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APPLICATIONS: Integrating MEMS and Fiber Optic Sensors.
March 1, 2000... Standard MEMS, Inc. (3 New England Executive Park, Burlington, MA 01803; Tel: 781/270-0900, Fax: 781/270-5015) said it has acquired Blue Road Research, Inc. (Fairview, OR), the leading design company of fiber optic sensors for industrial, telecommunications, and military applications. The...

MEMS Headed for Space.
March 1, 2000... Sandia National Laboratory (P.O. Box 5800, Albuquerque, NM 87185) researchers are developing micromirrors that may eventually be part of the Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST), the successor to the Hubble telescope. In contrast to the Hubble, the NGST will be very sensitive to infrared...

Tiny Satellites Have MEMS Switches.
March 1, 2000... Engineers from the Aerospace Corp. (2350 El Segundo Blvd., El Segundo, CA 90245; Tel: 310/336-5000, Fax: 31-/336-7055) have established two-way communications with the smallest satellites ever released into orbit. The two picosatellites measure 4 in. by 3 in. by 1 in., and weigh less than...

Multiple DSPs on-a-Chip.
March 1, 2000... Researchers at Lucent Technologies (Mountain Ave., Murray Hill, NJ; Tel: 908/582-7474) have developed a new approach to building the signal processing "engines" that will be needed in future performance-hungry communications networks. The Bell Labs approach, which is called Daytona, allows...

Nanogen Patent May Assist MEMS Devices.
March 1, 2000... Nanogen, Inc. (10398 Pacific Center Ct., San Diego, CA 92121; Tel: 858/410-4600, Fax: 858/410-4848) said it had been awarded two U.S. patents relating to high- resolution electrophoretic separation and electronic stringency control for molecular biological analysis and diagnostics. U.S....