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

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 Needle-Shaped Electrochemical Sensor in Platinum for Robust Monitoring of Anaesthetics

Sandro Carrara, Federica Barbeni

A needle-shaped electrochemical sensor based on platinum electrodes is proposed in this paper. These platinum electrodes provide improved mechanical properties with respect to previous prototypes proposed in literature. This makes them suitable for inserti ...

IEEE2022

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

Sandro Carrara, Zhengwen Jiang, Jie Li, 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

Sustainable Printed Chitosan-Based Humidity Sensor on Flexible Biocompatible Polymer Substrate

Sandro Carrara, Johanna Zikulnig

Humidity is one of the most relevant physical parameters to sense and control for a wide range of commercial and industrial applications. Consequently, there is continuing demand for the development of innovative and sustainable humidity sensor solutions. ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Ultra-Miniaturised CMOS Current Driver for Wireless Biphasic Intracortical Microstimulation

Sandro Carrara, Diego Ghezzi, Gian Luca Barbruni

This work shows an ultra-miniaturised and ultra-low-power CMOS current driver for biphasic intracortical microstimulation. The CMOS driver is composed of a leakage-based voltage-to-current converter and an H-bridge circuit providing biphasic charge-balance ...

IEEE2022

A Novel Approach in Edge Computing: In-Memory Sensing of Cancer Markers

Sandro Carrara, Gian Luca Barbruni

We present here the first ever-reported direct computation of the cancer risk on cancer markers simultaneously detected by memristors. The novel approach in cancer diagnostics here proposed is based on the fusion of the three actions of sensing, computing ...

IEEE2022

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

Portable Multi-Frequency Impedance-Sensing Device for Bacteria Classification in a Flowing Liquid

Sandro Carrara, Karim Bouzid

This paper presents a novel impedance-sensing device and its related microfluidics system developed to characterize the macroscopical properties of bacteria and microparticles. The system is based on a phase-sensitive detector with square-waves excitation ...

IEEE2022

A 20 Mbps, 433 MHz RF ASK Transmitter to Inductively Power a Distributed Network of Miniaturised Neural Implants

Sandro Carrara, Diego Ghezzi, Gian Luca Barbruni

Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer is an emerging technique in neurotechnology. This work presents an efficient transmitter for both power transfer and downlink data communication to multiple, miniaturised and inductively-powered chips. W ...

IEEE2021

20 Years of IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL

Sandro Carrara

The IEEE Sensors Journal was born on June 1, 2001, when its first ever issue was published. The journal has grown exponentially over the past 20 years to become one of the world's largest journals in sensor engineering and technology as well as one of the ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

The Birth of a New Field: Memristive Sensors. A Review

Sandro Carrara

Over the last 11 years, the field of Memristive Sensors abruptly emerged in literature. The present review paper has the aim to acknowledge such an exciting new field of research as well as to critically review its most significant outcomes. As usual in sc ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

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

From 0.18 mu m to 28nm CMOS Down-scaling for Data Links in Body Dust Applications

Sandro Carrara, Gian Luca Barbruni

In this work, we study the effect of transistor downscaling in a wireless communication circuit for Body Dust application. The system requires a chip lateral size smaller than 10 mu m miming the typical size of a red blood cell and so, supporting free circ ...

IEEE2021

Preliminary Study of a Flexible Printed Multi-Sensing Platform for Electromyography and Lactate Measuring during Rehabilitation

Sandro Carrara

Real-time measure of muscular fatigue during physical exercise is highly demanded in fields as rehabilitation and physiotherapy, both hospital and home-based. In addition to the well-accepted features extracted from EMG measurements, an increasing interest ...

IEEE2021

The Michelangelo step: removing scalloping and tapering effects in high aspect ratio through silicon vias

Edoardo Charbon, Sandro Carrara, Simone Frasca, Rebecca Camilla Leghziel

We present here, for the first time, a fabrication technique that allows manufacturing scallop free, non-tapered, high aspect ratio in through-silicon vias (TSVs) on silicon wafers. TSVs are among major technology players in modern high-volume manufacturin ...

Nature Research2021

Integrated Potentiostat Design for Neurotransmitter Detection in Wireless Implants

Sandro Carrara

This paper presents a novel implantable electro-chemical sensor with a built-in readout circuit, with an ultimate aim of measuring dopamine levels in human striatum. The chosen material as the ultra-micro electrode (UME) of the sensor is niobium wire aroun ...

IEEE2021

Body Dust: Well Beyond Wearable and Implantable Sensors

Sandro Carrara

Over the last 20 years, the field of Smart Dust has been proposed and demonstrated. Almost in the same period, implantable and wearable sensors for human monitoring have been actually successfully introduced in the market. The present research about Smart ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

All-Solid-State Ion-Selective Electrodes: A Tutorial for Correct Practice

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Irene Taurino, Mandresy Ivan Ny Hanitra, Francesca Criscuolo

The research on ion-measuring devices has seen a rapid expansion in the last years as a consequence of the growing interest in wearable sensors for biofluids analysis and in portable devices for remote or in-line water and food quality monitoring. As a res ...

2021

Electrodes for Paracetamol Sensing Modified with Bismuth Oxide and Oxynitrate Heterostructures: An Experimental and Computational Study

Sandro Carrara, Filippo Franceschini

In this work, novel platforms for paracetamol sensing were developed by the deposition of Bi2O3, Bi5O7NO3 and their heterostructures onto screen-printed carbon-paste electrodes. An easy and scalable solid state synthesis route was employed, and by setting ...

MDPI2021

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

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