Design considerations and recent advances in CMOS-based microsystems for point-of-care clinical diagnostics

The emerging field of point-of-care clinical diagnostics based on lab-on-a-chip microsystems is underway. CMOS technology, which is responsible for present revolution in computing and communications by pushing ever-smaller semiconductor devices, has recently been used for the implementation of low-power and small-size microsystems for point-of-care diagnostics. The design considerations, recent advances and future directions of these CMOS-based microsystems are discussed in this paper