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Development of an Integrated CMUTs-Based Resonant Biosensor for Label-Free Detection of DNA with Improved Selectivity by Ethylene- Glycol Alkanethiols

Sandro Carrara, Gian Luca Barbruni, Yihe Zhao

Gravimetric resonant-inspired biosensors have attracted increasing attention in industrial and point-of- care applications, enabling label-free detection of biomarkers such as DNA and antibodies. Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs) are ...

ELSEVIER2024

A Front-End CMOS Interface Circuit With High Voltage Charge Pump and Oscillator for Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers

Sandro Carrara, Gian Luca Barbruni, Zhengwen Jiang, Yihe Zhao

Label-free biosensors, combined with miniaturized micro-electromechanical sensory platforms, offer an attractive solution for real-time and facile monitoring of biomolecules due to their high sensitivity and selectivity without the need for specifically la ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

Coupling Effects of Crosstalk and Parasitic Loss on Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers

Sandro Carrara, Yihe Zhao

Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs) have been widely utilized in applications of biomolecule monitoring, ultrasound medical diagnosis, and ultrasound therapy because of their advantages in high-level integration with integrated circuits ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

New Insights for Parasitic Effects of Label-Free Biosensors Based on Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers

Sandro Carrara, Zhengwen Jiang, Yihe Zhao, Jie Li

Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs) are regarded as an attractive candidate in bio-applications such as imaging and molecule monitoring. However, the previous researches on biochemical sensing are mostly air-coupled application based on ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Design and Simulation of a Wide-Bandwidth CMUTs Array with Dual-Mixed radii and Multi Operating Modes

Yu Bai, Yihe Zhao, Zhengwen Jiang, Jie Li, Zichen Liu

A capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs) array with dual-mixed radii is designed to improve bandwidth and realize multi-modes operating for immersed ultrasonic applications. The two-size (TS) CMUT array is composed of two sub-arrays with d ...

IEEE2021

Equivalent Circuit Analysis of CMUTs-based Device for Measurement in Liquid Samples

Sandro Carrara, Gian Luca Barbruni, Yihe Zhao

Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs) operating at the series and parallel resonant frequencies, have shown a great potential in ultrasonic application and in biodetection. However, previous equivalent circuits rarely consider the fitting ...

IEEE2021