SENSING AND ACTUATING BIO-MATERIALS ON STANDARD CMOS SUBSTRATES

We present a low-cost, low-power, high efficiency, and portable integrated implementations of a lab-on-chip for magnetic molecular level sensing manipulation, and diagnosis. The design features an all-integrated programmable magnetic coil array for sensing and actuating small magnetic bead objects. The coil array is selectively and dynamically controlled using the smallest permissible vertical coil inductors in this technology. Each cell, composed of the coil and its logical control circuitry, can detect small objects in the order of 1 μm diameter as well as emit eight programmable magnetic field levels for manipulation. All array sensing and driving components are shared to reduce the overall imprint. They are tuned towards the 900 s MHz ISM band and incorporating high-speed serial row/column switching up to 40 MHz for seamless pseudo-parallel operation.

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On-chip trans-dimensional plasmonic router

Nanophotonics ◽

10.1515/nanoph-2020-0078 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (10) ◽

pp. 3357-3365 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Shaohua Dong ◽

Qing Zhang ◽

Guangtao Cao ◽

Jincheng Ni ◽

Ting Shi ◽

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Keyword(s):

High Speed ◽

High Efficiency ◽

Incident Angle ◽

Reciprocal Lattice ◽

Plasmonic Waveguide ◽

Optical Diffraction ◽

Local Dynamic ◽

Phase Gradient ◽

On Chip ◽

Plasmon Polaritons

AbstractPlasmons, as emerging optical diffraction-unlimited information carriers, promise the high-capacity, high-speed, and integrated photonic chips. The on-chip precise manipulations of plasmon in an arbitrary platform, whether two-dimensional (2D) or one-dimensional (1D), appears demanding but non-trivial. Here, we proposed a meta-wall, consisting of specifically designed meta-atoms, that allows the high-efficiency transformation of propagating plasmon polaritons from 2D platforms to 1D plasmonic waveguides, forming the trans-dimensional plasmonic routers. The mechanism to compensate the momentum transformation in the router can be traced via a local dynamic phase gradient of the meta-atom and reciprocal lattice vector. To demonstrate such a scheme, a directional router based on phase-gradient meta-wall is designed to couple 2D SPP to a 1D plasmonic waveguide, while a unidirectional router based on grating metawall is designed to route 2D SPP to the arbitrarily desired direction along the 1D plasmonic waveguide by changing the incident angle of 2D SPP. The on-chip routers of trans-dimensional SPP demonstrated here provide a flexible tool to manipulate propagation of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) and may pave the way for designing integrated plasmonic network and devices.

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SIMULATION SCHEME MODELING OF THE SUPER-SPEED TIME BUFFER

Электросвязь ◽

10.34832/elsv.2020.9.8.011 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

А.М. САЖНЕВ ◽

Л.Г. РОГУЛИНА

Keyword(s):

High Speed ◽

High Efficiency ◽

Low Cost ◽

Circuit Modeling ◽

Clock Signal ◽

Behavioral Models ◽

Software Environment ◽

Time Buffer ◽

The Given ◽

Simulation Scheme

Приводятся результаты моделирования сверхскоростного буфера тактовых сигналов, выполненного на базе арсенид-галлиевых n-канальных транзисторов в среде OrCAD и полностью отвечающего следующим требованиям: высокие технические характеристики, малые размеры, высокая частота и КПД, гибкость применения. Приведенные поведенческие модели допускают использование любой программной среды по схемотехническому моделированию. The results of simulation of an ultra-high-speed clock signal buffer based on gallium arsenide n-channel transistors in OrCAD are presented, which fully meets the following requirements: high technical characteristics, application flexibility, low cost, small size, high frequency, and high efficiency. The given behavioral models allow the use of any software environment for circuit modeling.

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Fingerprint Identification System Based on DSP

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.468-471.920 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 468-471 ◽

pp. 920-923

Author(s):

Ya Ping Bao ◽

Li Liu ◽

Yuan Wang ◽

Qian Song

Keyword(s):

Software Design ◽

High Speed ◽

High Efficiency ◽

Low Cost ◽

Fingerprint Identification ◽

Identification System ◽

System Operation ◽

Operation Speed ◽

High Speed Data Acquisition ◽

High Speed Data

This paper introduced a fast fingerprint identification system based on TMS320VC5416 DSP chip and MBF200 solidity fingerprint sensor. It precipitates fingerprint identification device developing into the direction of miniaturization, embedded and automatic.It recommends fingerprint identification system hardware and software design and the main system processing flow, aim at fingerprint identification arithmetic, the influence of system operation speed is being researched at the same time. High-speed data acquisition system is been built in order to achieve a DSP fingerprint identification system with high efficiency and low cost.

