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 Event Title: Biomechanics Laboratory Seminar Series
Where: Biomechanics Research Laboratory @ UIC
Friday, April 1, 2005
Time: 3:00 PM CST
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Biomechanics Seminar Series
Topic: Model and Design of a Double Chamber Superimposed MEMS Micropump
Speaker: Enrico Zordan
Location: Biomechanics Research Lab 1032 ERF- 842 West Taylor St.
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Abstract:
MEMS micropumps are one of the most promising devices for a new concept of medical care technologies. The potential wide diffusion of these products is today very compromised by three main different problems: the efficiency is low so the power source required still is too large for a portable device, the fabrication costs are too high and reliability is not enough for crucial application. For this reasons a fundamental step is modeling; it is required for an optimized design that can minimize if not solve these problems. Our micropump is for fluid pumping, the specific design is for blood but the mathematical model developed could easily give information for optimize the design for different fluids. The most important characteristic of the pump is the double superimposed chamber, where the upper and lower chambers share a membrane in a ''sandwich'' design.
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