Science

DNA Synthesis Companies

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A number of new DNA synthesis startups have launched in the past few years. This post is a brief listing of the companies in the field (of which I’m aware), in no particular order. Some of these companies make short oligos on arrays, others make longer length genes, and some do both. For detailed information […]

MEMS

Tutorial: 3d Visualization for MEMS

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Several months ago I was asked to comment on how I created the 3D visualizations for several MEMS designs. What follows is a step by step description of the process used. Tools Needed: gds2pov (http://atchoo.org/gds2pov/) POV-Ray (http://www.povray.org/) KLayout (optional) (http://www.klayout.de) LayoutEditor (optional) (http://layout.sourceforge.net) First, begin by exporting your model in GDSII format. I have found […]