that handles the electronics, similar to the way integrated circuits are made, and processes called “micromachining,” . The end result is a unique and self-contained system that not only detects its environment but also has the capability of actively changing it. For this reason MEMS is also sometimes referred to as SMART MATTER.
Among the presently available uses of MEMS or those under study are:
Global position system sensors that can be included with courier parcels for continual tracking
Sensors built into the fabric of an airplane wing so that it can sense and react to air flow
Optical switching devices that can switch light signals over different paths at 20-nanosecond switching speeds
Sensor-driven heating and cooling systems that would improve energy savings
Basic Definitions/Terminology
Lab on a Chip technology is of interest in many areas. This technology can be utilized to synthesize chemicals efficiently and cost effectively as well as to carry out biological /clinical analyses, to perform combinatorial chemistry, all on a single, miniaturized device.
Micromaching is basically a self explanatory term. Referring to maching and fabrication at the micro & Nano levels.
Plasma Etching A process utilized in micromachining
Microfluidics a multidisciplinary field comprising physics, chemistry, engineering and biotechnology that studies the behavior of fluids at the microscale and mesoscale. Fluids at volumes thousands of times smaller than a single drop . In addition it concerns the design of systems in which such small volumes of fluids will be used.
Fluid behavior at the micro/nano scale differs from the behavior the we normally obeserve in "macrofluids" Factors such as electrokinetics, surface tension, energy dissipation, begin to dominate reactons.
Microfluidics is used in in micro-thermal and micro-propulsion technologies and gene chip technology.
Optical Switches optical switches are an opto-mechanical switch matrix system.
Nano- and Micro-Electromechanical Systems: Fundamentals of Nano- and Microengineering
Micro electro mechanical systems : an investigation of micro structures, sensors, actuators, machines, and systems : proceedings
Microsystem Engineering of Lab-on-a-Chip Devices
Mems Companies
The following is a very basic list of Companies, for a more extensive data base go to Our Companies Index
SKytroll
links coming up next.
www.geocities.com/aardduck/mems.html
Mems
Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) MOEMS Micro Optical Electronic Machines
Site MenuHomeNano TubesNanotech CompaniesNano Tech NewsQuantum DotsQuantum ComputingMolecular Self AssemblyMEMSBose Einstein CondensationFuel CellsSynthetic BloodGenomics CompaniesProteomics CompaniesDNA Micro-ArraysBioinformatics CompaniesStem CellsCloningBio-ChipsVenture Capital
Basic Terminology Companies Links
Picture an incredibly tiny machine so small that it is not visible to the human eye. Imagine machines no bigger than a grain of sand. Imagine hundreds of these machines aligned on a single silicon chip. . Imagine a world where gravity and inertia carry no importance, only atomic forces and surface structures dominate. A silicon chip with hundreds or thousands of microscopic mirrors adjusting in unison, enabling the all optical network and removing the bottlenecks from the global telecommunications infrastructure. Imagine how different the world would be if miniaturized sensors, and computers could be embedded within materials, coated on surfaces, and spread throughout the environment, essentially making matter programmable You are imagining the microdomain, dominated by an incredible technology known as MEMS.
A MEMS device contains micro-circuitry on a tiny silicon chip into which a mechanical device such as a mirror or a sensor has been installeded. Potentially, such chips can be built in large quantities at low cost, making them cost-effective for numerous applications.
It is a technology that integrates complex electromechanical elements and processing circuitry on a chip, using a combination of fabrication techniques that handles the electronics, similar to the way integrated circuits are made, and processes called “micromachining,” . The end result is a unique and self-contained system that not only detects its environment but also has the capability of actively changing it. For this reason MEMS is also sometimes referred to as SMART MATTER.
Among the presently available uses of MEMS or those under study are:
Global position system sensors that can be included with courier parcels for continual tracking
Sensors built into the fabric of an airplane wing so that it can sense and react to air flow
Optical switching devices that can switch light signals over different paths at 20-nanosecond switching speeds
Sensor-driven heating and cooling systems that would improve energy savings
Basic Definitions/Terminology
Lab on a Chip technology is of interest in many areas. This technology can be utilized to synthesize chemicals efficiently and cost effectively as well as to carry out biological /clinical analyses, to perform combinatorial chemistry, all on a single, miniaturized device.
Micromaching is basically a self explanatory term. Referring to maching and fabrication at the micro & Nano levels.
Plasma Etching A process utilized in micromachining
Microfluidics a multidisciplinary field comprising physics, chemistry, engineering and biotechnology that studies the behavior of fluids at the microscale and mesoscale. Fluids at volumes thousands of times smaller than a single drop . In addition it concerns the design of systems in which such small volumes of fluids will be used.
Fluid behavior at the micro/nano scale differs from the behavior the we normally obeserve in "macrofluids" Factors such as electrokinetics, surface tension, energy dissipation, begin to dominate reactons.
Microfluidics is used in in micro-thermal and micro-propulsion technologies and gene chip technology.
Optical Switches optical switches are an opto-mechanical switch matrix system.
Nano- and Micro-Electromechanical Systems: Fundamentals of Nano- and Microengineering
Micro electro mechanical systems : an investigation of micro structures, sensors, actuators, machines, and systems : proceedings
Microsystem Engineering of Lab-on-a-Chip Devices
Mems Companies
The following is a very basic list of Companies, for a more extensive data base go to Our Companies Index
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