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Scalable fabrication of functional nanostructures on stretchable substrates by capillary-assisted particle assembly and adhesion lithography

The fabrication of metallic nanostructures on stretchable substrates enables specific applications that exploit the combination of the nano-scale phenomena and the mechanical tunability of the physical dimensions of the nanostructures. Due to the large dif ...

EPFL2022

Integration of Ultra-Low Volume Pneumatic Microfluidics with a Three-Dimensional Electrode Network for On-Chip Biochemical Sensing

Carlotta Guiducci, Saurabh Tomar, Thomas Ernst

This paper reports a novel miniaturized pseudo reference electrode (RE) design for biasing Ion Sensitive Field Effect Transistors (ISFETs). It eliminates the need for post-CMOS processing and can scale up in numbers with the CMOS scaling. The presented des ...

2021

Cell-Imprint Surface Modification by Contact Photolithography-Based Approaches: Direct-Cell Photolithography and Optical Soft Lithography Using PDMS Cell Imprints

Philippe Renaud, Harald Van Lintel, Shahin Bonakdar, Hanie Kavand

New cell-imprint surface modification techniques based on direct-cell photolithography and optical soft lithography using poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) cell imprints are presented for enhanced cell-based studies. The core concept of engineering materials f ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Fixed DNA Molecule Arrays for High-Throughput Single DNA-Protein Interaction Studies

Vytautas Navikas

The DNA Curtains assay is a recently developed experimental platform for protein-DNA interaction studies at the single-molecule level that is based on anchoring and alignment of DNA fragments. The DNA Curtains so far have been made by using chromium barrie ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

All-printed low-power metal oxide gas sensors on polymeric substrates

Danick Briand, Saleem Khan

This paper presents a novel approach for the fabrication of miniaturized and fully printed metal-oxide (MOX) gas sensors on a polyimide (PI) substrate by using digital manufacturing of the functional layers, namely aerosol jet and inkjet printing technolog ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2019

High-aspect ratio nanopatterning via combined thermal scanning probe lithography and dry etching

Jürgen Brugger, Yuliya Lisunova

Thermal scanning probe lithography is an emerging nanofabrication technique for rapid prototyping of arbitrary topographies in thermally sensitive resist. This feature, paired to the recent advances in dry plasma etching techniques, allows the fabrication ...

Elsevier2017

Engineered substrates with embedded strain relief for stretchable thin-film electronics

Alessia Romeo

Stretchable electronics are integrated circuitry that can reversibly expand and relax while retaining their functionality. This emerging technology has great potential in unconventional electronic application areas, especially in biomedical sector. To atta ...

EPFL2015

Controlled DNA Patterning by Chemical Lift-Off Lithography: Matrix Matters

Nako Nakatsuka

Nucleotide arrays require controlled surface densities and minimal nucleotide–substrate interactions to enable highly specific and efficient recognition by corresponding targets. We investigated chemical lift-off lithography with hydroxyl- and oligo(ethyle ...

2015

PDMS-based, magnetically actuated variable optical attenuators obtained by soft lithography and inkjet printing technologies

Jürgen Brugger, Victor Javier Cadarso Busto

This paper reports and compares the implementation of magnetic variable optical attenuators (M-VOA) by two fabrication strategies. In the first case, a two-layer structure containing a non-doped polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) layer on a magnetic PDMS (M-PDMS) ...

Elsevier2014

Lithography: Hybrid Helical Magnetic Microrobots Obtained by 3D Template-Assisted Electrodeposition (Small 7/2014)

Mahmut Selman Sakar, Berna Ayse Özkale Edelmann

Hybrid artificial flagella (h-ABF) consisting of a ferromagnetic alloy head and a helical polymer tail can be fabricated by sequential electrodeposition of a cobalt-nickel alloy and polypyrrole inside a photoresist template patterned by 3D laser lithograph ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

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