All articles starting with M

Microinverter

A microinverter is a small power inverter attached to one photovoltaic solar module, converting its DC output to AC so no central string inverter is needed.

A microkernel (μ-kernel) is an operating-system kernel that keeps only minimal mechanisms, such as IPC and scheduling, in privileged mode, running drivers, file systems, and other services in user space.

Microkinetic analysis

Microkinetic analysis is a modeling method in catalysis that describes a reaction as a network of elementary steps, predicting rates, mechanisms, surface coverages, and guiding catalyst design.

Microkinetic modeling

Microkinetic modeling is a chemical kinetics method that describes a catalytic reaction as an explicit network of elementary steps with rate constants, predicting turnover frequencies, surface coverages, and selectivities.

MicroLED

MicroLED (µLED) is a display technology in which each pixel is a microscopic inorganic LED, offering higher brightness and efficiency than LCD and OLED but remaining hard to mass-produce.

Microlight circumnavigation and record flights

Microlight circumnavigation is a flight around the world in a microlight or ultralight aircraft, first achieved by Brian Milton in 1998 in 120 days, with solo age records later set by Zara and Mack Rutherford.

Oct 20, 2026

Microlissencephaly

Microlissencephaly (MLIS), increasingly called microcephaly with lissencephaly, is a rare, genetically heterogeneous disorder combining lissencephaly with severe congenital microcephaly, presenting in newborns with seizures, spasticity, and severe developmental delay.

Microlith

A microlith is a tiny, often geometric stone tool made from a bladelet, mounted in composite tools and weapons during late Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic times.

Microlithography

Microlithography is a family of fabrication techniques that use light to pattern microscopic features onto substrates, the core patterning step in semiconductor manufacturing, spanning DUV and EUV systems.

Micromachined ultrasonic transducer

A micromachined ultrasonic transducer (MUT) is an ultrasonic transducer built with MEMS fabrication, in which a suspended micrometer-scale membrane generates and receives ultrasound; types include the capacitive CMUT and piezoelectric PMUT.

Micromagnetic simulation

Micromagnetic simulation is a numerical method that solves the Landau–Lifshitz–Gilbert equation to compute how magnetization evolves in ferromagnetic materials, resolving features such as domain walls and vortices.

Micromagnetics

Micromagnetics is a continuum theory of ferromagnetic materials that treats atomic spins as a continuous magnetization field, valid on scales from about 1 nm to 1 µm.

Micromanagement

Micromanagement is a management style perceived as excessive, sustained, or unnecessary controlling, close monitoring, or detail focus, linked to lower job satisfaction, higher stress, and turnover.

Micromanipulation

Micromanipulation is a laboratory technique using fine glass microtools on remotely controlled arms under a microscope to handle individual cells and embryos, central to assisted reproduction, cloning, and single-cell biology.

Micromax Informatics

Micromax Informatics, also known as Micromax Mobile, is an Indian consumer electronics company founded in 2000 that became India's largest homegrown mobile phone maker before losing ground to Chinese brands.

Micromechanical Flying Insect

The Micromechanical Flying Insect (MFI) is a flapping-wing microrobot begun at UC Berkeley in 1998 under Ronald Fearing, modeled on the blowfly and targeting a 25 mm wingspan.

MicrOmega

MicrOmega is a visible and near-infrared hyperspectral microscope, developed at the Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale in France, that analyzes powdered planetary samples aboard the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover.

Micromegas (detector)

Micromegas (MICRO-MEsh GAseous Structure) is a micro-pattern gaseous particle detector invented in 1995 by Ioannis Giomataris and collaborators at Saclay, offering fine spatial resolution and high rate capability.

Oct 21, 2026

Micromesistius poutassou

Micromesistius poutassou, blue whiting (bacaladilla, merlan bleu), a small mesopelagic gadid of the Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean; dense-schooling plankton feeder supporting a major pelagic fishery with 2026 ICES advice of 851,344 tonnes.

Micrometre

The micrometre (µm), formerly the micron, is an SI unit of length equal to one millionth of a meter, the natural unit for cells, airborne particles, and light wavelengths.

Micromobility

Micromobility is the use of small, lightweight, low-speed vehicles, either nonelectric or electric, including bicycles, scooters, mopeds, and skateboards, for short trips, including shared rental fleets.

Micromolding

Micromolding is a microfabrication technique that replicates features from 1 to 1,000 μm into polymers against a precision mold, achieving tolerances of 0.01–5 μm for microfluidic and microelectromechanical applications.

Oct 21, 2026

Micromonospora

Micromonospora, a genus of high G+C Gram-positive actinobacteria (family Micromonosporaceae) proposed by Ørskov in 1923; single-spored soil and endophytic bacteria, source of gentamicin and hundreds of bioactive secondary metabolites.

Micromorph tandem solar cell

A micromorph tandem solar cell is a thin-film silicon photovoltaic device stacking an amorphous silicon top cell over a microcrystalline silicon bottom cell, introduced in Switzerland in 1994.

Micromort

A micromort is a unit of risk equal to a one-in-a-million chance of death, coined by Stanford decision analyst Ronald A. Howard in 1980 for comparing risky activities.

Micromouse

Micromouse is a robotics competition, hosted by the IEEE and others, in which fully autonomous robots explore an unknown 16 × 16 maze and race to its center.

Micron (unit)

The micron is a non-SI name for the micrometre, a unit of length equal to one millionth of a meter, retired by the SI in 1967 but still widely used in filtration and textiles.

Micron HBM

Micron HBM is high-bandwidth memory, a stack of DRAM dies connected vertically with through-silicon vias and made by Micron Technology, whose HBM4 entered volume production for NVIDIA's Vera Rubin platform in 2026.

Micron Technology

Micron Technology is an American semiconductor company headquartered in Boise, Idaho, founded in 1978, that makes memory and storage products including DRAM and NAND flash.