As digital healthcare has progressed significantly in recent years, the use of wearables and other electronic devices has increased and become a focus of active research and development. The need for advanced medical devices for patient monitoring is rapidly expanding in routine healthcare follow-up and in clinical drug development.
To ensure long lifetime and proper device functionality, the device’s components must be protected from the outer environment. A protective coating can provide hermetic sealing, increase structural integrity and corrosion resistance, and prevent the device from causing irritation or other unwanted effects to the user. The perfect protective coating needs to be a biocompatible, pinhole-free barrier capable of uniformly encasing devices that have a wide variety of shapes and sizes.
Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) technology allows fabrication of ultra-thin, highly uniform, and conformal material layers of exact thickness to atomic level and chemical composition on a variety of substrates, including highly temperature-sensitive organic materials. The technology was originally brought into large-scale use by the semiconductor industry and has since been applied to a variety of applications, including the latest medical technology innovations. Using ALD as the coating method for wearables and medical devices can enable longer lifetime and improved reliability for the device, and therefore, greater accuracy for registering the patient data. In addition, Picosun’s ALD solutions have been in production for years at various medical industries for electronical implant protection. The coatings have been tested and proven to be non-cytotoxic and biocompatible, and to have antibacterial or bioactive function.
Join our webinar to learn more about how ALD can benefit the MedTech industry and create added value and competitive edge to digital healthcare products. We will present the latest results of ALD as a protective barrier, and provide practical examples of ALD coating for purposes such as implantable medical devices.
Key Learning Objectives
- ALD concept and its most common benefits for wearables and medical devices
- Practical examples of Picosun’s ALD coatings on medical devices
- Future aspects of ALD in MedTech
