Wearable/Biomedical Devices
Novel electronic and photonic structures for sensing and drug delivery.
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Etching of silicon glass quartz and polymers
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Advanced materials such as Graphene, Nanowires, 2D materials
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Etch and deposition processes for Membranes and Cantilever-based devices for applications such as DNA sequencing
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These applications encompass DNA sequencing, micro- and nanoparticle sorting, assembly, and manipulation of proteins, enzymes, and viruses. The NanoFrazor from Heidelberg Instruments is well suited for microfluidics.
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Direct Laser Writers such as the DWL 66+, with its grayscale capability, can be used, for example, to form 2.5D topographies guiding neuronal outgrowth. The ability to manipulate and direct axonal pathfinding is crucial for bioengineering.
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Maskless aligners like the µMLA or the MLA 150 are ideal for SU-8 and high aspect ratio structures that are needed in some biological and medical applications. Some advanced microcontainers have been fabricated with this technology.
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The MPO 100 enables 3D microprinting in various materials, some of which are biocompatible or biodegradable. Those can be used in tissue engineering to print scaffolds on which stem cells could grow to reconstruct organs.
Physical Vapour Deposition Systems suitable for electrical contacts and functional materials on flexible and biocompatible devices including thermal evaporation, magnetron sputtering, e-beam evaporation and low temperature organic deposition.
Biointerfaces play a major role in biocompatibility, drug delivery, biofilm formation,healing processes or cancer research. The characterization of the elementary reaction steps is accessible by XPS, especially due to its surface sensitivity. But drying of biomaterials also change the processes signifcantly. Thus NAP-XPS ist perfectly suited to contribute to this field of research.
