Bio-integrated electronics

Author

Nanshu Lu ; Pulin Wang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Aerosp. Eng. & Eng. Mech., Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

28-30 May 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Strategies for bio-integrated electronics must overcome challenges associated with the mismatch between the hard, planar surfaces of brittle semiconductor wafers and the soft, curvilinear tissues of timely dynamic biological systems. This paper discusses the successful structural design, fabrication and bio-integration of tissue-like electronics that can intimately conform to biological tissues and deform with the tissues in a mechanically invisible manner. Examples including epidermal electronics, instrumented balloon catheters, and smart finger tubes will be discussed to manifest our multidisciplinary research at the boundary of electronics, mechanics, materials, and biomedicine.

Keywords

biomedical electronics; biomedical materials; flexible electronics; biointegrated electronics; brittle semiconductor wafer; curvilinear tissue; epidermal electronics; hard-planar surface mismatch; instrumented balloon catheter; smart finger tube; structural design; tissue-like electronics; Epidermis; In vivo; Silicon; Substrates; Temperature sensors; flexible electronics; materials processing; mechanics; sensing; stimulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

IC Design & Technology (ICICDT), 2014 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Austin, TX

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICICDT.2014.6838615

Filename

6838615