Microneedle fabrication using the plane pattern to cross-section transfer method

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 600-606

  Khumpuang, Sommawan ^a   Horade, Mitsuhiro ^a   Fujioka, Kazuya ^a   Sugiyama, Susumu ^a  

^a RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; TENSILE STRENGTH; X RAY LITHOGRAPHY;

CROSS-SECTION TRANSFER METHOD; MICRONEEDLE; QUADRUPLET MICRONEEDLES;

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT;

EID: 33645032207     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/15/2/043     Document Type: Article

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