The aim of this project was to develop a new technological platform based on simple manufacturing techniques for the fabrication of transducers and sensors on polymer membranes.
Indeed, the traditional methods of machining and structuring layers to produce transducers are limited when it comes to integration on thin polymer substrates such as membranes. Transducers on membranes meet a need in a growing number of applications, particularly in bioengineering. The problematic of this project has both a technological and an applied dimension. Its context is thus twofold: the development of new manufacturing processes for transducers and sensors on polymer membranes, as well as their potential application for test systems on in vitro cultures.
This project has allowed the development of a technological platform, i.e. a series of manufacturing processes that can be combined with each other, allowing the fabrication of transducers and sensors on polymer membranes using new simple manufacturing techniques, and then demonstrating their interest by producing various types of microsystems on this type of substrate.
Three specific goals have been set. The following points recall these goals:
Project partner(s)
Project leader - team
Philippe Passeraub
(HEPIA),
Fabien Moreillon
(HEPIA),
Choulak L.
(HEPIA),
Bühlmann D.
(HEPIA),
El Guamra A.-M.
(HEPIA)