This Summer School will explore the emerging technologies in this field with theoretical and practical sessions by taking direction from the European Integ-Micro Project, an ambitious initiative that has been able to develop five innovative platforms that redesign the state of the art in the industry.

The sessions will be …

POLYBRIGHT is an FP7 Project on Extending the Process Limits of Laser Polymer Welding with High-Brilliance Beam Sources.

Since October 2009, 18 partners from 9 countries have been working together in POLYBRIGHT with the aim of developing high power, high brilliance lasers with new wavelengths between 1500 and 1900 nm …

In March 2010 we informed you about the launch of the PolyBright project.

After almost two years their first Newsletter is published and early results can be viewed on the project webpages.

COMPOLIGHT = "Rapid manufacturing of lightweight metal components:"

4M Association members Sitex45 and TNO are partners in the above FP7 project which aims to develop processes and methods which improve the design and manufacturing of three types of lightweight metal components:

• Parts with interior canals,
• Parts with cavities,
• Porous parts.

If …

Venue

Bucharest World Trade Centre

The MEMSCON FP7 project is organising a workshop entitled Structural monitoring and status dependent maintenance and repair of constructed facilities which takes place in Bucharest in conjunction with the Bucharest International Technical Fair.

Integ-Micro: New production technologies of complex 3D micro-devices through multi-process integration of ultra precision engineering techniques.

Integ-Micro is a research project funded under the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission. The four-year project was launched in October 2008 with the objective of developing new high precision micro-manufacturing technologies. The …

Two former partners of 4M (Fraunhofer IZM, FEMTO-ST) have joined forces to develop a microfluidic platform for multiple samples with multiple analytes to run diagnostic analysis.

The project is funded by ANR and BMBF under the French-German Carnot-Fraunhofer industry-oriented research Programme.

The market for microfluidic diagnostic devices is expected to …

CONVERGING TECHNOLOGIES for micro systems manufacturing What does COTECH, converging technologies, mean?

• Process technologies enabling the processing of multi-material and/or multi-form based devices.
• Solutions for the hybridisation of complementary replication technologies
• Combinations of different processes for master production needed for the replication process.

With a focus on …

EUMINAfab is a new Research Infrastructure for emerging multimaterial micro and nano technologies. One of the EC's new I3 (Integrated Infrastructures Initiatives), EUMINAfab seeks to ensure that European researchers have access to high-end instruments, so they can process and characterise a multitude of functional materials as well as …

MULTILAYER is focused on the mass-production of micro devices by using several different layers which are individually structured and treated and then ultimately assembled.

This project, supported by the EC as a large-scale integrated project, brings together the facilities and experience of 19 partners from 7 European countries. The main …

A workshop on PRINTING TECHNOLOGIES
Recent developments in printing processes such as inkjet printing and screen printing: application to microelectronic and ceramic.

The workshop will include oral presentations. There will be discussion time after each lecture and a concluding round table. All contributions will be presented on internet at http …

This first EUMINAfab winter school at Minatec, Grenoble is aimed at Ph.D students, post-docs and engineers involved in micro and nanotechnologies and who wish to acquire a global and general overview of some of the most widespread nanocharacterisation techniques, such as SEM, TEM and XPS.

Some specialized complementary techniques …