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The Rise of the OM-LoC: Opto-Microfluidic Enabled Lab-on-Chip

Micromachines ◽

10.3390/mi12121467 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (12) ◽

pp. 1467

Author(s):

Harry Dawson ◽

Jinane Elias ◽

Pascal Etienne ◽

Sylvie Calas-Etienne

Keyword(s):

Low Cost ◽

Optical Components ◽

New Era ◽

Lab On Chip ◽

Highly Sensitive ◽

Multiple Challenges ◽

On Chip ◽

Optical Circuits ◽

Made In

The integration of optical circuits with microfluidic lab-on-chip (LoC) devices has resulted in a new era of potential in terms of both sample manipulation and detection at the micro-scale. On-chip optical components increase both control and analytical capabilities while reducing reliance on expensive laboratory photonic equipment that has limited microfluidic development. Notably, in-situ LoC devices for bio-chemical applications such as diagnostics and environmental monitoring could provide great value as low-cost, portable and highly sensitive systems. Multiple challenges remain however due to the complexity involved with combining photonics with micro-fabricated systems. Here, we aim to highlight the progress that optical on-chip systems have made in recent years regarding the main LoC applications: (1) sample manipulation and (2) detection. At the same time, we aim to address the constraints that limit industrial scaling of this technology. Through evaluating various fabrication methods, material choices and novel approaches of optic and fluidic integration, we aim to illustrate how optic-enabled LoC approaches are providing new possibilities for both sample analysis and manipulation.

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Low cost optical particle detection for lab on chip systems based on DVD technology

10.1117/12.759283 ◽

2007 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Andrew L. Clow ◽

Rainer Künnemeyer ◽

Paul Gaynor ◽

John C. Sharpe

Keyword(s):

Low Cost ◽

Particle Detection ◽

Lab On Chip ◽

On Chip

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The Gear Bearing Drive: A Novel Compact Actuator for Robotic Joints

Volume 6B: 37th Mechanisms and Robotics Conference ◽

10.1115/detc2013-13461 ◽

2013 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Elias Brassitos ◽

Constantinos Mavroidis ◽

Brian Weinberg

Keyword(s):

High Speed ◽

High Efficiency ◽

Low Cost ◽

Planetary Gear ◽

Mechanical Efficiency ◽

Torsional Stiffness ◽

Maximum Output ◽

Torque Density ◽

Robotic Joints ◽

Advanced Robotics

Advanced robotics requires a new generation of actuators able to exhibit a number of desirable characteristics ranging from high power density and high efficiency, high positioning resolution, high torque capacity and torsional stiffness, lightweight designs and low-cost packages. In this paper, we present the development and the experimental evaluation of a new actuator, aimed at improving the torque density and mechanical efficiency of actuated robotic joints, and enhancing the portability and effectiveness of robotic systems engaged in biomechanical applications such as rehabilitation robots and wearable exoskeletons. The new actuator, called the Gear Bearing Drive (GBD), consists of a two-stage planetary gear arrangement coupled through the planets and driven by an external rotor brushless motor that is inscribed within the input stage sun gear. This planetary configuration enables for incredible high-speed reductions and allows for embedding the motor directly within the gearbox saving significant space on the actuator length. Our initial experimental prototypes have demonstrated impressive performance with the potential to deliver more than 30Nm of continuous torque with 85% mechanical efficiency and 0.0005 degree of backlash, and up to 200 rpm maximum output speed in a highly compact and robust package.

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Point-of-Care Systems for Rapid DNA Quantification in Oncology

Tumori Journal ◽

10.1177/030089160809400214 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 94 (2) ◽

pp. 216-225 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Marco Bianchessi ◽

Sarah Burgarella ◽

Marco Cereda

Keyword(s):

Point Of Care ◽

Low Cost ◽

Semiconductor Industry ◽

Point Of Care Testing ◽

Lab On Chip ◽

Diagnostic Assays ◽

Care Systems ◽

Point Of Care Systems ◽

The Common ◽

On Chip

The development of new powerful applications and the improvement in fabrication techniques are promising an explosive growth in lab-on-chip use in the upcoming future. As the demand reaches significant levels, the semiconductor industry may enter in the field, bringing its capability to produce complex devices in large volumes, high quality and low cost. The lab-on-chip concept, when applied to medicine, leads to the point-of-care concept, where simple, compact and cheap instruments allow diagnostic assays to be performed quickly by untrained personnel directly at the patient's side. In this paper, some practical and economical considerations are made to support the advantages of point-of-care testing. A series of promising technologies developed by STMicroelectronics on lab-on-chips is also presented, mature enough to enter in the common medical practice. The possible use of these techniques for cancer research, diagnosis and treatment are illustrated together with the benefits offered by their implementation in point-of-care testing.

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