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mstnews is a bi-monthly journal for the Micro and Nano community worldwide. The aim of mstnews is to disseminate information on world-wide developments in micro and nano technologies, focusing particularly on the integration of different technologies in complex, miniaturized systems.
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News from the Editor

Dear Readers,

Maybe you know the ancient German saying
"Nothing is more durable than the change".

Why shouldn’t this apply to mstnews too? mstnews has taken the changing of the decade as starting of a re-positioning and re-organisation process. Because this process is still going on we have to postpone the February issue on "Medical Smart Systems". We hope to be able to relaunch mstnews (respectively its successor) in March or April and will inform you soon about the new magazine.

We hope for your understanding!

With best regards,

Bernhard Wybranski Chief editor

Current Issue

It is done; the autumn 2009 issue has been finished!
You might have been wondering about the discontinuity of the dates of publication of mstnews in the second half of 2009.
Due to organizational and financial reasons, we had to wait until we had gathered a critical mass of topics, articles and paid reports and News Pages. In particular, this was depending on the 3rd Microsystems Congress of the VDE Association and the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in Berlin in the middle of October. Now we provide a “bundled issue” that is exceptionally bigger than usual and includes the three topics

MST R&D; Funding in Germany - Status and Strategies for 2010+
New Optical Technologies for Smart Systems
System Integration

and a lot of News Pages from third parties. The first topic was prepared by VDI/VDE-IT on behalf of the German Ministry for Education and Research. Furthermore we have catched up on the Micro-optics topic, which was scheduled initially for August, and the Large Area and Organic Electronics topic, which was scheduled initially for October. Together with some stragglers from the former Packaging issue, we have subsumed the articles from the latter topic under the headline “System Integration”. The Smart Sensors topic and the offer regarding advertorials for a special price we have postponed to the April 2010 issue. Read more …

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