MEMS inertial-sensors technology has been driven by automotive safety systems; as such, the technology has been applied to several high-volume applications. The large volumes associated with ...

Hitachi Ltd. today announced the development of a high-sensitivity low-power MEMS accelerometer that can detect extremely weak ground and building vibrations by combining sophisticated MEMS technology ...

The demand for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) resilient to harsh environments is growing. Silicon-based MEMS struggle under extreme conditions, limited by their performance at elevated ...

This file type includes high-resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Ed Spence, Marketing Manager, Analog Devices Inc. A growing number of condition-monitoring products now use a ...

There’s a good chance that you use a MEMS accelerometer every single day. It’s the small chip that let your smart phone automatically adjust its screen orientation. They’re great chips, and since they ...

The global MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) accelerometer and gyroscope market is experiencing rapid expansion, driven by the increasing demand for precise motion-sensing technologies across ...

Most of the latest 3-axis digital-MEMS accelerometers on the market can generate interrupts for a number of applications. Some of the applications—such as screen rotation, wakeup, freefall, single ...

STMicroelectronics N.V. STM is strengthening its position in the fast-growing sensor market through the acquisition of NXP's ...

Sales of acceleration and yaw sensors only grew 7% to $2.54bn in 2012 as prices turned down after the 27% growth in 2011, but are expected to grow 12% to $2.84bn in 2013, says IC Insights.

Fig 1. Wafer-level BGA packaging and a patented heated-gas thermal acceleration measurement method combine to produce MEMSIC’s MXC626Xc two-axis digital accelerometer, which is small enough to be ...