09/03/2013  Team of UC Riverside researchers pioneer new approach for graphene logic circuits.

08/19/2013 

Chemical engineers find that arrays of carbon nanotubes can detect flaws in drugs and help improve production.

08/16/2013 

Pixy is a small camera about half the size of a business card that can detect objects that you "train" it to detect.

08/07/2013 

Researchers at North Carolina State University have created a new flexible nano-scaffold for rechargeable lithium ion batteries that could help make cell phone and electric car batteries last longer.

08/06/2013 

In 2012, the IC industry saw a two percent decline, but Yole Développement's research reveals the MEMS sector managed another 10 percent growth to become an $11B business.

08/02/2013 

InvenSense, Inc., a provider of MotionTracking system on chip devices, is relocating its headquarters to 1745 Technology Drive, San Jose, California.

07/31/2013 

Product validation is an essential part of all successful MEMS new product developments. It is the process of testing products under various environmental, mechanical or electrical conditions to simulate life in an accelerated manner.

07/30/2013 

Light and proximity sensors in mobile handsets and tablets are set for expansive double-digit growth within a five-year period, thanks to increasing usage by electronic giants Samsung and Apple.

07/29/2013 

MediaTek Inc., a  fabless semiconductor company for wireless communications and digital multimedia solutions, today announced its breakthrough MT8135 system-on-chip (SoC) for high-end tablets.

07/25/2013 

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of North Carolina have demonstrated a new design for an instrument, a "instrumented nanoscale indenter," that makes sensitive measurements of the mechanical properties of thin films -- ranging from auto body coatings to microelectronic devices -- and biomaterials.

07/24/2013 

Companies announce alliance to bring high-performance sensors to market.

07/23/2013 

CEA-Leti today announced that a group of European and Japanese companies, research institutes, universities and cities will work together in the ClouT project to deliver ways for cities to leverage the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing – to become smart cities.

07/15/2013 

CEA-Leti said today that it and three partners in the SOCRATE project are developing innovative concepts to significantly improve the directivity of electrically small antennas.

07/03/2013 

CEA-Leti announced today €1 million in funding from bpifrance to accelerate preclinical development of a liver-cancer detection system called LipImage 815.

06/21/2013 

UC Santa Barbara researchers demonstrate first n-type field effect transistors on monolayer tungsten diselenide with record performance.

06/20/2013 

Market demand for new sensors will lead to a $6.4B market by 2018.

06/10/2013 

In the development of new MEMS products, the team is the most important factor.

06/04/2013 

Fab equipment spending will grow two percent year-over-year  (US$ 32.5 billion) for 2013 and about 23 to 27 percent in 2014 ($41 billion) according to the May edition of the SEMI World Fab Forecast.

05/18/2013  The semiconductor industry has greatly benefited from the push to mobile technology, but what’s next?

05/17/2013 

The winning teams successfully conceptualized, developed and built demonstrable prototypes of entirely new applications using ST's iNEMO MEMS sensor-fusion modules.