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A Wearable Low-Power Sensing Platform for Environmental and Health Monitoring: The Convergence Project

The low-power sensing platform proposed by the Convergence project is foreseen as a wireless, low-power and multifunctional wearable system empowered by energy-efficient technologies. This will allow meeting the strict demands of life-style and healthcare ...

2021

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

Analysis of Dielectric Microbead Detection by Impedance Spectroscopy with Nanoribbons

Carlotta Guiducci, Enrico Accastelli, Paolo Scarbolo, Luca Selmi, Thomas Ernst

We present a quantitative numerical analysis of dielectric microbead detection experiments with nanoribbons operated in the AC small signal regime. To this purpose, a comprehensive model of nanoribbon operation in electrolyte environment and with DC/AC sig ...

Ieee2016

Multi-Wire Tri-Gate Silicon Nanowires Reaching Milli-pH Unit Resolution in One Micron Square Footprint

Carlotta Guiducci, Enrico Accastelli, Paolo Scarbolo, Pierpaolo Palestri, Luca Selmi, Thomas Ernst

The signal-to-noise ratio of planar ISFET pH sensors deteriorates when reducing the area occupied by the device, thus hampering the scalability of on-chip analytical systems which detect the DNA polymerase through pH measurements. Top-down nano-sized tri-g ...

Mdpi Ag2016

Introduction to the Special Section on Functionality-Enhanced Devices

Giovanni De Micheli, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Subhasish Mitra, Thomas Ernst

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

Comparison between front- and back-gating of Silicon Nanoribbons in real-time sensing experiments

Carlotta Guiducci, Enrico Accastelli, Giulia Cappi, Thomas Ernst

Field-effect transistors (FETs) with open gate structures such as Silicon Nanoribbons (SiNRs) are promising candidates to become general platforms for ultrasensitive, label-free and real-time detection of biochemical interactions on surface. This work prop ...

2013

CELONCEL: Effective Design Technique for 3-D Monolithic Integration targeting High Performance Integrated Circuits

Giovanni De Micheli, Shashi Kanth Bobba, Thomas Ernst

3-D monolithic integration (3DMI), also termed as sequential integration, is a potential technology for future gigascale circuits. Since the device layers are processed in sequential order, the size of the vertical contacts is similar to traditional contac ...

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