Gyroscopes based on other operating principles also exist, such as the electronic, microchip-packaged MEMS gyroscope devices found in consumer electronic devices, solid-state ring lasers, fibre optic gyroscopes, and the extremely sensitive quantum gyroscope.

It takes a position between the low-accuracy, low-cost MEMS gyroscope and the higher-accuracy and higher-cost FOG.

Initially handheld AR employed fiduciary markers, and later GPS units and MEMS sensors such as digital compasses and six degrees of freedom accelerometer – gyroscope.

The Sony SIXAXIS PS3 controller uses a single MEMS gyroscope to measure the sixth axis ( yaw ).

The Nokia 5500 Sports Phone uses an embedded 3 axis MEMS inertial sensor to detect the steps a user takes.

The Sony Ericsson W710 and W580 walkman phones use embedded 2 axis MEMS inertial sensors to detect the steps a user takes.

The basic idea is to reduce the amount of wiring needed on-chip ; instead of wiring every cell, the cells are placed closer together and read by current passing through the MEMS probes, acting like wires.

One of the most common uses for MEMS accelerometers is in airbag deployment systems for modern automobiles.

The Nintendo Wii MotionPlus accessory uses multi-axis MEMS gyroscopes provided by InvenSense to augment the motion sensing capabilities of the Wii Remote.

Devices such as the LG Electronics Magic Wand, the Loop and the Scoop use Hillcrest Labs ' Freespace technology, which uses MEMS accelerometers, gyroscopes and other sensors to translate gestures into cursor movement.

Consider two proof masses vibrating in plane ( as in the MEMS gyro ) at frequency.

Inexpensive ( as of 2010, approximately US $ 5 per part in quantity ) vibrating structure gyroscopes manufactured with MEMS technology have become widely available.

Internally, MEMS gyroscopes use lithographically constructed versions of one or more of the mechanisms outlined above ( tuning forks, vibrating wheels, or resonant solids of various designs ).

Sensors have been made out of vibrating wire, vibrating cylinders, quartz, and silicon MEMS.

; 1st Generation: MEMS sensor element mostly based on a silicon structure, sometimes combined with analog amplification on a micro chip ..

; 2nd Generation: MEMS sensor element combined with analog amplification and analog-to-digital converter on one micro chip.

Already such small devices, known as Microelectromechanical systems ( MEMS ), are used in automobiles to tell airbags when to deploy, in digital projectors to create sharper images and in inkjet printers to create nozzles for high definition printing.

Modern accelerometers are often small micro electro-mechanical systems ( MEMS ), and are indeed the simplest MEMS devices possible, consisting of little more than a cantilever beam with a proof mass ( also known as seismic mass ).

Flip chip, also known as controlled collapse chip connection or its acronym, C4, is a method for interconnecting semiconductor devices, such as IC chips and microelectromechanical systems ( MEMS ), to external circuitry with solder bumps that have been deposited onto the chip pads.

Horten is known as the country's MEMS capital, and is also a center of electronics and naval research and industry.

The use of microelectromechanical systems ( MEMS ) in optical applications, which is known as optical MEMS or micro-opto-electro-mechanical structures ( MOEMS ), has enabled the possibility to combine the mechanical, electrical and optical components in very small scale.

Priestfield Stadium ( popularly known simply as Priestfield and officially known from 2007 to 2010 as KRBS Priestfield Stadium and from 2011 as MEMS Priestfield Stadium for sponsorship purposes ) is a football stadium in Gillingham, Kent.

* Dust: miniaturized devices can be without visual output displays, e. g., Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems ( MEMS ), ranging from nanometres through micrometers to millimetres.

The term MEMS, for Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, was coined in the 1980s to describe new, sophisticated mechanical systems on a chip, such as micro electric motors, resonators, gears, and so on.

In Europe, the term MST for Micro System Technology is preferred, and in Japan MEMS are simply referred to as " micromachines ".

* Dust: miniaturised devices without direct HCI interfaces, e. g., Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems ( MEMS ), ranging from nanometres through micrometers to millimetres.

