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Vacuum Microfabrication on Live Fruit Fly

Vacuum Microfabrication on Live Fruit Fly. Anegal J. Shum and Babak A. Parviz University of Washington. IEEE International Conference on MEMS, 2007. Motivation. Fruit Fly: a sophisticated microsystem Energy storage, microactuation, sensing and decision making funtions

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Vacuum Microfabrication on Live Fruit Fly

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  1. Vacuum Microfabrication on Live Fruit Fly Anegal J. Shum and Babak A. Parviz University of Washington IEEE International Conference on MEMS, 2007

  2. Motivation • Fruit Fly: a sophisticated microsystem • Energy storage, microactuation, sensing and decision making funtions • Current state of MEMS field unable to reproduce such complexity • Interface electronic circuits with insects and control their functions • Construction of hybrid micro-flying robots

  3. Background • Model organism: Drosophila or Fruit Fly. • Widely used in developmental biology field • Life span four to six weeks: Focus on adult stage

  4. Vacuum Survival • Pressures as low as 55 mTorr durations up to 70 minutes • Fruit flies gained consciousness within an hour • Younger flies survived more than older flies! • Hungry flies survived less than fed fries! • And Female flies survived more than male flies!

  5. Patterning Process Fabrication Process

  6. Live Fruit Fly after Thermal Evaporation 100 nm thick 50 μm wide Indium patterns evaporated at 1 mTorr for 30 minutes at 30° C 30% of flies survived!

  7. Live Fruit Fly

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