Our future success is based on our proven ability to bring together varied component technologies, assemble them on a common platform and provide the electrical, fluid and optical connection required by today’s process chemists and engineers.

Our Mission 

To use the latest MEMS technology to fashion revolutionary microchemical products that make it truly possible for our clients to perform “Chemistry. Anywhere.  Anytime.”

About Protasis UK 

Protasis UK is one of six recently-formed microchemistry design centers created by Protasis Corporation to seize market ascendancy in the global race to miniaturize and optimize chemical devices and methods and bring them out of the lab to their point-of-use.  Each design center has its own competency focus and all have skill in integrating microchemistry components into instrumental systems.

Protasis UK was assembled in February, 2000 through the purchase of the IP assets of Microsensors in Space & Terrestrial Biology (MSTB) and the hiring of one of its founding scientists, Dr. David Barrow.  Barrow, professor of microsystems technology and director of the Laboratory for Applied Microsystems at Cardiff University is among the foremost MEMS scientists in the European community.

In his previous work with The European Space Agency and other aerospace and pharmaceutical companies, Dr. Barrow demonstrated considerable proficiency in emerging new microfabrication techniques such as etching, bonding, LIGA, laser machining, integration and packaging.

Since then, David has designed several prototype microchemistry components, including biochips, sensors, and cartridge readers as well as instrument control software. All will be incorporated into a line of Protasis Corporation microconsumables that will be brought to market in 2002. 

Hybrid Integration:
Solving Tomorrow’s Problems with Today’s Newest Thinking

Choosing the best available microcomponents for performing a range of different tasks, often results in a mixed bag of technologies that just can’t be harmonized into a monolithic integration strategy.

Enter Protasis UK with an alternative, dynamic approach that is based on the assembly of varied component technologies, fabricated using a variety of methodologies and materials, which are then assembled on a common platform to deliver the electrical, fluid and optical connections required by today’s process chemists and engineers.

The flexibility of this synthesized approach makes it the most appropriate route to very-large-scale-integrated devices in the microelectronics industry. The benefits are clear:  the choice of component technologies is not limited by the integration, and components can be chosen from the entire range available, meaning choices can be made on the basis of suitability and performance.  In addition, production yields can be improved by the opportunity to test individual components prior to assembly. 

micro-Thames
A working Protasis microscape

Deep Reactive Ion Etch
Rapid prototyping in polymer structures.

Blood Gas Sensor
Protasis uses hybrid integration to create microchemistry circuits.