Design, modeling, fabrication and testing of integrated optical and bio microsystems

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Bio-security and Point-of-Care Testing (POCT) for health monitoring and diagnosis are the needs of the hour for rapid detection of biological and chemical species, and essential for various medical applications. This calls for a necessity to develop a cost effective Microsystems capable of rapid in-situ detection of biological elements. Integrated microsystems provide an answer to the problems of rapid pathogenic detections by integrating optics with biology. However, there are some critical issues which are associated with biophotonics such as miniaturization, portability etc. The portability of the device is required for in-situ medical detections while miniaturization of the biosensor is essential for handling smaller sample volumes in order to achieve high throughput. Both these conditions cannot be satisfied unless a technology to integrate microsystems is developed. Hence, the field of integrated Optical and Bio Mircrosystems has vast potential for drug delivery, medical diagnosis, lab-on-a-chip, biodefense, biosensors, point-of-care diagnostic applications, therapeutic micro/nano technologies, microarrays and biochips, protein arrays, bioassays, etc. that would benefit the society enormously.