Publications by Sandro Carrara

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New insights for using self-assembly materials to improve the detection stability in label-free DNA-chip and immuno-sensors

Sandro Carrara, Luca Benini, Andrea Cavallini, Anna Ferretti, Bruno Samori

This paper examines reliable advancements in low-cost DNA- and immuno-chips. Capacitance detection was successfully chosen to develop label-free bio-chips. Probe immobilization was rigorously investigated in order to obtain reliable capacitance measurement ...

Elsevier2009

Amperometric Measurements by a Novel Aerosol Jet Printed Flexible Sensor for Wearable Applications

Sandro Carrara, Sarah Tonello

the last years, increasing interest has been addressed on wearable devices for the continuous monitoring of biochemical profiles of patients and athletes. Among various markers, lactate represents one of the most interesting to deepen the knowledge on fati ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

Dynamical Spot Queries to Improve Specificity in P450s based Multi-Drugs Monitoring

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Andrea Cavallini, Abhishek Garg

Personalized therapy requires accurate and frequent monitoring of drugs metabolic response in living organisms during drug treatments. In case of high risk side effects, e.g. therapies with interfering anti-cancer molecules cocktails, direct monitoring of ...

2009

Platinum Nanostructured Needle-Shaped Sensors for Ion Detection in Biomedical Applications

Sandro Carrara

Ion-selective electrodes (ISEs) represent one of the main technologies for developing sensors to measure ions concentration in human tissues. All-solid-state ISEs are of key importance for sensor miniaturization, especially toward point-of-care application ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

A Wearable Real-Time System for Simultaneous Wireless Power and Data Transmission to Cortical Visual Prosthesis

Sandro Carrara, Gian Luca Barbruni, Francesca Rodino

Wireless, miniaturised and distributed neural interfaces are emerging neurotechnologies. Although extensive research efforts contribute to their technological advancement, the need for real-time systems enabling simultaneous wireless information and power ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Wearable and Battery-Free Health-Monitoring Devices With Optical Power Transfer

Sandro Carrara

Wireless epidermal wearable devices attract interests and expectations as a tool for personalized, low-cost health monitoring technology. The concept of the wireless attachable personal health monitoring devices has been more widely considered by combining ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Chip cleaning and regeneration for electrochemical sensor arrays

Sandro Carrara, Bruno Samori

Sensing systems based on electrochemical detection have generated great interest because electronic readout may replace conventional optical readout in microarray. Moreover, they offer the possibility to avoid labelling for target molecules. A typical elec ...

Elsevier2010

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

Sandro Carrara, Yihe Zhao

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

Robust Analog Multisensory Array System for Lossy Capacitive Sensors Over Long Distances

Sandro Carrara, Amar Kapic

A robust capacitive multisensory readout system is presented in this article. The system consists of a few thousand lossy capacitive-based sensors that can be modeled as a parallel connection of sensor capacitor and undesirable leakage resistance. The real ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

A System for Wireless Power Transfer and Data Communication of Long-Term Bio-Monitoring

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Catherine Dehollain, Camilla Baj-Rossi, Francesca Stradolini, Seyedeh Sara Ghoreishizadeh, Cristina Boero, Enver Gürhan Kilinç, Franco Maloberti, Stefano Riario

A system for wireless power transfer and data communication of implantable bio-monitoring systems is presented. The proposed solution uses a servo-controlled power transmitter moved under the animal moving space. An x-y movable magnetic coil transmits the ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

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

A life cycle assessment approach to minimize environmental impact for sustainable printed sensors

Sandro Carrara, Johanna Zikulnig

A printed hybrid sensor tag for applications in disposable healthcare and environmental monitoring optimized toward sustainability is presented. Following a systematic Life Cycle Assessment according to ISO 14040:2006 guidelines, the global warming potenti ...

Nature Research2025

All-in-Fiber Electrochemical Sensing

Sandro Carrara, Fabien Sorin

Electrochemical sensors have found a wide range of applications in analytical chemistry thanks to the advent of high-throughput printing technologies. However, these techniques are usually limited to two-dimensional (2D) geometry with relatively large mini ...

2021

Importance of Sex-Dependent Differences for Dosing Selection and Optimization of Chemotherapeutic Drugs

Sandro Carrara

Background: Despite major advances in cancer treatment in the past years, there is a need to optimize chemotherapeutic drug dosing strategies to reduce toxicities, suboptimal responses, and the risk of relapse. Most cancer drugs have a narrow therapeutic i ...

KARGER2024

Automatic simulation of electrochemical sensors by machine learning for drugs quantification

Sandro Carrara, Francesca Rodino, Lin Du

Multiple drug concentrations concurrent detection and quantification based on electrochemical sensors are of great importance for therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) and the development of personalized therapy. Cyclic voltammogram (CV) results obtained by el ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2024

Amperometric biosensor with nanostructured electrodes by using multi-alled carbon nanotubes for glucose detection in cell culture medium

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Cristina Boero

The monitoring of metabolic compounds such as glucose is largely reported in literature. The applications of this type of analysis are mainly related to clinical purposes, e.g. in diabetes pathology, where a lot of studies are presented in literature. Rece ...

2009

Optimized Detection of Hypoglycemic Glucose Ranges in Human Serum by Raman Spectroscopy with 532 nm Laser Excitation

Christian Enz, Sandro Carrara, Assim Boukhayma, Ata Jedari Golparvar

Raman scattering-based biomedical detection has usually been proposed with near-infrared laser sources. However, a low-cost CMOS imager's quantum efficiency is optimum around green wavelength, and their sensitivity substantially decreases in near-infrared ...

SCITEPRESS2021

A wearable electrochemical sensing system for non-invasive monitoring of lithium drug in bipolar disorder

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Irene Taurino, Francesca Criscuolo

Lithium represents the main drug for the treatment of Bipolar Disorder (BD) as it acts as a mood stabilizer. However, because of its narrow therapeutic window, psychiatric patients are obliged to frequent tests in hospital to control their lithium blood co ...

2021

In-Memory Sensing and Computing for Cancer Diagnostics: A Perspective Paper

Sandro Carrara, Ata Jedari Golparvar, Gian Luca Barbruni, Junrui Chen

During the past two decades, a number of two-terminal switching devices have been demonstrated in the literature. They typically exhibit hysteric behavior in the current-to-voltage characteristics. These devices have often been also referred to as memristi ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

A Differential Electrochemical Readout ASIC with Heterogeneous Integration of Bio-nano Sensors for Amperometric Sensing

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Irene Taurino, Seyedeh Sara Ghoreishizadeh

A Monolithic biosensing platform is presented for miniaturized amperometric electrochemical sensing in CMOS. The system consists of a fully-integrated current readout circuit for differential current measurement as well as on-die sensors developed by growi ...

2017