A low power, micromachined, proportional valve for drug delivery

Micro Total Analysis Systems - Proceedings of MicroTAS 2006 Conference: 10th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1148-1150

  Evans, Allan T ^a   Park, Jong M ^d   Taylor, Ryan P ^b   Brosten, Tyler R ^b   Nellis, Gregory F ^b   Klein, Sanford A ^b   Feller, Jeffrey R ^c   Salerno, Louis ^c   Gianchandani, Yogesh B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Drug delivery; Flow modulation; Microvalve; Piezoelectric actuation

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; MODULATION; PIEZOELECTRICITY;

DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; FLOW MODULATIONS; MICRO VALVES; PACKAGED STRUCTURES; PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATION; PROPORTIONAL VALVES; ROOM TEMPERATURE; VISCOUS LIQUIDS;

DRUG DELIVERY;

EID: 41849086724     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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