National Nanofab Center Ministry of Science and ICT KAIST

Healthcare Devices

With digital innovation and transformation, we are evolving into an era of Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Virtual Reality, and Big Data based on computer technology. The traditional way of providing healthcare services is transitioning into a platform where both service providers and consumers can collect and analyze real-time data through the application of digital technology. In the field of healthcare, the integration of digital technology and mobile devices has enabled the real-time collection, analysis, and interpretation of various health information generated from the human body, enabling personalized health management. This technological change requires platform technology for various sensors, chips, components, and devices applied with semiconductor technology.

• Scalability: Platform technology makes it easy to measure and analyze various bio-signals, and the use of various mobile devices allows for expansion of application fields.
• Low Power: Using small components reduces power consumption required for bio-signal measurement, making it advantageous for mobile devices and suitable for use in medical fields.
• High Integration: High performance is achieved by using more structures and vertically integrated components to measure various bio-signals simultaneously.

• Fine Processing: The ability to create microstructures at the level of tens of nanometers to hundreds of micrometers, suitable for high performance, efficiency, and mass production.
• High Reproducibility: High reproducibility of fine processing reduces sensor and device errors and ensures data reliability.
• High Integration: Performance is improved by integrating more sensors and structures.
• Simultaneous Measurement of Multiple Bio-signals: The ability to measure multiple bio-signals simultaneously provides excellent performance for the cost.
• Miniaturization: The miniaturization of chips and components makes it easy to apply to mobile devices and suitable for use in medical fields.
• Low Power Operation: Reduced power consumption allows for long-term use.

• In-body and out-body bio-signal measurement sensor and device field
• Digital Therapeutics field
• Mobile Healthcare field
• Remote Medical Industry field

The National Nanofab Center is equipped with the ability to provide semiconductor device fabrication process technology and technical services applicable to healthcare devices, and can provide services at the following technology levels.