Shape Memory Implants

Shape Memory Implants
Author: L. Yahia
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 539
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3642597688

Shape memory alloy implants or "smart biomaterial" have already been used in humans for 20 years in selected countries. Restrictions in the use of biomaterials in living organisms being reduced throughout the world now the use of SMA implants continue to expand in the fields of vascular and orthopaedic surgery, minimally invasive surgery and drug delivery systems. This book is to provide a state of the art of SMA implants and devices. For the first time long-term clinical experiences and techniques of SMA biocompatibility are presented.

Mems/Nems

Mems/Nems
Author: Cornelius T. Leondes
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 2142
Release: 2007-10-08
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0387257861

This significant and uniquely comprehensive five-volume reference is a valuable source for research workers, practitioners, computer scientists, students, and technologists. It covers all of the major topics within the subject and offers a comprehensive treatment of MEMS design, fabrication techniques, and manufacturing methods. It also includes current medical applications of MEMS technology and provides applications of MEMS to opto-electronic devices. It is clearly written, self-contained, and accessible, with helpful standard features including an introduction, summary, extensive figures and design examples with comprehensive reference lists.

Materials for Mechanical and Optical Microsystems: Volume 444

Materials for Mechanical and Optical Microsystems: Volume 444
Author: Michael L. Reed
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1997-03-30
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN:

A selection of 33 reviewed papers explore the materials aspects of microsystems, especially those involving mechanical, optical, and thermal components. The topics include technology for micro- assembling, selective electroless copper metallization of epoxy substrates, an improved auto-adhesion measurement method for micro-machines polysilicon beams, patterned sol-gel structures by micro-molding in capillaries, the experimental analysis of the process of anodic bonding using an evaporated glass layer, the effect of inorganic thin film material processing and properties on stress in silicon piezoresistive pressure sensors, and photoconductivity in vacuum-deposited films of silicon-based polymers. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR