part, PART I Fundamentals -- chapter 1 Electrochemical microsystem technologies: principles / J. WALTER SCHULTZE -- chapter 2 Application for homogeneous electrochemistry: measurements of fast reaction kinetics J. HEINZE AND K. BORGWARTH -- chapter 3 Fundamentals of scanning electrochemical microscopy / MICHAEL V. MIRKIN BENJAMIN R. HORROCKS -- chapter 4 Electrochemical microcells and surface analysis / M. M. LOHRENGEL AND A. MOEHRING -- chapter 5 Application of optical micro-methods and lasers in electrochemistry / A. MICHAELIS S. KUDELKA -- chapter 6 Nucleation and growth in microsystem technology / GEORGI STAIKOV -- part, PART II Micropatterning -- chapter 7 High resolution lithography / SHINJI MATSUI -- chapter 8 Advanced plating technology for electronics packaging / HIDEO HONMA HIDETO WATANABE -- chapter 9 Micro-electroforming of miniaturized devices for chemical applications / HOLGER LÖWE WOLFGANG EHRFELD JÖRG SCHIEWE -- part, PART III Integration of systems -- chapter 10 Capacitors and micropower systems / AKIHIKO YOSHIDA -- chapter 11 Batteries for micropower applications / BOONE B. OWENS CURTIS L. HOLMES JOHN BATES WILLIAM H. SMYRL -- chapter 12 Micro flow systems for chemical and biochemical applications / SHUICHI SHOJI -- chapter 13 Corrosion of microsystems / GUENTER SCHMITT -- part, PART IV Microanalysis and microsensors -- chapter 14 Electrochemical microanalysis / HENDRIK EMONS -- chapter 15 Novel approaches to design silicon-based field-effect sensors / M. J. SCHÖNING -- chapter 16 Miniaturization of biosensors / WOLFGANG SCHUHMANN KATJA HABERMÜLLER -- chapter 17 Scanning probe microscopy as an analysis tool / LARRY A. NAGAHARA -- chapter 18 Microelectrode techniques for characterization of advanced materials for battery and sensor applications / MATSUHIKO NISHIZAWA ISAMU UCHIDA -- part, PART V Biological systems -- chapter 19 Microsystems for biosensing nucleic acids and immuno proteins / TADASHI MATSUNAGA AND TAE-KYU LIM -- chapter 20 New microelectrode arrays for biosensing and membrane electroporation / EBERHARD NEUMANN KATJA TÖNSING -- chapter 21 Multi-barrelled ion-selective microelectrodes: measurements of cell volume, membrane potential, and intracellular ion concentrations in invertebrate nerve cells / PAUL WILHELM DIERKES, SUSANNE NEUMANN, ANJA MÜLLER, -- chapter 22 Nerve cells and lipid vesicles on silicon chips - considerations on ionoelectronic sensors / PETER FROMHERZ.