MEMS have already found significant market niches in the automotive and aircraft industries, starting with pressure sensing applications and as airbag-deployment accelerometers. MEMS technology is currently enjoying a moment of formidable expansion in synergy with the health sciences, giving rise to the notion of MEMS for biomedical applications - BioMEMS . Areas of research include surgical instruments, artificial organs, diagnostic tools, and drug delivery systems. This laboratory is equipped with extensive hardware and software tools for the design, packaging, and characterization of biomedical microsystems. To accomodate the unique testing requirements of BioMEMS devices, a specially instrumented probe station is available for microactuator characterization, microsensor testing and calibration, and testing of microfluidic devices.
Software packages are available for the layout and performance modeling of BioMEMS device designs.
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