Title :
Bio-integrated electronics
Author :
Nanshu Lu ; Pulin Wang
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Aerosp. Eng. & Eng. Mech., Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
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;
Conference_Titel :
IC Design & Technology (ICICDT), 2014 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Austin, TX
DOI :
10.1109/ICICDT.2014.6838615
