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At a recent seminar sponsored by the IEEE SFBA Nanotechnology Council (March 16th, 2010), Rashmi Rao, a Senior R&D Engineer at Qualcomm MEMS Technologies, gave a well-received talk titled, “From Butterfly Wings to Energy Efficient Displays”. The industry's first mobile display based on interferometric modulation (or IMOD: a reflective display technology that uses MEMS structures), Qualcomms’s displays offer low power consumption and superb viewing quality in a variety of ambient lighting conditions (including even in bright sunlight). These displays have been hailed as a game changer that is poised to revolutionize mobile devices and e-readers.
As there are increasingly more MEMS, sensors and energy harvesting technologies on the market, it is important to understand newly available communications technologies to transmit data wirelessly. We recently spoke with Cees Links, founder and CEO of GreenPeak Technologies. His company is based in the Netherlands and raised $19 million in October 2009 in a venture capital funding round led by Robert Bosch Venture Capital and supported by DFJ Esprit, Motorola Ventures and Allegro Investment Fund.
A resonator is a device that is indispensable in modern electronics products such as computers, digital appliances and telecommunications devices. Currently, resonators that use quartz crystals are mainly used due to their light weight as well as highly precise and stable frequency properties. Research for new silicon based resonators shows that further miniaturization and reduction in cost may be possible through the use of MEMS processes to fabricate with silicon material.
"We needed a world class technology and foundry partner who had proven before that it could tackle hard problems and bring highly complex MEMS devices into production. We evaluated foundries around the world and chose IMT," said Larry Schwerin, CEO of Capella.
