Advanced Materials, Coatings & Process Parameter Selection for Optimal Implantable Devices
Thu. February 7| 1:15 PM - 2:00 PM | 210C
Show: MD&M West 2019
Track: MD&M West: Technical Solutions
Focus: Design & Product Development, Materials
Badge Type: Paid
The underlying technologies that bring implantable devices to life are critical as medical device manufacturers are pressed to design ever-smaller devices with increasingly longer service life. You'll hear from two industry experts about how thin films, coatings and surface solutions, as well as silicon process technologies for Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) are critical to designing and delivering customized devices.
Topics covered include:
Topics covered include:
- Thin-film composition and various electrode surface treatment technologies as a means of improving coating performance
- How electrodes and their surface properties can gain a competitive edge via advances in coating technology that can enable better charge exchange capacity, improved accuracy and efficacy of treatment while extending battery life
- Examples of materials and coating solutions for neurostimulation, electrophysiology, cardiac rhythm management, and cochlear implant devices
- The physics and fabrication steps for the silicon devices used in the ASIC designs
- Silicon technology selection procedures for implantable medical device ASICs to enable integration of a complete set of electronic functions
- Examples demonstrating how to the silicon technology selection procedure was used to realize a wide range of implantable device functions
Speakers
Director of Applications Engineering
Cactus Semiconductor, A Cirtec Company
Role: Speaker