We report a novel biodegradable piezoelectric composite fabricated from paper and the piezoelectric salt, sodium potassium tartrate tetrahydrate (Rochelle salt, which we term PiezoSalt). The piezoelectric composite is non-toxic and is fabricated free of en ...

Elsevier2016

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

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

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

Recent Advances in Printed Sensors on Foil

Danick Briand, Giorgio Mattana

In this review paper, we summarise the status and trends in the research and development of printed sensors on foil substrates. Our focus includes sensor technologies that have some of their elements printed with a special interest for fully printed struct ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2016

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

Green piezoelectric for autonomous smart textile

Danick Briand, Christopher John Borsa, Etienne Pierre Lemaire

In this work, the fabrication of Rochelle salt based piezoelectric textiles are shown. Structures composed of fibers and Rochelle salt are easily produced using green processes. Both manufacturing and the material itself are really efficient in terms of en ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Room temperature Si-Ti thermopile THz sensor

Danick Briand

In this paper, we present the conception, fabrication and characterization of a thermopile designed to detect terahertz electromagnetic fields at room temperature. The thermopile is made of four doped silicon/titanium thermocouples. The absorber consists o ...

Springer Verlag2015

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

DC and AC scanning thermal microscopy using micro-thermoelectric probe

Danick Briand

A scanning thermal microscope working in passive mode is described. This tool uses a thermocouple probe and is presented as a thermal imaging system. The surface temperature distribution of a thermal micro-component is presented. We point out the capacity ...

Old City Publishing2014

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

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

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

Study of bending reliability and electrical properties of platinum lines on flexible polyimide substrates

Nico de Rooij, Jérôme Courbat, Francisco Molina Lopez, Danick Briand

We have experimentally studied the variation in electrical resistance of flexible platinum lines patterned on polyimide foil when they are subjected to circular bending constraints. The lines were patterned by means of standard photolithography and sputter ...

Elsevier2014

Printed capacitive sensing device

Nico de Rooij, Danick Briand

Capacitive-based sensing device comprising an organic substrate, a sensing layer and two printed/additively deposited planar electrodes, said sensing layer being separated from the substrate by at least one separating layer. ...

2014

A Wearable System Of Micromachined Piezoelectric Cantilevers Coupled To A Rotational Oscillating Mass For On-Body Energy Harvesting

Nico de Rooij, Robert Andrew Lockhart, Danick Briand, Pattanaphong Janphuang

In this paper, we present a compact, wearable piezoelectric on-body harvesting system that uses a small eccentric mass from a common watch movement to mechanically deflect a set of micromachined piezoelectric cantilevers when excited by the low frequency m ...

IEEE2014

Development of a New Generation of Ammonia Sensors on Printed Polymeric Hotplates

Nico de Rooij, Francisco Molina Lopez, Danick Briand, Andres Felipe Vasquez Quintero, El Hadji Malick Camara

Conducting polyaniline-based chemiresistors on printed polymeric micro-hotplates were developed, showing sensitive and selective detection of ammonia vapor in air. The devices consist of a fully inkjet-printed silver heater and interdigitated electrodes on ...

American Chemical Society2014

Printing And Encapsulation Of Electrical Conductors On Polylactic Acid (Pla) For Sensing Applications

Nico de Rooij, Danick Briand, Andres Felipe Vasquez Quintero, Giorgio Mattana, Alexis Pierre Henri Marette, Nathalie Frolet

This paper presents the printing of resistive and interdigitated (IDE) capacitive devices for temperature and humidity sensing applications, respectively, on biodegradable polylactic acid (PLA) substrates. Inkjet and gravure printing were evaluated to tran ...

IEEE2014

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