Market for New Types of MEMS Booms in 2011
El Segundo, Calif., April 11, 2011—After only four years of existence, a segment of the microelectromechanical system (MEMS) market . .
Tag: Sensors And Transducers
Is it Better to Design Your Own Semiconductors, Apple Might Thinks So
Last year, Apple surprised some in the industry when it developed its own custom CPU, namely the package-on-package, system-on-chip . .
MEMS microphone has footprint under 1 x 1 mm
Thanks to a combination of design and manufacturing techniques brought together through corporate acquisition, the AKU230 monolithic MEMS microphone . .
Smallest analog MEMS gyro aims for broad array of consumer apps
Housed in a package measuring only 4 x 4 x 1 mm, the L3G462A three-axis analog-output MEMS gyroscope is . .
Shell and HP Advance Seismic Sensing Capabilities
HOUSTON, March 23, 2011 – Shell and HP today announced a breakthrough in the capability of their jointly developed . .
Japan’s Digital Compass Makers Work to Maintain Supply Amid Earthquake Aftermath
El Segundo, Calif., March 23, 2011—Despite widespread disruption to Japan’s transportation and utility infrastructure, the country’s digital compass makers . .
Resolvers meet tough environmental specs
Providing enhanced accuracy (±7 arc-min) for precise motion control, the Hawk 1-in. resolver series meets multiple military/aerospace specifications — . .
Improving control with MEMS inertial sensors
Recent sensor technology developments are enabling revolutionary improvements in robotics and other industrial system designs. In addition to robotics, . .
Beamforming in medical ultrasound
Beamforming is a common signal processing technique used to create directional or spatial selectivity of signals sent to or . .
Spectrometer aids cleanup of sites with radioactive contamination
The staff at Oregon State University College of Engineering has been working on a new type of radiation detection . .