Biomedical Microdevices
The Biomedical Microdevices discipline seeks to leverage phenomena at the micro- and nanoscale to solve problems in medicine and biology. This area includes lab-on-a-chip and other micro-scale technologies often made using microfabrication techniques such as micromachining, photolithography, replica molding, embossing, and laser ablation. Miniaturization of bioanalytical techniques enables a reduction of equipment size, fast analysis and short reaction times, parallel operations for multiple analyses, and the possibility of portable analytical devices and sensors.