Ink-Jet Microdispensing: A Tool for Fabrication and Packaging of BioMEMS Devices

摘要

In the last decade, ink-jet has come to be viewed as aprecision microdispensing tool, in addition to its huge success incolor printing. Today, this tool is being used in a wide range ofapplications, including electrical & optical interconnects, sensors,medical diagnostics, drug delivery, MEMS packaging, andnanostructure materials deposition. Ink-jet microdispensing isdata-driven, non-contact, and is capable of precise deposition ofpicoliter volumes at high rates, even onto non planar surfaces.Being data-driven, ink-jet dispensing is highly flexible and can bereadily automated into manufacturing lines. This paper willillustrate a few of the applications of ink-jet technology that areeither BioMEMS packaging applications, or specific BiomedicalDevice manufacturing applications.