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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="aggregator">72010410</journal-id>
      <journal-title>NIP &amp; Digital Fabrication Conference</journal-title>
      <abbrev-journal-title>nip digi fabric conf</abbrev-journal-title>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">2169-4451</issn><issn pub-type="epub"/>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Society of Imaging Science and Technology</publisher-name>
        <publisher-loc>7003 Kilworth Lane, Springfield, VA 22151, USA</publisher-loc>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2010.26.1.art00048_2</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="sici">2169-4451(20100101)2010:2L.558;1-</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">nip_v2010n2/splitsection48.xml</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="other">/ist/nipdf/2010/00002010/00000002/art00048</article-id>
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          <subject>Articles</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Fabrication of Biomedical Components &amp; Systems Using Ink Jet Microdispensing</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Hayes</surname>
            <given-names>Donald</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Wallace</surname>
            <given-names>David</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <pub-date>
        <day>01</day>
        <month>01</month>
        <year>2010</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>2010</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      <fpage>558</fpage>
      <lpage>560</lpage>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-year>2010</copyright-year>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <p>In the last decade, ink-jet has come to be viewed as a precision microdispensing tool, in addition to its huge success in color printing. Today, this tool is being used in a wide range of applications, including electrical &amp; optical interconnects, sensors, medical diagnostics, drug
 delivery, MEMS packaging, and nanostructure materials deposition. Ink-jet microdispensing is data-driven, non-contact, and is capable of precise deposition of picoliter volumes at high rates, even onto non-planar surfaces. Being data-driven, ink-jet dispensing is highly flexible and can be
 readily automated into manufacturing lines. This paper will illustrate a few of the applications of ink-jet technology that are either BioMEMS packaging applications, or specific Biomedical Device manufacturing applications.</p>
      </abstract>
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