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Supplements: Manufacturing & Prototyping
In our summer edition of the MDB Resource Guide, learn about new cleaning requirements and find the right company to match your medical-design needs.
Supplements: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
In our summer edition of the MDB Resource Guide, learn about new cleaning requirements and find the right company to match your medical-design needs.
Applications: Medical
Precisely targeted technological methodologies and devices that can solve specific healthcare problems are becoming increasingly important for medical applications.
R&D: Medical
Gadolinium-doped cerium oxide could be a promising alternative to certain piezoelectric materials. It is lead-free, which means that it could be employed in biocompatible medical applications. Further...
Briefs: Imaging
New optics-on-a-chip device paves way to capturing fast chemical, material, and biological processes.
Products: Medical
Open Aperture Voice Coil Stages
Designed for closed loop servo operation, a series of open aperture voice coil stages from Moticont, Van Nuys, CA, include a standard integral quadrature optical...
R&D: Tubing & Extrusion
The 3D printable nanocomposite polymeric ink uses carbon nanotubes.
Global Innovations: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The miniaturization of microelectronic sensor technology, microelectronic robots, and intravascular implants is progressing rapidly. However, it also poses major challenges for...
Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
A smart function kit, thermoelectric coolers, positioning stages, and more.
Podcasts: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This episode of our Tech Briefs podcast series Here’s an Idea™ explores a variety of new-and-improved hearing aids, from $5 “do-it-yourself” devices to advanced systems that monitor brain waves.
Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
EMI filters, plastic optic fibers, power modules, and more.
Briefs: Wearables
Worn on the fingertips like a thimble, the wearable helps reduce postural sway.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The strain-sensing sheet detects disorders in real time.
Products: Test & Measurement
Medical connectors, servo positioners, SMT jumpers, and more.
Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The Cordis flow controller requires less than a one-minute warmup.
Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Shielding materials, static control, 3D printing software, and more.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The device made of heart tissue and a robotic pumping system beats like the real thing.
Products: Medical
Photo Etching
A capabilities brochure from Tech-Etch, Plymouth, MA, describes how the photo etching process enables the company to produce prototype quantities and large production runs of intricate parts for many...
Podcasts: Robotics, Automation & Control
Engineers today are using their creativity to build a variety of superhero-like technologies that enhance our human capabilities, including exosuits, invisibility cloaks, and wall-scaling gloves.
What drives...
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Because atrial fibrillation (AF) often does not present symptoms, stroke is too often its first manifestation. For effective stroke prevention, timely diagnosis of AF is crucial. Mobile devices are...
Technology Leaders: Sensors/Data Acquisition
In the past, the decision to opt for a particular flow sensing technology in respirators and ventilation devices was a painstaking and complex process. More recently, however, flow...
Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Coto Technology Inc., North Kingstown, RI, has released the RedRock™ RR100 Micro-Electro- Mechanical Systems (MEMS)-based magnetic reed sensor that is ideally suited to the needs of medical,...
Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Mirrorcle Technologies, Richmond, CA, announces that its gimballess MEMS mirrors are now available with high reflectivity dielectric coatings for use in compact, short-pulse, Q-switched lasers. The company...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Molex, Inc., Lisle, IL, announces the launch of its new SlimStack™ SSB6 SMT microminiature board-to-board connectors. With an ultra-low profile (0.35 mm pitch) and compact size (0.60 mm height x 2.00 mm...
Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Posifa Microsystems, Inc., San Jose, CA, announces its new line of MEMS Pirani Vacuum Sensors. The PVC 1000 family embodies the latest MEMS innovations, and offer a breakthrough vacuum measurement solution that...
Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
DELO Industrial Adhesives LLC, Sudbury, MA, presents new MEMS adhesives combining high flexibility and strength, while providing the best processing properties. The newly developed MEMS adhesives are highly...
INSIDER: Photonics/Optics
Easy Scanning Detection of Eye Diseases
A new optical device about the size of a hand-held video camera, developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, can scan a patient’s entire retina in seconds and could aid primary care physicians in early detection of many retinal diseases, including diabetic retinopathy,...
R&D: Medical
Silver Circuits Create Conductive Fabric
Researchers at the National Physical Laboratory, Middlesex, UK, Electronics Interconnection group has developed a new method to produce conductive textiles, which could make...
News: Medical
Standardizing Measurements for MEMS
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has introduced a long-awaited measurement tool to help device designers, manufacturers, and customers to see eye to eye on eight dimensional and material property measurements that are key to device performance.
MEMS, once considered a stepchild of the...
Top Stories
INSIDER: Medical
Device Detects Infections from Skin Temperature
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
U.S. Tariffs: Implications and Strategies for Medtech Manufacturers
INSIDER: Design
Portable, Blood-Based Device Detects Colon Cancer
Applications: Medical
Parallel Fluidics Produces Ultra-Precise Microfluidics Prototypes with...
R&D: Medical
Tiny Spectral Sensor Identifies Materials
INSIDER: Medical
Ask the Expert
Dan Sanchez on How to Improve Extruded Components
Improving extruded components requires careful attention to a number of factors, including dimensional tolerance, material selection, and processing. Trelleborg’s Dan Sanchez provides detailed insights into each of these considerations to help you advance your device innovations while reducing costs and speeding time to market.
Webcasts
Upcoming Webinars: Materials
Designing Medical Devices with Confidence: Using Servo Ultrasonic...
Podcasts: Medical
AI and Machine Learning in Medical Device Cybersecurity
Podcasts: Connectivity
The Growing Impact of Cybersecurity on Patient Safety in Medical Devices
On-Demand Webinars: Medical
Enhancing Security in Connected Medical Devices
Podcasts: Electronics & Computers
The FDA’s Role in Medical Device Cybersecurity
Podcasts: Connectivity
Inside Story
Inside Story: Trends in Packaging and Sterilization
Eurofins Medical Device Testing (MDT) provides a full scope of testing services. In this interview, Eurofins’ experts, Sunny Modi, PhD, Director of Package Testing; and Elizabeth Sydnor, Director of Microbiology; answer common questions on medical device packaging and sterilization.
