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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

Learn more about NEMS/MEMS from the many resources on this site, listed below. More information on NEMS/MEMS can be found here.

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  1. 2009 GEM4 Summer School - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lecture 5: Mechanics insights into the pathophysiology of human disease; Microfluidics approaches to studying human diseases

    Online Presentations | 20 Jul 2010 | Contributor(s):: Chwee Teck Lim

  2. Comb Drive Levitation

    Tools | 19 Jan 2010 | Contributor(s):: Fengyuan (Thomas) Li, jason clark

    Model comb drive levitation effect with Schwarz-Christoffel based algorithm

  3. SugarCube

    Tools | 19 Jan 2010 | Contributor(s):: jason clark, Quincy Clark

    MEMS design, modeling, and simulation

  4. Carbon Nanotube Relay

    Tools | 01 Apr 2009 | Contributor(s):: Sansiri Tanachutiwat, wei wang

    CNT NEMS as mechanical relay for memory applications

  5. Peanuts vs. Pyramids: Two Perspectives on MEMS

    Online Presentations | 23 Nov 2009 | Contributor(s):: Stephen D. Senturia

    MEMS, the acronym for Micro-electromechanical Systems, also known simply as “Micro-systems,” come in two main types: commodity products (the peanuts) and MEMS-enabled products (the pyramids, or, more correctly, the inverted pyramids). The economics of scale greatly affect how these two classes of...

  6. Molecular Sensors for MEMS

    Online Presentations | 09 Dec 2009 | Contributor(s):: John P. Sullivan

    This seminar will cover the issues involved in using molecular sensors in MEMS and their application to microchannels, supersonic micronozzles, microjet impingement, microturbines and unsteady fluidic actuators.

  7. VEDA: Amplitude Modulated Scanning

    Tools | 20 Oct 2009 | Contributor(s):: John Melcher, Shuiqing Hu, Arvind Raman, Steven Douglas Johnson, Daniel Kiracofe

    This tool is being replaced by VEDA 2.0. Use that tool instead.

  8. Nanotribology, Nanomechanics and Materials Characterization Studies

    Online Presentations | 08 Jun 2009 | Contributor(s):: Bharat Bhushan

    Fundamental nanotribological studies provide insight to molecular origins of interfacial phenomena including adhesion, friction, wear and lubrication. Friction and wear of lightly loaded micro/nano components are highly dependent on the surface interactions (few atomic layers). Nanotribological...

  9. The Challenges of Micro-System Product Development

    Online Presentations | 05 Jun 2009 | Contributor(s):: James J. Allen

    This talk will discuss the historical development of micro‐system technology, the products that have been developed and the challenges to development of a reliable product.

  10. SUGARCube - ADXL Accelerometer

    Tools | 03 May 2009 | Contributor(s):: Fengyuan Li, Jason Clark

    Modeling and simulationg of ADXL accelerometer

  11. Q-factor calculator with Uncertainty Quantification

    Tools | 06 May 2009 | Contributor(s):: Sruti Chigullapalli, Xiaohui Guo, Alina Alexeenko

    Calculates squeeze-film damping Q-factors of microcantilevers for arbitrary ambient pressures

  12. SUGARCube - Chevron Thermal Actuator

    Tools | 27 Apr 2009 | Contributor(s):: Fengyuan Li, Jason Clark

    Modeling and Simulation of a Chevron Thermal Actuator

  13. Experiences with nonintrusive polynomial Chaos and stochastic collocation methods for uncertainty analysis and design

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    Online Presentations | 13 Mar 2009 | Contributor(s):: Michael S. Eldred

    Non—intrusive polynomial chaos expansion (PCE) and stochastic collocation (SC) methods are attractive techniques for uncertainty quantification due to their abilities to produce functional representations of stochastic variability and to achieve exponential convergence rates in statistics...

  14. SUGARCube - Netlist Input Tool

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    Tools | 15 Jul 2008 | Contributor(s):: Fengyuan Li, Jason Clark

    Simulate the user input netlist by SUGAR2.0

  15. MEMS Resonator - Tang

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    Tools | 04 Jan 2009 | Contributor(s):: Fengyuan Li, Jason Clark

    Parametric Tang's Comb-Drive Modeling and Simulation

  16. PRISM Seminar Series

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    Series | 05 Nov 2008 | Contributor(s):: Jayathi Murthy, Alejandro Strachan

    Welcome to the PRISM Seminar Series.PRIMS: NNSA Center for Prediction of Reliability, Integrity and Survivability of Microsystems, is a university center funded by the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) under their Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC)...

  17. Gas Damping of Microcantilevers at Low Ambient Pressures

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    Online Presentations | 03 Nov 2008 | Contributor(s):: Rahul Anil Bidkar

    This seminar will present a theoretical model for predicting the gas damping of long, rectangular silicon microcantilevers, which are oscillating in an unbounded gaseous medium with the ambient pressures varying over 5 orders of magnitude (1000 > Kn > 0.03). The work is the result of a...

  18. SUGARCube - Cantilever

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    Tools | 01 May 2008 | Contributor(s):: Fengyuan Li, Brandon Patterson, Jason Clark, yi zeng

    Cantilever modeling and simulation with different loads

  19. Micro-fabricated Biosensors for Cardiac Diagnostics

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    Online Presentations | 30 Jul 2008 | Contributor(s):: V.Ramgopal Rao

    In this talk the current status of an ongoing effort in the Electrical Engineering Department at IIT Bombay on the development of an integrated systems to provide point-of-care diagnostic support for cardiovascular diseases will be presented. The system under development monitors the molecular...

  20. NCN NEMS: Research Seminars

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    Series | 19 Jun 2008

    Many research seminars are available on the nanoHUB. Listed below are a few that discuss new NEMS device possiblities.