I am interested in evaluating whether we should be going into
Biosensors and hence am trying to identify the applicability and the
potential benefits MST, MEMS, Silicon Micromachining Technology may
offer to the fabrication and realisation of Biosensors.

It would seem that Biosensors using silicon technology will never be
able to match the "disposable costs" achievable with the plastic
test strips used in say glucose tests.

This leaves reuseable devices and reuseable devices that can monitor
more than one component. In this area Silicon technology is also in
competition with cheaper thick film technology. Although silicon
can potentially provide additional integrated fluid handling
capabilities.

The final potential application area is implantable devices. This
seems to better suit silicon, but is many years down the road.

Does anyone have a view on this?

Rob Santilli

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