Skin penetration and fracture strength testing of silicon dioxide microneedles

Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical

Volumn 170, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 180-186

  Khanna, Puneet ^a   Flam, Brenda R ^b   Osborn, Barbara ^b   Strom, Joel A ^b,c   Bhansali, Shekhar ^a  

^a University of South Florida   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bio MEMS; DRIE; Lab on a chip; Microneedles

Indexed keywords

BIOMEMS; DRIE; FLUID DELIVERY; FRACTURE STRENGTHS; INSERTION FORCE; LAB-ON-A-CHIP; LOAD CELLS; MICRONEEDLES; SHEAR FRACTURE; SKIN PENETRATION;

FRACTURE; FRACTURE TESTING; SHEAR STRENGTH; SILICA;

NEEDLES;

EID: 80052268207     PISSN: 09244247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2010.09.024     Document Type: Article

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