From the printing press to the jet engine, mechanical machines with moving parts have been a mainstay of technology for centuries. As U.S. industry develops smaller mechanical systems, they face ...

One of the many counterintuitive and bizarre insights of quantum mechanics is that even in a vacuum—what many of us think of as an empty void—all is not completely still. Low levels of noise, known as ...

(Nanowerk News) From the printing press to the jet engine, mechanical machines with moving parts have been a mainstay of technology for centuries. As U.S. industry develops smaller mechanical systems, ...

Achieving unidirectional signal flow—where information travels in only one direction—is vital for next-generation communication systems. Micromechanical devices leveraging parity-time (PT) symmetry ...

Polymers embedded with nanoparticles in different magnetic orientations produce complex motion under simple magnetic fields. Polymers are convenient instruments for producing mechanical motion at the ...

Sacrificial polysilicon surface micromachining is emerging as a technology that enables the mass production of complex microelectromechanical systems by themselves, or integrated with microelectronic ...

Improving the lifetime of microscopic mechanical devices by using a mechanical property of liquids could have significant consequences for medicine and electronics. Micro-electromechanical systems ...

Fluid dispensing systems are evolving in order to address the challenges that system-in-package (SiP) and micromechanical systems (MEMS) packages face, especially in regard to tight geometries and ...

For the first time, researchers have measured the transfer of motion through the contacting parts of a microelectromechanical system at nanometer and microradian scales. From the printing press to the ...

Scientists have managed to engineer a miniature silicon system that produces a type of light that is quieter at certain frequencies -- meaning it has fewer quantum fluctuations -- than what is usually ...

From the printing press to the jet engine, mechanical machines with moving parts have been a mainstay of technology for centuries. As U.S. industry develops smaller mechanical systems, they face ...