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Towards Scalable Electronics: Synthetic 2D Materials for Large-Area 2D Circuit Integration

In the past decades, a significant increase of the transistor density on a chip has led to exponential growth in computational power driven by Moore's law. To overcome the bottleneck of traditional von-Neumann architecture in computational efficiency, effo ...

EPFL2024

Electronic readout of DNA amplification in nanoliter chambers. Strategies towards highly parallel semiconductor-based nucleic acid amplification testing

Saurabh Tomar

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has been the most significant driver in the field of nucleic acid testing (NAT) since its invention. Popularized as an abbreviation by the Covid-19 pandemic, PCR-based methods are the gold standard in the field of diagnostic ...

EPFL2023

Piezoelectric suspended microchannel resonators

Damien Maillard

The objective of this PhD thesis is the development of a microfluidic platform for the real-time measurements of the mechanical properties of biological analytes at the single entity level. The systems developed for these purposes consist of piezoelectrica ...

EPFL2022

Microfluidic systems for in-flow bioanalytes collection

Pierre-Emmanuel Marie Thiriet

Microfluidic is an ensemble of technologies and methods that permits the handling and analysis of minute volumes of samples in short timescales. Since its introduction it revealed a remarkable potential to unveil novel biological mechanisms. The small volu ...

EPFL2022

High Throughput-Per-Footprint Inertial Focusing

Martinus Adela Maria Gijs, Ata Tuna Ciftlik

Matching the scale of microfluidic flow systems with that of microelectronic chips for realizing monolithically integrated systems still needs to be accomplished. However, this is appealing only if such re-scaling does not compromise the fluidic throughput ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2013

Opportunities for high-pressure microfluidics in biomedical applications

Ata Tuna Ciftlik

Pressure lies at the basis of operation of most microfluidic systems, and is a determinant factor in the extent of miniaturization and in limiting the throughput and time constant of the microfluidic assays. Despite the apparent importance given to fluidic ...

EPFL2013

A miniaturised autonomous sensor based on nanowire materials platform: the SiNAPS mote

Maher Kayal, Naser Khosro Pour

A micro-power energy harvesting system based on core(crystalline Si)-shell(amorphous Si) nanowire solar cells together with a nanowire-modified CMOS sensing platform have been developed to be used in a dust-sized autonomous chemical sensor node. The mote ( ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2013

Inkjet Printing of Complex Soft Machines with Densely Integrated Electrostatic Actuators

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Samuel Schlatter, Giulio Grasso

A multimaterial inkjet printing method for integrated soft multifunctional machines is reported, combining dense arrays of electrostatic actuators, multilayer electrical routing, and complex networks of microfluidic channels in one printing process. Most a ...

2020

3D Integration Technology for Lab-on-a-Chip Applications

Yüksel Temiz

This study adds a new dimension to lab-on-a-chip systems by employing three-dimensional (3D) integration technology for improved performance, higher functionality, and on-chip computational power. Despite the extensive amount of current research on 3D memo ...

EPFL2012

Very High Throughput Electrical Cell Lysis and Extraction of Intracellular Compounds Using 3D Carbon Electrodes in Lab-on-a-Chip Devices

Rodrigo Martinez Duarte, Philippe Renaud, Freddy Radtke, Rajwinder Lehal

Here we present an electrical lysis throughput of 600 microliters per minute at high cell density (108 yeast cells per ml) with 90% efficiency, thus improving the current common throughput of one microliter per minute. We also demonstrate the extraction of ...

2012

Embedded Microchannel Cooling for High Power-Density GaN-on-Si Power Integrated Circuits

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Luca Nela, Remco Franciscus Peter van Erp, Reza Soleiman Zadeh Ardebili, Georgios Kampitsis

In this work, we demonstrate a new thermal management approach for direct cooling of GaN-on-Si power integrated circuits (ICs), in which the Si substrate functions as a microfluidic heat sink, turning Si into a cost-effective, high thermal performance subs ...

IEEE2020

Low-Noise, High-Density Microelectronics for Multi-Mode Screening of Excitable Biological Cells

Urs Alexander Müller

In the past decades, two recording tools have established themselves as the working horses in the field of electrophysiological cell research: the microelectrode array (MEA) and the optical fluorescence imaging. The former is a grid of miniature electrodes ...

EPFL2012

Microfluidic and micromechanical in vivo studies of Caenorhabditis elegans

Roger Philippe Krenger

Caenorhabditis elegans is one of the most attractive model organisms in biomedical research for understanding human diseases and for drug testing at a whole-organism level, since many biological pathways and genes have been conserved between itself and hum ...

EPFL2019

Material and Electrical study of HfO2-Based Resistive Random Access Memories (ReRAMs)

Behnoush Attarimashalkoubeh

Resistive Random Access Memories (ReRAMs) have been researched intensively in the last past decades as a promising alternatives technology for the next-generation non-volatile memory (NVM) devices. ReRAMâ s excellent performance properties such as high sw ...

EPFL2019

Development of Elastomeric Optofluidic Devices for Lasing and Sensing

Wuzhou Song

The term of optofluidics defines an emergent research field that combines microfluidics and optics. In many lab-on-a-chip applications, these two technologies are used in combining the microfluidics for sample delivery and optics for sensing and controllin ...

EPFL2012

Parylene to silicon nitride bonding for post-integration of high pressure microfluidics to CMOS devices

Martinus Adela Maria Gijs, Ata Tuna Ciftlik

High pressure-rated channels allow microfluidic assays to be performed on a smaller footprint while keeping the throughput, thanks to the higher enabled flow rates, opening perspectives for cost-effective integration of CMOS chips to microfluidics circuits ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2012

Integration of microfluidics and multimodal optics for translational bioanalytics

Daniel Migliozzi

Numerous analytical techniques for life sciences have been at the basis of the improvement of medical diagnostics and treatments. Current challenges in bioanalytics are related to the conception of methods enabling large amount of information to be extract ...

EPFL2019

Lab-on-a-chip technologies for manipulation and imaging of C. elegans worms and embryos

Li Dong

The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is an attractive model organism, owing notably to its short life cycle, genetic tractability, and optical transparency facilitating microscopic observation. This thesis deals with the realization of technological tools f ...

EPFL2018

Low-Power Circuits and Systems Design for Data Acquisition and Transmission in a Wireless Cortical Implant

Vahid Majidzadeh Bafar

Minimally invasive monitoring of the electrical activity of specific cortical areas using implantable microsystems offers the promise of diagnosing neurological diseases, as well as detecting and identifying neural activity patterns which are specific to a ...

EPFL2012

Impedance-based real-time position sensor for lab-on-a-chip devices

Philippe Renaud, Harald Van Lintel, Jonathan Bastien Cottet

This paper presents the theoretical and experimental development of an integrated position sensor for lab-on-a-chip devices. The interest for single cell analysis is growing. However, this requires monitoring and controlling cell displacements in real time ...

2018