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The full MEMS Journal archive — 29 articles across two decades of sensors, MEMS, and microtechnology.
MEMS enabled high-resolution seismic sensing
The oil and gas industry requires high-quality seismic data to accurately assess exploration prospects for commercial viability and to effectively monitor producing reservoirs. At International Petroleum Week 2010 last week, HP and Shell announced a collaboration to develop a wireless sensing system to acquire…
Inertial MEMS sensors for consumer applications
by Richard Dixon and Jérémie Bouchaud, Wicht Technologie Consulting The market for MEMS inertial sensors (accelerometers and gyroscopes) is set to grow from $835 million in 2004 to over $1360 million in 2009 — a CAGR of 10%. Currently, the main applications are in the automotive industry . These markets are well…
Cell Phones and MEMS
Cell phone based games are hot in the Far East. Samsung, the fifth largest cell phone maker in the world, is now incorporating MEMS accelerometers to allow users enhance their gaming experience with action and sports games. Our take is that while enhancements allowed by MEMS are not critical to the performance of…
MEMS Activity at Analog Devices
Bill Giudice is vice president and general manager of the Micromachined Products Division at Analog Devices . We recently spoke with Bill about current MEMS related activities at ADI as well as plans for the future .
Freescale Targets Consumer Applications with Three-Axis Sensor
Freescale put out a press release today about their 3-D accelerometers. It looks like they are especially pushing consumer applications such as scroll-by-tilt and freefall detection. Samsung Electronics designed the sensor into two of its newest digital audio players. It seems that these sensors can indeed offer…