Best Known Practices Guide
MIG invites you to author a Best Known Practices (BKP) whitepaper. Launched as a direct action from METRIC 2008 recommendations, the goal of this project is to give members up to date information of what we know now as an industry group rather than to implement a set of standards. These whitepapers will be living documents to be updated as technology changes and the industry grows.
MIG will provide a suggested template to assist you with the format of the guide. BKP whitepaper submissions will be reviewed by other MIG members for their opinions and additional resources on the topic. Authors get a final review and approval before the whitepaper is published on the members-only section of the MIG website.
For more information on this project, visit www.memsindustrygroup.org/bestknownpractices.
Funding Opportunity: DARPA PROPHECY Teaming Day
DARPA's viral pathogen surveillance program known as "Prophecy" is based on a multi-year investment in the preemptive prediction of emerging viruses using in-silica models validated by high-throughput biological validation systems, all of which are corrected by the real-time reporting of mutations in animal reservoirs or humans. A Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) will soon be released for Prophecy which will seek integrated multi-disciplinary solutions to predicting viral pathogens before emergence in natural ecologies.
We believe that members of the American MEMS Industry Group would offer novel approaches to assist DARPA in this challenging program. In particular, we are interested in approaches that can acquire high-throughput, quantitative information from in vitro systems required to detect rare events and the ability to tune and characterize evolutionary pressures to validate predictive models. Such methods may include, but are not limited to: modeling, microfluidics, high-resolution and massively parallel imaging, flow cytometry. In particular labeled and label-free monitoring of viruses in cells via optical, electrical or mechanical may be areas where innovations from the MEMS community could greatly contribute to an interdisciplinary effort by implementing such schemes in a high-throughput manner.
Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the program Prophecy and its goal of predicting pathogen evolution, collaborations will be necessary and we envision that it may take time to formulate productive teams. To this end DARPA will be holding teaming meetings to introduce potential responders to the Prophecy BAA and encourage their collaboration in the pursuit of multidisciplinary approaches to the program. There will be 2 meetings which are described in the attached Special Notice (DARPA-SN-10-48).
For more information: http://www.darpa.mil/dso/solicitations/sn10-48.htm
IEEE MEMS 2011 Conference - Abstract Deadline September 14, 2010
The IEEE MEMS 2011 Conference will be held 23-27 January 2011 at the Hilton Cancun Resort in Cancun, Mexico. Don't miss this great opportunity to attend the IEEE MEMS 2011 Conference, one of the most prestigious conferences in MEMS as well as visit Cancun, Mexico.
The MEMS 2011 Conference is an electronic abstract submission process. The abstract submission process is easy, quick and again, totally electronic. Go to the web-site http://www.ieee-mems2011.org to obtain your abstract reference number and upload your abstract by the deadline. The ability to obtain your abstract reference number and submit your abstracts will close September 14th (11:59 Hawaii time/GMT-10 Hours). This deadline is a firm deadline as we have given you all the extra days the schedule will allow. Please visit the web-site http://www.ieee-mems2011.org for all details and guidelines pertaining to the submission of the abstracts.
Abstract Classification Categories include but not limited to:
Fabrication Technologies
Deposition; growth; top down structuring (MEMS specific advances in lithography, etching, high aspect ratio technologies); bottom up structuring (nano imprinting, self-assembly, structured growth); surface modification; micro assembly; 3-D fabrication; process integration.
Packaging Technologies
Zero-level and/or wafer level packaging; wafer level functional testing. wafer bonding, bonding and interconnects.
Materials and Device Characterization
Novel functional materials; MEMS materials under new operating conditions; measurement of material properties; calibration and compensation; failure analysis; degradation mechanisms and drift; reliability.
Mechanical Sensors and Systems
Sensors and systems for inertial forces (accelerometers, gyroscopes, shock sensors), pressure, force, stress; resonant sensors and systems; acoustic sensors and systems (including MEMS ultrasound systems).
Physical MEMS (Optical, Magneto)
Sensors and systems for electromagnetic quantities; optical sensors, MEMS based photonic systems, integrated optics (lenses); micro mirrors and MEMS displays.
RF MEMS
MEMS oscillators, filters (including BAWs, FBARs); switches; phase shifters; inductors and varactors; RF MEMS based systems (including integration of passives); wave-guides, antennas, MEMS micro wave components.
Bio and Chemical Micro Sensors and Systems Micro-total-analysis systems; micro-PCR systems; chemical and biochemical sensors and systems; MEMS based gas sensors.
Medical Microsystems
Implantable devices; drug delivery; micro device/system for clinical use.
Micro-Fluidic Components and Systems
Pumps, valves, mixers, and separators; microchannel gas and liquid flows; two-phase flows; suspension flows, droplet and bubble dynamics; thermal devices and systems (including thermal flow sensors); electrokinetic flow/dielectrophoresis/electrowetting.
Micro-Actuators
Springs and grippers; motors; beam and membrane actuators; MEMS-based robotics.
Energy Harvesting and Power MEMS
Micro energy conversion systems (micro fuel cell, bio fuel cell, micro engines); energy harvesting device (micro thermoelectric devices, vibration-driven generators); micro batteries; micro cooling systems; micro thrusters.
Nano-Electro-Mechanical Devices and Systems Nanotubes and nanowires; self-organized nano structures; molecular machinery, nanoactuators, nanorobots; nanoelectronic devices with sensing applications; nanostructure integration, interfaces and packaging.
For further information or questions regarding this MEMS 2011 Conference or your upcoming trip to Cancun, please visit the web-site or directly contact:
IEEE MEMS 2011 Conference
Email: info@ieee-mems2011.org
Web-site: http://ieee-mems2011.org
Call for authors: Become an Artech House/MIG Author
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Artech House and MIG have formed an exclusive publishing partnership to provide potential authors in MIG-member companies with “inside access” to a leading high-technology professional publishing program.
With over 1500 titles published, Artech House has built a worldwide reputation as a leading publisher of high quality books in communications engineering, microwave, radar, semiconductors, sensors, and related areas. We are now rapidly developing a top-quality publishing program in MEMS and nanotechnology and are seeking potential authors among engineers and managers who feel they can make a contribution to the literature in their areas of expertise. If you have published technical papers, conducted professional seminars, or solved important real-world problems, you are an excellent candidate for authorship.
When you publish through the MIG/Artech House co-publishing program, you enhance your professional prestige, earn substantial royalties, and benefit your trade association.
We invite you to submit your manuscript proposal for review. For a complete publications catalog and Author's Questionnaire, please contact:
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Wayne Yahasz, Editor
Executive Acquisitions Editor
Artech House
685 Canton St
Norwood, MA 02062
Tel: 781.769.9750, ext. 4087
e-mail: wyuhasz@artechhouse.com
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Tiina Ruonamaa
Commissioning Editor
Artech House
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