Implantable microchips

Products that are currently under development for commercialization are external and implantable microchips for the delivery of proteins, hormones, pain medications, and other pharmaceutical compounds. Microchips can be developed as a pharmacy on a chip because different drugs can be placed in different reservoirs of the same microchip, and the release could be achieved by applying the electrical potential to a specific reservoir. 

As important as the identification of the test systems on their housing or containers is the appropriate identification of test system individuals or test system parts that may need to be temporarily removed. This may constitute no problem, if the test system consists of (larger) animals (or plants), where tags, tattoos, colour codes on fur or tail, implanted microchips or other suitable markers may be used to characterise and identify the single individuals. On the other hand, individual water fleas might have to be removed from the test... 

Science and Technology of Bio-Inert Thin Films as Hermetic-Encapsulating Coatings for Implantable Biomedical Devices Application to Implantable Microchip in the Eye for the Artificial Retina... 

Scientific and Technological State-of-the-Art of Bio-inert Coatings for Encapsulation of Implantable Microchips... 

The technology for packaging implantable microchips is very challenging because of the size, material properties, mechanical structure and rigidity, biocompatibility, required lifetime, and maximum allowable temperature. Reliability, long-term stability, and acceptable cost are essential requirements for the packaging [9]. 

Fig. 3 Next-generation CMOS devices need a breakthrough in high-K films. TiAlOx or Ti02/Al203 superlattice layers push the research frontier to enable the next-generation CMOS devices and embedded energy-storage capacitors for implantable microchips...

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