News From The Micro And Nano Worlds

March 31, 2003

MEMS ON THE MOVE Lightconnect introduced a MEMS-based integrated dynamic-gain equalizer/optical channel monitor subsystem at last week's Optical Fiber Conference (OFC) in Atlanta, Ga. Go to...

Roger Allan

MEMS ON THE MOVE Lightconnect introduced a MEMS-based integrated dynamic-gain equalizer/optical channel monitor subsystem at last week's Optical Fiber Conference (OFC) in Atlanta, Ga. Go to www.lightconnect.com.NEW NANOTECH If you're working in the nanoworld and need precision test and measurement equipment, take a look at Keithley Instruments. The company has published literature, technical applications, and white papers on measurements for nanotubes, nanotube-based field-emitter displays (FEDs), nanowires and nanofibers, and nano-opto components. Visit www.keithley.com.

The nanoelectronics field also recently got a boost from the NanoBusiness Alliance, which is throwing its full support behind proposed government legislation to provide $2.1 billion over three years for nanotechnology R&D. The proposal, H.R. 766, was filed the week of Feb. 10, 2003 by Sherwood Boehlert, chairman of the U.S. House Science Committee. For more, check out www.nanobusiness.org.

About the Author

Roger Allan

Roger Allan is an electronics journalism veteran, and served as Electronic Design's Executive Editor for 15 of those years. He has covered just about every technology beat from semiconductors, components, packaging and power devices, to communications, test and measurement, automotive electronics, robotics, medical electronics, military electronics, robotics, and industrial electronics. His specialties include MEMS and nanoelectronics technologies. He is a contributor to the McGraw Hill Annual Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. He is also a Life Senior Member of the IEEE and holds a BSEE from New York University's School of Engineering and Science. Roger has worked for major electronics magazines besides Electronic Design, including the IEEE Spectrum, Electronics, EDN, Electronic Products, and the British New Scientist. He also has working experience in the electronics industry as a design engineer in filters, power supplies and control systems.

After his retirement from Electronic Design Magazine, He has been extensively contributing articles for Penton’s Electronic Design, Power Electronics Technology, Energy Efficiency and Technology (EE&T) and Microwaves RF Magazine, covering all of the aforementioned electronics segments as well as energy efficiency, harvesting and related technologies. He has also contributed articles to other electronics technology magazines worldwide.

He is a “jack of all trades and a master in leading-edge technologies” like MEMS, nanolectronics, autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence, military electronics, biometrics, implantable medical devices, and energy harvesting and related technologies.