![]() |
|
|
|
|
| Microsystem technology |
| Everything is medicine and nothing is medicine.
Only the amount counts… |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
| The microsystem technology (MST) produces technical
(sub-) systems, with function-determining-structures covering
dimensions at micrometer scale. It is unlike the nanotechnology,
which is used for function-determining-structures, with lateral
sizes in the nanometres range. |
| |
| The microsystem technology as well as the nanotechnology
overlap with the thin layer technology, in which function-determining-structures
posses vertical dimensions in the nanometres range and are
expanded lateral. |
| |
| The microsystem technology combines
techniques of micro-electronics, micromechanics, microfluidics,
and microoptics, but also developments of computer science,
biotechnology and nanotechnology, by joining developments and
structures from these areas into new systems. |
|
|
|
|
| In these systems sensors, actuators and data
processing work together. Prominent examples are the optical
sensors in wireless mice, or bubble-jet print heads, which
combine minute jets with heating elements, even with separate
intelligence in the printer head. |
| |
| Further application examples are acceleration
sensors for the activation of airbags, turn ratio sensors for
safety bars, instruments for the minimal-invasive surgery like
endoscopy systems or chemical sensors for food control. |
|
|
|
![]() |
