Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A machine or mechanism with parts smaller than a millimeter, as one fabricated using MEMS technology.
- transitive verb To machine or manufacture (MEMS components, microchips, or other parts) on the scale of less than one millimeter with a high degree of precision.
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- noun Any
machine or similardevice having a dimension of the order of amicrometre ; used especially ofintegrated circuits
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Examples
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“The brain is the ultimate micromachine,” (researcher David Adler) insists.
Boing Boing 2008
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The group built a hybrid micromachine that is powered by gliding bacteria which travels on an inorganic silicon track and pushes a silicon dioxide rotor.
Incredible Motor Powered By Living Bacteria | Impact Lab 2006
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Any bigger, and maybe you have to call it a micromachine, right?
Running Out of Room at the Bottom James Killus 2007
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Any bigger, and maybe you have to call it a micromachine, right?
Archive 2007-02-01 James Killus 2007
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Movies of a micromachine pinball system, from the Solid State Electronics group at the Chalmers University Of Technology in Sweden.
Foxy lady bugshaw 2003
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The NRL team developed novel ways to laser-micromachine hole-arrays in a variety of semiconductors, including silicon (Si), Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) and Indium Phosphide (InP).
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The NRL team developed novel ways to laser-micromachine hole-arrays in a variety of semiconductors, including silicon (Si), Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) and Indium Phosphide (InP).
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Yeah, we really don't know of any competitor in this market, the issue there is, but this is a totally new technology depends on us from a laser micromachining point of view and we are the only ones to have that capability but also depends on adoption of special we should be materials that are laser activated as the micromachine this organic layers and which material succeeds and basically between the desire to shrink the HDIs between the materials, the laser system and the development of the process this thing is going to become we hope a significant business in the years to come.
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