Durability of Electronic Circuits for Bioelectronic Medicine
MAXWELL 22.1
6 November 2018
MSc Kambiz Nanbakhsh, Prof.Dr.Ir. Wouter Serdijn and Dr. Vasiliki Giagka
Imagine a tiny device that can treat patients by injecting small electrical pulses into the neuronal tissue. These tiny microelectronic devices are the main focus of a new exciting field called Bioelectronic Medicine, with the main goal of one day replacing conventional chemical drugs. When implanted, these devices can act on the body’s nervous system to treat a wide variety of disorders, such as rheumatoid arthritis, obesity, Crohn’s disease, migraine, epilepsy, etc.[1] .The technological challenges behind realizing such devices, however, are enormous and encompass almost every facet of microfabrication and bioengineering technologies.