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MOEMS/MEMS Plenary: Power to the Pathway

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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 25, 2011 — Amit Lal envisions a day when tiny wireless sensor networks will be placed throughout the world in areas that can help save lives, prevent disasters, and even help sustain the environment, with a battery-free power supply that will last 100 years. Lal explained how the work of his group could help make that happen in his MOEMS/MEMS Symposium plenary talk, "Microsystem Pathways to a Greener World," Monday morning at SPIE Photonics West. Lal, an associate professor in the school of electrical and computer engineering at Cornell University, and his group have been working for over six...Read full article

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    Published: January 2011
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    cantilever
    A projecting beam or other structure supported only at one end.
    light
    Electromagnetic radiation detectable by the eye, ranging in wavelength from about 400 to 750 nm. In photonic applications light can be considered to cover the nonvisible portion of the spectrum which includes the ultraviolet and the infrared.
    nano
    An SI prefix meaning one billionth (10-9). Nano can also be used to indicate the study of atoms, molecules and other structures and particles on the nanometer scale. Nano-optics (also referred to as nanophotonics), for example, is the study of how light and light-matter interactions behave on the nanometer scale. See nanophotonics.
    power
    With respect to a lens, the reciprocal of its focal length. The term power, as applied to a telescope or microscope, often is used as an abbreviation for magnifying power.
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    1. A generic term for detector. 2. A complete optical/mechanical/electronic system that contains some form of radiation detector.
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    A thin layer of a substance deposited on an insulating base in a vacuum by a microelectronic process. Thin films are most commonly used for antireflection, achromatic beamsplitters, color filters, narrow passband filters, semitransparent mirrors, heat control filters, high reflectivity mirrors, polarizers and reflection filters.
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