11/16/2011 

Precision Mechatronics Pty Ltd acquired Surfx Technologies, which specializes in high-speed atmospheric plasma technology for MEMS, microfluidics, semiconductors, solar cells, medical devices, and other manufacturing.

11/15/2011 

Optex Systems entered into an MoU with Bridge Semiconductor Corporation to develop and sell thermal systems for a range of military applications. The thin-film ferroelectric technology aims to displace microbolometers for uncooled thermal sensing applications.

11/14/2011 

Auburn University chemical engineering researchers William R. Ashurst and Virginia A. Davis were awarded a National Science Foundation grant to investigate cellulose nanocrystals in MEMS.

11/09/2011 

Measurement Specialties Inc. (NASDAQ:MEAS), sensor designer and manufacturer, entered into an amendment to its senior secured credit facility dated June 1, 2010, among JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. and certain other parties.

11/09/2011 

The Ontario Centres of Excellence gave the Martin Walmsley Fellowship for Technological Entrepreneurship award, totalling $50,000, to Innovative Processing Technologies Inc.

11/04/2011 

Sand 9, a MEMS oscillator developer, reports that it has raised $3,095,262 of its 6,190,528 equity funding round, in a recent SEC filing.

11/02/2011 

Micronit opened its MEMS division, specializing in the design, prototyping and manufacturing of MEMS devices and wafers based on glass and silicon.

11/01/2011 

Huntsman Corporation (NYSE:HUN) Advanced Materials division sold its stereolithography resin and Digitalis MEMS manufacturing machine businesses to 3D Systems Corporation (NYSE:DDD) for $41 million in cash.

11/01/2011 

Micrel Inc. (Nasdaq:MCRL) has begun manufacturing MEMS at its San Jose, CA wafer foundry operations, offering 6" wafer fab and tools to produce advanced MEMS devices.

10/27/2011 

Helsinki-based ScanNano,a private Finnish R&D firm that specializes in MEMS technology at the nanoscale, has partnered with STMicroelectronics with the goal of combining RF MEMS and CMOS.

10/24/2011 

Researchers from NIST and University of Colorado Boulder developed a low-power microchip combining microfluidics and magnetic switches to trap and transport magnetic beads.

10/19/2011 

MIT researchers developed a glass-stamp-based technique that helps fabricate lab-on-chip sensors at a lower cost than e-beam lithography and in a more reproducible manner than nanoimprint lithography.

10/14/2011 

mPhase Technologies was granted access to the technical facilities at the Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Labs, for work on its MEMS Smart silicon membrane, a key component of the mPhase Smart NanoBattery.

10/13/2011 

X-FAB Silicon Foundries Group and Senodia Technologies (Shanghai) Co., Ltd today announced they have concluded development and are ramping production of microelectromechanical system (MEMS) gyroscopes for high-volume consumer applications.

10/12/2011 

While the market has currently softened, early-2011 momentum will carry the year's semiconductor silicon sales to a higher total than 2010, said Stanley T. Myers, president and CEO of SEMI, noting the figures are an industry record. Growth will continue at "modest levels" through 2013.

10/11/2011 

EQT III will sell VTI Technologies, leading independent designer and manufacturer of high-performance MEMS sensors, to the publicly listed Japanese electronic components company Murata Manufacturing.

10/11/2011 

Wafer supplier IQE released a customizable range of silicon on insulator (SOI) products that IQE reports afford improved thickness and doping control.

10/10/2011 

Imec says it has developed a f_T/f_MAX 245GHz/450GHz SiGe:C heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) device, useful for future high-volume millimeter-wave circuits in various applications.

10/05/2011 

Submit an abstract now to present at a group of co-located micro/nano manufacturing conferences. MM Live USA 2012 will co-locate with MEMS Live USA and NANO Live USA in Rosemont, IL, March 7-8.

10/04/2011 

The maturing MEMS market and increased adoption of secondary equipment for semiconductor manufacturing have led deposition and etch tool supplier memsstar Limited to expand in Livingston, Scotland. memsstar added new positions in logistics, administration, and skilled and semi-skilled engineering to its jobs roster in conjunction with the expansion.