Fatigue testing of polyimide-based micro implants

IFMBE Proceedings

Volumn 22, Issue , 2008, Pages 1594-1597

  Kisban, Sebastian ^a   Moser, D ^a   Rubehn, B ^b   Stieglitz, T ^b   Paul, O ^a   Ruther, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Laboratory for Biomedical Microtechnology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fatigue testing; Mechanical testing; MEMS; Polyimide; Ribbon cable

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; EUROPEAN STANDARDS; FATIGUE TESTS; FLEXIBLE POLYIMIDE; FOUR-WIRE; FUNCTIONAL FAILURE; MAXIMUM FREQUENCY; MECHANICAL LOADS; METALLIZATION LAYERS; MICRO DEVICES; NEURAL PROBES; PHYSIOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT; POLYIMIDE LAYERS; RIBBON CABLE; SILICON-BASED; STIMULATION UNITS; SUBSTRATE MATERIAL; SYSTEM CONCEPTS; TEST METHOD;

BENDING TESTS; CABLES; FLAT CABLES; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PHYSIOLOGY; PLATINUM; POLYIMIDES; STEEL BRIDGES;

FATIGUE TESTING;

EID: 67849088204     PISSN: 16800737     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-89208-3_379     Document Type: Conference Paper

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