AAWSAP DIRD, Biosensors and BioMEMS: A Survey of the Present Field, March 2010

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Biosensors and BioMEMS: A Survey of the Present Field
Introduction
Biomedical sensors and implantable devices employing micro­
electromechanical technology will be important to the future of biomedicine.
Once just science fiction, the notion of a bionic man is now becoming a reality
through the application of microscale technologies. Today it is not unusual to
have a friend or family member who has an implantable device, such as a
pacemaker, defibrillator, cochlear implant, biosensor, neurostimulator, or
insulin pump.
We have only seen the beginning of this technology development, and today's
state-of-the-art implantable devices will be seen as crude and cumbersome
tomorrow. With the rapid pace of development, it is probable that within the
next two decades we will have as many medical treatments based on
microdevices as there are pharmaceutical solutions today. This paper
examines some of the most recent advances in the field, as well as the
technologies that are likely to appear in the next few years.
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