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Microbolometer
A microbolometer is a thermal infrared detector in which absorbed radiation heats a sensing element, changing its resistance; arrays of them form uncooled thermal cameras, typically using vanadium oxide.
Microbump
A microbump is a miniature solder interconnect, typically 10 to 25 micrometers in diameter, used to join stacked dies in 3D integrated circuits built on through-silicon vias.
Microcar
A microcar is a very small, low-powered automobile. The type emerged in postwar Europe with vehicles like the BMW Isetta, and today most EU microcars are approved as quadricycles.
Microcassette
The microcassette, or microcassette tape, is a small analog magnetic tape cassette introduced by Olympus in 1969 for voice recording in dictation and answering machines.
Microcell
A microcell is a cellular base station with a coverage radius of roughly a few hundred meters to two kilometers, used to add capacity in dense urban areas.
Microchannel heat sink
A microchannel heat sink (MCHS) is a liquid cooling device for high-power electronics, with many small channels, typically under 1000 µm across, machined or etched into a chip or block.
Microchannel plate detector
A microchannel plate detector is a vacuum electron multiplier: a thin glass plate of millions of microscopic channels that detects and images photons, electrons, and ions.
Microchip Technology
Microchip Technology is an American semiconductor company headquartered in Chandler, Arizona, founded in 1989, known for its PIC and AVR microcontrollers and its $10.15 billion acquisition of Microsemi in 2018.
Microcode
Microcode, also called microprogramming, is a layer of low-level instructions in a processor's control store that implements machine instructions, coined by Maurice Wilkes in the early 1950s.
Microcomputer
A microcomputer is a complete small computer built around a single-chip microprocessor and used by one person, a 1970s term now largely replaced by "personal computer."
Microcontact printing
Microcontact printing (μCP) is a soft lithography technique introduced by Amit Kumar and George M. Whitesides in 1993, using an elastomeric stamp to print molecular inks onto surfaces.
Microcontroller (μC)
A microcontroller (μC or MCU) is a single-chip integrated circuit combining a processor core, memory, and peripherals to run a dedicated function in an embedded system.
Microcrystalline silicon
Microcrystalline silicon (hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon, μc-Si:H) is a mixed-phase thin-film semiconductor of tiny silicon crystallites in amorphous silicon, used mainly as the absorber in thin-film solar cells.
Microcrystalline wax
Microcrystalline wax (E 905), also known as petroleum wax, is a petroleum-derived wax with a dense, fine-crystal structure that makes it more flexible, adhesive, and crack-resistant than paraffin wax.
Microdata (HTML)
Microdata, one of three HTML5 structured-data syntaxes alongside RDFa and microformats, embeds machine-readable name–value pairs in web pages using attributes like itemscope and itemprop, most often with the schema.org vocabulary.
microdrones (company)
Microdrones is a German manufacturer of surveying drones, founded in 2005 in Siegen and known for the md4 quadcopters and mdLiDAR and mdMapper product lines.
Microencapsulated phase-change materials
Microencapsulated phase-change materials, abbreviated MPCM or MEPCM, are phase-change materials sealed inside tiny polymer or ceramic shells 1 μm to 1 mm wide, letting them store heat safely in buildings, textiles, and solar systems.
Microfactory
A microfactory is a small, modular, highly automated production facility that makes customized products in small quantities, a concept originating in Japan in the 1990s.
Microfiltration
Microfiltration is a pressure-driven membrane separation process that removes suspended particles, bacteria, and protozoan parasites from liquids or gases through porous membranes with pores of 0.1 to 10 µm.
Microfluidic production of double emulsions
Microfluidic production of double emulsions creates droplet-in-droplet, three-phase liquids inside micron-scale channels, one drop at a time, giving uniform size and shell thickness that bulk mixing cannot deliver.
Microfluidic synthesis of lipid nanoparticles
Microfluidic synthesis of lipid nanoparticles is the formation of LNPs by combining lipid-in-ethanol and aqueous streams in micron-scale channels, where laminar-flow mixing controls particle size and encapsulation.
Microfluidics
Microfluidics is the science and technology of controlling fluids in channels tens to hundreds of micrometers wide, integrating analysis steps on a chip for biological, chemical, and medical uses.
Microgrid
A microgrid is a group of interconnected electrical loads and local energy resources that operates as a single controllable entity, running connected to the main grid or islanded from it.
Microhardness testing
Microhardness testing, more precisely microindentation hardness testing, measures hardness on a microscopic scale using Vickers or Knoop diamond indenters under loads from 1 gf to 1 kgf.
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.
Microkernel (μ-kernel)
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.
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.
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.