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 Microsystems incorporate many different miniaturised functions including sensing, actuation, signal / data processing, communications and power integrated in a single silicon chip or micro-assembled in a multi-chip, system-in-package (SiP). Microfluidic functions may also be incorporated for analysis of biological and chemical species. The emerging markets for microsystems, as well as providing great product potential, are also beginning to underpin many of the future applications in systems fields such as communications, photonics, remote environmental monitoring, biomedical microdevices and point-of-care diagnostics.
With more than 80 researchers including 12 Principal Investigators, the Microsystems Centre at Tyndall is focused on the development and application of next generation technology platforms that will address key challenges in health and the environment. Two themes are driving the Centre’s research activities – intelligent wireless sensors and the ICT - Life Science Interface.
 The Microelectronics Applications Integration (MAI) Group is researching technology platforms and deployment scenarios that will play a key role in the development of future intelligent or smart systems, combining the areas of electronic system integration, on-chip sensing and actuation, autonomous power scavenging and wireless communications. The research programme is based on functional integration that will enable “system-in-package”or “heterogeneous integration” on silicon.
The Centre’s Life Sciences Interface (LSI) Group is a multi-disciplinary unit working on bringing micro and nano-technology-based sensors and systems into action to solve problems in bio- and medical technologies such as biomolecular measurements and cellular manipulations. The benefits of micro- and nano-technologies in these instances can include better sensors, portable laboratory-on-a-chip systems and minimally-invasive interfacing with bio-tissues.
Find out more at: http://www.tyndall.ie/microsystems/
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