Microphones
Silicon MEMs microphones in 20% of mobile phones in 2006, says The Information Network
Submitted by nestorb on Tue, 2007-05-08 23:37. Nearly 90% of shipments in 2006 were for cell phones with the remaining nearly 10% in consumer applications such as digital cameras, MP3 players, and PDAs. In 2008 a small percentage of silicon microphones will be going into headsets and hearing aids, according to TIN.
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Akustica's Digital Microphone Wins Innovation Award From EDN Magazine
Submitted by nestorb on Wed, 2007-05-02 12:36. Akustica's digital microphone offers far-reaching benefits to PC and other consumer electronics manufacturers who typically are looking for fast time-to-market, a simple manufacturing process, and the smallest components for resource-constrained devices. At less than 4mm x 4mm, the Akustica microphone occupies only a tiny footprint on a portable device...
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MEMS Tech targets main board
Submitted by nestorb on Thu, 2007-03-29 18:32. The company had just sealed a contract with a US-based semiconductor-related group to supply silicon microphones. The contract will bring in up to US$40mil revenue to MEMS Tech.
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MEMS Growing In Consumer Electronics
Submitted by nestorb on Tue, 2007-03-27 18:32. MEMS will expand to a broad array of consumer applications including game consoles, portable consumer electronics devices (such as digital camcorders), and GPS devices. Pressure sensors have the greatest potential in consumer electronics in the short-term, followed by microphones and displays.
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New ½ in. Preamplifier with Gain, Filtering and TEDS for Automotive and Aerospace Noise Source Identification and In-Cabin Te
Submitted by nestorb on Fri, 2007-03-02 18:23. Model 426A11 preamplifier includes both A-weight and selectable "High Pass" filter, for automotive or aerospace cabin testing requirements. The "A-weight" filter attenuates signals less responsive to the human ear, normally below 1 kHz and above 4 kHz. This filter represents how the human ear perceives that sound...
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MEMS microphones improve voice quality for mobile electronic devices
Submitted by nestorb on Wed, 2006-11-01 20:51. MEMS microphones can be precisely aimed at the voice source, and they filter out unwanted background noise - which is ideal for those who use PDAs with speech recognition, notebooks with IP-telephony, or digital cameras with audio recording capabilities.
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Huygens probe lands on Titan with Vaisala Barocap
Submitted by nestorb on Sat, 2006-09-30 08:22. The Huygens Atmosphere Structure Instrument (HASI) comprises sensors for measuring the physical and electrical properties of the atmosphere and an on-board microphone to send back sounds from Titan
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Pressure Sensitive Clothing
Submitted by nestorb on Thu, 2006-09-28 22:22. A team of Austrian physicists has recently developed ultra-thin pressure sensors that can also be processed into sensitive textiles. The breakthrough came with the arrival of technology for building up a sufficiently large electrical field in polymer foams...
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MEMS Trends Make Themselves Heard on the Market
Submitted by nestorb on Tue, 2006-09-19 22:20. MEMS microphones improve voice quality for mobile electronic devices.
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Otologics' Fully Implantable Hearing Device
Submitted by nestorb on Sat, 2006-09-16 18:09. A capsule containing a microphone and other electronics is implanted beneath the skin behind the ear. Sound is picked up by the microphone, processed and sent to a transducer in the middle ear. The transducer then causes the middle ear bones to move...
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