BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF MEMS

Abstract – Micromachining and MEMS technologies can be used to produce complex electrical, mechanical, fluidic, thermal, optical, and magnetic structures, devices, and systems on a scale ranging from organs to subcellular organelles. This miniaturization ability has enabled MEMS to be applied in many areas of biology, medicine, and biomedical engineering – a field generally referred to as BioMEMS. The future looks bright for BioMEMS to realize (1) microsensor arrays that act as an electronic nose or tongue, (2) microfabricated neural systems capable of controlling motor or sensory prosthetic devices, (3) painless microsurgical tools, and (4) complete microfluidic systems for total chemical or genetic analyses.

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