Lab-on-a-chip devices are a subset of MEMS devices and often indicated by " Micro Total Analysis Systems " ( µTAS ) as well.

Due to further development of these usually CMOS-compatibility limited processes, a tool box became available to create micrometre or sub-micrometre sized mechanical structures in silicon wafers as well: the Micro Electro Mechanical Systems ( MEMS ) era ( also indicated with Micro System Technology-MST ) had started.

BCB-based polymer dielectrics may be spun on or applied to various substrates for use in Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems ( MEMS ) and microelectronics processing.

* Journal of Micro / Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS ( JM3 ), is published quarterly and contains peer-reviewed papers on technologies necessary to address the needs of the electronics, micro-opto-electro-mechanical systems, and photonics industries.

Other payloads on STS-93 included the Midcourse Space Experiment ( MSX ), the Shuttle Ionospheric Modification with Pulsed Local Exhaust ( SIMPLEX ), the Southwest Ultraviolet Imaging System ( SWUIS ), the Gelation of Sols: Applied Microgravity Research ( GOSAMR ) experiment, the Space Tissue Loss – B ( STL-B ) experiment, a Light Weight Flexible Solar Array Hinge ( LFSAH ), the Cell Culture Module ( CCM ), the Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment – II ( SAREX – II ), EarthKAM, Plant Growth Investigations in Microgravity ( PGIM ), the Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus ( CGBA ), the Micro-Electrical Mechanical System ( MEMS ), and the Biological Research in Canisters ( BRIC ).

The Micro-Electrical Mechanical System ( MEMS ) payload examines the performance, under launch, microgravity, and reentry conditions of a suite of MEMS devices.

Also carried aboard STS-113 was the Micro-Electromechanical System ( MEMS ) based Pico Satellite Inspector.

ESIEE launched Master of Science programs in nano-science MEMS, Electronic Engineering and System on Chip, programs to which international students and 4rth and 5th year ESIEE students may participate.

* The Microsystems Technology Office ( MTO ) mission focuses on the heterogeneous microchip-scale integration of electronics, photonics, and microelectromechanical systems ( MEMS ).

:* Microtechnology – study of materials and processes and their interaction, allowing microfabrication of structures of micrometric dimensions, such as Microelectromechanical systems ( MEMS ).

MEMS are also referred to as micromachines ( in Japan ), or micro systems technology – MST ( in Europe ).

MEMS are made up of components between 1 to 100 micrometres in size ( i. e. 0. 001 to 0. 1 mm ), and MEMS devices generally range in size from 20 micrometres ( 20 millionths of a metre ) to a millimetre ( i. e. 0. 02 to 1. 0 mm ).

* Clay: ensembles of MEMS can be formed into arbitrary three dimensional shapes as artefacts resembling many different kinds of physical object ( see also Tangible interface ).

RF usually refers to electrical rather than mechanical oscillations, although mechanical RF systems do exist ( see mechanical filter and RF MEMS ).

Today, the term MEMS in practice is used to refer to any microscopic device with a mechanical function, which can be fabricated in a batch process ( for example, an array of microscopic gears fabricated on a microchip would be considered a MEMS device but a tiny laser-machined stent or watch component would not ).

Cantilevered beams are the most ubiquitous structures in the field of microelectromechanical systems ( MEMS ).

Such fluids may find applications in microfluidic devices and microelectromechanical systems ( MEMS ).

The prototype appears ungainly, but the inventor proposes that the system may be useful in microscopic-sized machines ( MEMS ).

Teledyne DALSA ( formerly DALSA Corporation ) is a Canadian company specializing in the design and manufacture of specialized electronic imaging components ( image sensors, cameras, frame grabbers, imaging software ) as well as specialized semiconductor fabrication ( MEMS, high voltage ASICs ).

Bulk micromachining is a process used to produce micromachinery or microelectromechanical systems ( MEMS ).

New technologies result in denser packing of minuscule surface features such as transistors and micro-electro-mechanical systems ( MEMS ).

Today, the technologies created by SEMI members are applicable to a number of related industries, such as flat panel display and micro-electromechanical systems ( MEMS ).