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R&D: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Researchers have developed a new way to 3D print glass microstructures that is faster and produces objects with higher optical quality, design flexibility, and strength. They...
R&D: Materials
Researchers are working on a coating that mimics bone tissue.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The new design improves the conversion efficiency and power density of the chip.
Briefs: Materials
The devices eliminate the need for invasive removal once they have served their purpose.
R&D: Medical
Researchers have shown how to coat glass and plastic with porous titanium dioxide.
Briefs: Medical
Optical fibers make the Internet happen. They are fine threads of glass, as thin as a human hair, produced to transmit light. Optical fibers carry thousands of gigabits of data...
Technology Leaders: Materials
In working with various medical equipment such as needles, syringes, trocars, cannulas, guide-wires, catheters, and valves, medical device designers must account for...
R&D: Medical
An optical whispering gallery mode resonator can spin light around the circumference of a tiny sphere millions of times, creating an ultrasensitive microchip-based sensor for multiple...
Features: Medical
There has been a profound shift is taking place in the medical industry of more minimally invasive, quicker, and more-effective procedures....
Features: Photonics/Optics
Four lasers can be used for micro welding: pulsed neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet (Nd:YAG), continuous wave (CW) fiber, quasi continuous wave (QCW)...
Features: Materials
Adhesive compounds play a critical role in the fabrication of assemblies for electronic, optical, and mechanical systems. In securing multiple components into a single structure, bonding...
Briefs: Medical
Brigham Young University researchers have developed glass technology that could add a new level of flexibility to the microscopic world of medical devices.
Features: Medical
Today’s medical device designers and OEMs are challenged to meet a wide, and sometimes conflicting, range of requirements. These targets stem not only from regulatory restrictions, but...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Glass fibers do everything from connecting us to the Internet to enabling keyhole surgery by delivering light through an endoscope. But as versatile as today’s fiber optics are,...
Features: Materials
Medical device assemblies present unique challenges beyond those associated with manufacturing and assembly of products for consumer and industrial applications. While sharing the need for...
Briefs: Medical
Polylactic acid, or PLA, is a biodegradable polymer commonly used to make a variety of products, from disposable cups to medical implants to drug-delivery systems. A team of Brown University...
R&D: Medical
Ultrathin, Flat Lens Captures Chirality And Color
Many things in the natural world are geometrically chiral, meaning they cannot be superimposed onto their mirror image. Being able to observe and analyze the chirality of an object is very important in numerous fields. However, current chiral imaging techniques to resolve polarization and spectral...
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Northeastern University’s Hanchen Huang, a professor and chair of the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, and two of his PhD students say they have come up with a better way of...
Briefs: Medical
3D printing may be used to custom manufacture electronics.
A group of researchers from the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, has demonstrated that combining two technologies—one to...
R&D: Robotics, Automation & Control
Gecko-Inspired Gripper Supports Tunable Adhesion
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a gecko-inspired gripper. Like the gecko, the device has the ability to grip and release smooth surfaces like glass. The effective stickiness can also be tuned from strong to week.
Briefs: Medical
Folded paper design inspired flexible electronics.
Kirigami, the Japanese art of folding and paper cutting, has inspired a team of engineers at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, to create...
Features: Materials
Hospital acquired infections (HAIs) represent one of the key challenges facing today’s healthcare industry. According to a recent study published by the...
R&D: Medical
Scientists seeking an inexpensive way to turn a cell phone into a high powered, high quality microscope that can be used to identify biological samples in the field, turned to a colleague at the U.S....
Global Innovations: Imaging
Holst Centre, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, and Imec, Leuven, Belgium
http://www2.imec.be/be_en/home.html
A team of researchers from the Holst Centre working with colleagues at Imec...
Briefs: Medical
High-Density, Homogenous Bacterial Spore Distributions on Test Surfaces
Thus far, spore transfer had been successful from the polycarbonate membrane onto stainless steel, aluminum, and to some extent, glass. In order to image the endospores under an ESEM (environmental scanning electron microscope), the spores were transferred onto a 4-mmdiameter,...
Technology Leaders: Medical
The medical device market is undergoing an unprecedented period of growth due to a dramatic global population boom, an expanding middle class, and...
Briefs: Medical
By incorporating the benefits of passivation with surface finish improvement and micro-deburring, electropolishing has become the finish of choice for metal...
R&D: Photonics/Optics
Cutting-edge research being conducted by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University could dramatically shrink...
R&D: Robotics, Automation & Control
Accelerator on a Chip Could Lead to Improved Lasers, X-Rays
Cutting-edge research being conducted by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University could...
Top Stories
Features: Motion Control
Precision in Motion: The Future of Robotics and Automation in Medical...
INSIDER: Materials
3D Ink Improves Comfort, Durability of ‘Smart Wearables’
INSIDER: Medical
Wound Dressings Made of Drug-Releasing Polymers
INSIDER: Wearables
Wearable Mimics CT Scans, Delivers Continuous Monitoring of Heart, Lungs
Briefs: Materials
Advanced Laser Welding Techniques for Titanium Pacemaker Housing:...
From the Editor: Design
From the Editor - Welcome to the Inaugural Medical Design Briefs Resource...
Ask the Expert
John Chandler on Achieving Quality Motion Control
FAULHABER MICROMO brings together the highest quality motion technologies and value-added services, together with global engineering, sourcing, and manufacturing, to deliver top quality micro motion solutions. With 34 years’ experience, John Chandler injects a key engineering perspective into all new projects and enjoys working closely with OEM customers to bring exciting new technologies to market.
Webcasts
Upcoming Webinars: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Precision Under Pressure: The Centerless Grinding Advantage in...
Upcoming Webinars: Medical
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Medical Devices
Podcasts: Robotics, Automation & Control
Advances in Autonomous Surgical Robotic Systems
On-Demand Webinars: Medical
Designing Medical Devices with Confidence: Using Servo Ultrasonic and/or Laser...
Podcasts: Connectivity
AI and Machine Learning in Medical Device Cybersecurity
Podcasts: Connectivity
The Growing Impact of Cybersecurity on Patient Safety in Medical Devices
Inside Story
Inside Story: Establishing Safe EO Sterilization for Medical Devices
To find out more about the expertise required to establish a safe and effective EO Sterilization for medical devices, MDB recently spoke with Elizabeth Sydnor, director of microbiology for Eurofins Medical Device Testing (Lancaster, PA).
