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Editorial: Modeling and Applications of Optoelectronic Devices for Access Networks

2021

Nonlinear piezoelectric vibration energy harvester with frequency-tuned impacting resonators for improving broadband performance at low frequencies

Nico de Rooij, Danick Briand, Andres Felipe Vasquez Quintero, Robert Andrew Lockhart

The paper reports on a nonlinear frequency up-converting vibration energy harvester with enhanced broadband performance below 50 Hz, which is attained by leveraging vibro-impact interaction between two high-frequency piezoelectric generators and two low-fr ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2019

Highly transparent humidity sensor with thin cellulose acetate butyrate and hydrophobic AF1600X vapor permeating layers fabricated by screen printing

Nico de Rooij, Danick Briand, El Hadji Malick Camara, Jun Li, Hongyu Li, Hongwei Jiang

2018

A low-cost UWB sensor node powered by a piezoelectric harvester or solar cells

Nico de Rooij, Danick Briand, Anja Skrivervik, Pierre-André Farine, Franz-Josef Haug, Cyril Botteron, Pattanaphong Janphuang, Robert Andrew Lockhart, Christian Robert, Gabriele Tasselli

We propose an autonomous battery-less wireless sensor node that combines on a single printed circuit board an ultra-wideband (UWB) transmitter and its printed antenna, together with a piezoelectric cantilever and a solar cell array to harvest vibrations an ...

Elsevier2016

Smart RFID Label with a Printed Multisensor Platform for Environmental Monitoring

Nico de Rooij, Danick Briand, Francisco Molina Lopez, Andres Felipe Vasquez Quintero

2016

Tubular gas preconcentrators based on inkjet printed micro-hotplates on foil

Nico de Rooij, Danick Briand, El Hadji Malick Camara

This paper presents the design and implementation of a foil gas preconcentrator (FGP) based on a gold micro-hotplate inkjet printed on a polyimide (PI) substrate. The device is made on flexible foil using printing whereas all preconcentrators seen in liter ...

Elsevier2016

Fully inkjet printed SnO2 gas sensor on plastic substrate

Nico de Rooij, Danick Briand, El Hadji Malick Camara, Mathilde Rieu

A tin dioxide (SnO2) sensor was fabricated by inkjet printing onto polyimide foil. Gold electrodes and heater were printed on each side of the substrate. A SnO2 based ink was developed by sol-gel method and jetted onto the electrodes. A final annealing at ...

Elsevier2016

Preconcentration Modeling for the Optimization of a Micro Gas Preconcentrator Applied to Environmental Monitoring

Nico de Rooij, Danick Briand, El Hadji Malick Camara

This paper presents the optimization of a micro gas preconcentrator (mu-GP) system applied to atmospheric pollution monitoring, with the help of a complete modeling of the preconcentration cycle. Two different approaches based on kinetic equations are used ...

American Chemical Society2015

Foil-Level Inkjet-Printed pyroMEMS Balloon Actuators: Fabrication, Modeling, and Validation

Nico de Rooij, Danick Briand, Francisco Molina Lopez, David de Koninck

A cleanroom-free fabrication process adapted to microfluidic devices is presented for pyrotechnical microelectromechanical systems balloon actuators. The actuators are intended for on-chip pumping and fluid ejection to replace tabletop pumping solutions in ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

In-plane fabrication of insulated gold-tip probes for electrochemical and force spectroscopy molecular experiments

Nico de Rooij, Terunobu Akiyama, Sebastian Gautsch, Peter Van der Wal, Yexian Wu

A new and versatile fabrication process of insulated gold tip probes for atomic force microscopy (AFM) is presented by Wu et al. (In-plane fabricated insulated gold-tip probe for electrochemical and molecular experiments, in: 2013 IEEE 26th International C ...

Elsevier2014