Tags: NEMS/MEMS

Description

The term Nanoelectromechanical systems or NEMS is used to describe devices integrating electrical and mechanical functionality on the nanoscale. NEMS typically integrate transistor-like nanoelectronics with mechanical actuators, pumps, or motors, and may thereby form physical, biological, and chemical sensors.

Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) (also written as micro-electro-mechanical, MicroElectroMechanical or microelectronic and microelectromechanical systems) is the technology of very small mechanical devices driven by electricity; it merges at the nano-scale into nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) and nanotechnology.

MEMS are separate and distinct from the hypothetical vision of molecular nanotechnology or molecular electronics. MEMS are made up of components between 1 to 100 micrometres in size (i.e. 0.001 to 0.1 mm) and MEMS devices generally range in size from 20 micrometres (20 millionths of a metre) to a millimetre. They usually consist of a central unit that processes data, the microprocessor and several components that interact with the outside such as microsensors

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  1. E3S Theme II: Nanomechanics eBook

    Downloads | 22 Feb 2020 | Contributor(s):: Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science (editor), Tsu-Jae King Liu, Farnaz Niroui, Edgar Acosta, Sergio Fabian Almeida, Vladimir Bulovic, Sara Fathipour, Jinchi Han, Jeffrey H. Lang, Mariana Martinez, Jose Mireles, Rawan Naous, Benjamin Osoba, Jatin Patil, Bivas Saha, Mayuran Saravanapavanantham, Urmita Sikder, Vladimir Stojanovic, Timothy Swager, Aldo Vidana, Junqiao Wu, Alice Ye, David Zubia

    This eBook was written by faculty, postdoctoral researchers, students, and staff of the Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science (E3S). The Center is a consortium of five world-class academic institutions: University of California at Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,...

  2. Nanonewton Podcasts at MIT

    Downloads | 06 Mar 2007 | Contributor(s):: Jeremy Brittan

    Listen to podcast discussions with scientists and MIT students in the field of Nanomechanics in conjunction with the Spring 2007 MIT undergraduate engineering course: 3.052 Nanomechanics of Materials and Biomaterials. Your host: Professor Christine Ortizmore info at:...