Ensuring minimal humidity levels in hermetic implant housings

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2296-2299

  Schuettler, Martin ^a   Schatz, Andreas ^a   Ordonez, Juan S ^a   Stieglitz, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE PRESSURE; CRITICAL LEVEL; DETECTION LIMITS; ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY; HELIUM PURGE; HUMIDITY LEVELS; IMPLANTABLE DEVICES; INTEGRATED SENSORS; TIME SPAN;

DRIERS (MATERIALS); HELIUM; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); MOISTURE;

SENSORS;

WATER;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEATING; HUMIDITY; METHODOLOGY; PRESSURE; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; EQUIPMENT FAILURE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HEATING; HUMIDITY; PRESSURE; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; WATER;

EID: 84862258769     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090578     Document Type: Conference Paper

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