NEMS

1st International Electronic Conference on Micromachines and Applications

November 1, 2017

Letter from Editor: I am pleased to announce the 1st International Electronic Conference on Micromachines and Applications, which will be held on 1-15 November 2017 on this special platform, Sciforum, developed by MDPI in 2017. The [more...]

Graphene Nanosensor Enables Ultra-sensitive Mass Detection

May 13, 2017

Using a graphene nanoribbon suspended over a trench, a team of researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China has discovered a link between the nanomechanical motion and conductance through a single-electron transistor [more...]

Researchers to Develop Breathalyzer-type Low Blood Sugar Warning Device for Diabetes

October 25, 2015

Researchers in the Integrated Nanosystems Development Institute Lab are developing nanosensors to Identify the signature breath odorants that are produced in human breath by specific volatile organic compounds that are created by the [more...]

Micro and Nano Engineering 2015

September 21, 2015

MNE 2015 is the 41st international conference on micro- and nanofabrication and manufacturing using lithography and related techniques. The conference brings together engineers and scientists from all over the world to discuss recent [more...]

Buliding a Better Micromachine

August 30, 2015

Plasma electrons emerging from a nozzle to form a microelectronic structure that is only as wide as a strand of human hair (Image Credit: SOUVIK GHOSH) To get a sense of how Christian Zorman and his colleagues aim to create a [more...]

International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels 2015

July 6, 2015

ICNMM provides a global platform for researchers to exchange information and identify research needs in the emerging areas of microscale and nanoscale transport processes and systems encompassing many engineering and bio-medical [more...]

Weighing and Imaging Molecules One at a Time

May 8, 2015

Multimode nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) based mass sensor; the main figure schematically depicts a doubly-clamped beam vibrating in fundamental mode (1). Conceptual “snapshots” of the first six vibrational modes are shown below [more...]

Graphene for Nanopore-based DNA Sequencing

May 8, 2015

Fig.1 Optical and schematic images of a GFET device A research team led by Steven Prawer and Jiri Cervenka at the University of Melbourne, Australia fabricated a graphene field-effect transistor (GFET)—a layer of graphene atop a layer of [more...]

Optical Nanoantennas Set the Stage for a NEMS Lab-on-a-chip Revolution

February 25, 2015

This is a schematic representation of unidirectional cubic nanoantennas inducing directionality to omnidirectional nanoemitters (light sources, e.g., spasers, quantum dots), to precisely focus light with adjustable beam width and [more...]

Nanomotor in Drug Delivery Application

October 13, 2014

Researchers at the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin say they have built the smallest, fastest and longest-running synthetic motor to date. The nanomotor is a step toward developing miniature machines [more...]