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microelectromechanical

Definitions

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  • adjective Describing any very small electromechanical system or device that is larger than a nanoelectromechanical one.

Etymologies

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micro- +‎ electromechanical

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Examples

  • Driven in part by the rapid rise in acceleromter adoption, iSuppli expects sales of all kinds of "microelectromechanical" sensors or MEMs for mobiles phones to jump from about $460.9 million in 2008 to

    Prediction: Accelerometers in 33% of mobile phones by 2010 2009

  • A University of Florida research team is developing nano-batteries that could enable smaller, smarter, feature-packed mobile devices, as well as truly tiny power sources for "microelectromechanical" devices (aka MEMS):

    Boing Boing: October 13, 2002 - October 19, 2002 Archives 2002

  • Physicists at JILA have demonstrated that the warmer a surface is, the stronger its subtle ability to attract nearby atoms, a finding that could affect the design of devices that rely on small-scale interactions, such as atom chips, nanomachines and microelectromechanical systems.

    Science Press Releases 2007

  • Current microelectromechanical systems – used in accelerometers, car air-bag triggers, and optical switches that transfer light from one fiber to another – have moving parts separated by about one micrometer.

    Levitating Nanomachines | Impact Lab 2007

  • Smartdust is a hypothetical network of tiny wireless microelectromechanical systems including sensors, robots, or other devices, installed with wireless communications, that can detect anything from light, to temperature, to vibrations, to chemical composition, etc.

    Reinventing Property Rights on the Nano Scale | Impact Lab 2007

  • Claim 1 - " A microelectronic or microelectromechanical device, comprising: a substrate, wherein the substrate includes an oxide layer and an etch stop layer for the oxide layer; and a fiber formed of a carbon-containing material."

    Archive 2006-10-01 Peter Zura 2006

  • Claim 1 - "A microelectromechanical resonator comprising: a microelectromechanical resonant structure characterized by a mass and one or more selectively doped regions; a vaporizable material for altering the mass of the resonant structure."

    Archive 2006-10-01 Peter Zura 2006

  • Claim 1 - "A microelectromechanical device, comprising a beam configured to apply an opening force on a closed switch, wherein the opening force is substantially independent of a force stored in the closed switch."

    Archive 2006-10-01 Peter Zura 2006

  • US Patent 6,445,006 - "Microelectronic and microelectromechanical devices comprising carbon nanotube components, and methods of making same ," priority July 27, 1999

    Archive 2006-10-01 Peter Zura 2006

  • The resulting material has potential for use in low-friction, wear-resistant coatings, catalyst supports for fuel cells, high-voltage electronics, low-power, high-bandwidth radio frequency microelectromechanical/nanoelectromechanical systems MEMS/NEMS, thermionic energy generation, low-energy consumption flat panel displays and hydrogen storage.

    The New Diamond-Nanotube Composite Material | Impact Lab 2005

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  • Stiction is a growing problem for engineers working with ever tinier devices because it gums up the works of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) – which are increasingly used to make things like airbag sensors – and also affects computer hard drives and other devices with small moving parts.

    New Scientist, 28 June 2008

    July 16, 2008