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Materials data management in research & development: improving innovation and product liability

Ehrig T., Klepsch L., IMA Materialforschung und Anwendungstechnik GmbH, DE

Challenge Companies produce a huge amount of notes and tables, especially for their research and development processes. A lot of different tools are used to store such information:  Note-taking apps, like Mind-Mappers, One-Note, ... [...]

Bottom-up device simulations: modeling electrical currents on the atomic scale

Blom A., Stokbro K., QuantumWise A/S, DK

As device features approach atomic dimensions, simulations of electrical currents need to be based on a quantum-mechanical description of the system. New phenomena then appear which can be exploited for novel device functionality, but also [...]

A Novel Virtual Button User Interface for Determining the Characteristics of an Impulse Input Based on MEMS Inertial Sensors

Zwart A., Effa D., Nieva P., Lancaster-Larocque S., University of Waterloo, CA

This paper introduces a novel application of MEMS accelerometer in consumer electronics device for a ‘Virtual Button’ Technology. MEMS based accelerometers is designed in order to measure low-g acceleration to sense tapping motion on the [...]