2003 International Conference on MEMS, NANO and Smart Systems (ICMENS'03) On The Design of an Electronic Mosquito: Design and Analysis of the Micro-Needle Banff, Alberta, Canada July 20-July 23 ISBN: 0-7695-1947-4
This paper addresses the design of the Electronic Mosquito. It presents the analysis for the in-plane silicon micro-needles that can be used for drug delivery and/or blood sampling for biomedical applications. The characteristics of in-plane micro-needles are far more reliable than out-of-plane micro-needles for transdermal drug delivery and blood sampling. In order to withdraw blood samples from the subcutaneous fat layer, which occurs at a distance of 2000 to 4000 ?m below the skin surface, the length of our MEMS based in-plane micro-needle have been set at 3000 ?m. This length is impractical for out-of-plane micro-needles. Drug delivery and blood samplings place requirement in terms of minimal needle dimensions and force withstanding capabilities, which are inversely related to each other. The strength of the micro-needles has been examined analytically and modeled using finite element modeling tools. Through performance analysis it is shown that the proposed design is a significant improvement over existing micro-needles.
Index Terms:
Micro-needles, MEMS forces, drug delivery, blood sampling, finite element modeling, skin force
Citation:
Rashad Sharaf, Priyanka Aggarwal, Karan V.I.S. Kaler, Wael Badawy, "On The Design of an Electronic Mosquito: Design and Analysis of the Micro-Needle," icmens, pp.32, 2003 International Conference on MEMS, NANO and Smart Systems (ICMENS'03), 2003 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||