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Memphis Pyramid
The Memphis Pyramid, also known as the Pyramid Arena, is a 321-foot stainless steel pyramid in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, reopened in 2015 as a Bass Pro Shops megastore.
Memphis Redbirds
Memphis Redbirds, Triple-A International League baseball team in Memphis, Tennessee; St. Louis Cardinals affiliate since 1998, plays at AutoZone Park (opened 2000), league champions 2000, 2009, 2017, 2018.
Memphis Showboats
Memphis Showboats, USFL spring football team (1984-85) coached by Pepper Rodgers, owned by William Dunavant and Logan Young, starring Reggie White; revived in the 2023 USFL and 2024-25 UFL, dropped for 2026.
Memphis Southmen
Memphis Southmen (Memphis Grizzlies), WFL pro football team 1974-1975, formerly the Toronto Northmen; signed Csonka, Kiick, and Warfield; went 17-3 in 1974; folded with the WFL in October 1975.
Memphis Tigers football
Memphis Tigers football, University of Memphis FBS team in the American Athletic Conference, playing at Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium since 1965; first season 1912, 2019 AAC title and Cotton Bowl, 17 bowl games.
Memphis Tigers men's basketball
Memphis Tigers men's basketball: University of Memphis NCAA Division I program (NCAA member since 1952). Over 1,500 wins, 1973 and 2008 NCAA runners-up, 2002 NIT champions, coached by Penny Hardaway, home FedExForum.
Memphis, Egypt
Memphis (Men-nefer, Manf), ancient Egypt's first capital near Mit Rahina south of Cairo, founded by Menes c. 3100 BC, seat of the Old Kingdom, center of the Ptah cult, and core of the Giza-to-Dahshur pyramid necropolis inscribed by UNESCO in 1979.
Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis is a city in southwest Tennessee on the Mississippi River, the largest in Tennessee, known as the home of the blues and birthplace of rock 'n' roll.
Mempo Giardinelli
Mempo Giardinelli (born 1947) is an Argentine novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and journalist from Resistencia, Chaco, exiled in Mexico in 1976 to 1984 during the military dictatorship.
Memrise
Memrise is a language learning platform founded in London in 2010 by Ed Cooke, Ben Whately, and Greg Detre, teaching vocabulary through spaced repetition and native-speaker videos.
Memristive crossbar arrays
Memristive crossbar arrays are two-terminal memory architectures with a memristor at every crossing of row and column wires, used for nonvolatile memory, logic, and neuromorphic computing.
Memristor
A memristor, or memory resistor, is a passive circuit element whose resistance remembers the history of charge passed through it, proposed by Leon Chua in 1971.
MEMS
MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems) are micrometer-sized mechanical devices, such as accelerometers, gyroscopes, and microphones, made with integrated-circuit fabrication techniques and widely used in smartphones, automobiles, and digital projectors.
MEMS accelerometer
A MEMS accelerometer is a microelectromechanical sensor that measures acceleration with a suspended microscopic proof mass, first built in 1979 and used in airbags, phones, and inertial navigation.
MEMS atomic clock
A MEMS atomic clock, usually called a chip-scale atomic clock (CSAC), is a tiny, low-power atomic clock built with microelectromechanical systems for battery-powered portable equipment.
MEMS deformable mirror
A MEMS deformable mirror is a reflective optical device, built with microelectromechanical systems fabrication, whose surface is deformed electrostatically to correct wavefront distortions in adaptive optics systems.
MEMS energy harvester
A MEMS energy harvester is a microelectromechanical device that converts ambient mechanical vibration into microwatt-to-milliwatt electrical power, intended to replace batteries in wireless sensor nodes and implantable biomedical devices.
MEMS flow sensor
A MEMS flow sensor is a flow-measuring device built on a silicon chip using microelectromechanical systems, dominated by thermal sensing and shipping over 25 million dies yearly.
MEMS gas sensor
A MEMS gas sensor is a chemical gas sensor whose sensing layer sits on a micromachined microhotplate, usually metal oxide, dominating miniaturized gas sensing for IoT applications.
MEMS gyroscope
A MEMS gyroscope is a microscopic silicon angular-rate sensor that detects rotation via the Coriolis effect in a vibrating structure, first described in 1988 and used in camera stabilization, aerospace, and wearables.
MEMS inertial measurement unit
A MEMS inertial measurement unit (MEMS IMU) is a silicon chip package of gyroscopes and accelerometers that measures rotation and acceleration for navigation, stabilization, and motion sensing in smartphones and wearables.
MEMS microgripper
A MEMS microgripper is a microelectromechanical end effector, fabricated by semiconductor micromachining, whose jaws grasp, transport, and release objects from about 10 to 100 μm, including biological cells.
MEMS microphone
A MEMS microphone is a miniature acoustic sensor built with micro-electro-mechanical systems fabrication, in which a micromachined diaphragm converts sound pressure into an electrical signal.
MEMS micropump
A MEMS micropump is a microscale pumping device fabricated with microelectromechanical systems technology that moves fluids precisely at low power, typically for drug delivery, lab-on-a-chip analysis, and microelectronic cooling.
MEMS microrelay
A MEMS microrelay is a micromechanical switch made with microelectromechanical systems techniques that opens or closes metal contacts, performing a conventional relay's function at chip scale with low power.
MEMS microvalve
A MEMS microvalve is a miniature valve fabricated with microelectromechanical systems techniques on silicon or polymers, controlling flow in microfluidic systems used in biomedicine and chemistry.
MEMS optical switch
A MEMS optical switch is a device that redirects light between input and output fibers using microscopic tilting silicon mirrors, without converting the signal to electricity, switching on millisecond timescales.
MEMS oscillator
A MEMS oscillator is a timing device that generates a clock signal from a micromachined silicon resonator, an alternative to quartz crystal oscillators, shipping commercially since 2006.
MEMS pressure sensor
A MEMS pressure sensor is a microelectromechanical device that measures pressure through the deflection of a thin silicon diaphragm, using piezoresistive, capacitive, or resonant transduction.
MEMS resonator
A MEMS resonator is a microelectromechanical vibrating element, typically micromachined from silicon, that forms a batch-fabricated timing device rivalling quartz oscillators in size, cost, and CMOS compatibility.