Publications related to Ultra-Low Power Ion-Sensing Smart Platform for Noninvasive Healthcare Applications

The role of spatial epidemiology to support public health policies : case studies applied to health promotion, noncommunicable and infectious diseases in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland

In a context of escalating public health challenges, including the rise of chronic diseases, the impact of climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic, certain populations bear a disproportionate burden. As a result, there is an urgent need to develop public ...

EPFL2024

Different health systems-Different mortality outcomes? Regional disparities in avoidable mortality across German-speaking Europe, 1992-2019

Mathias Lerch

Background: Evaluating the impact of health systems on premature mortality across different countries is a very challenging task, as it is hardly possible to disentangle it from the influence of contextual factors such as cultural differences. In this resp ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023

Designing self-tracking experiences: A qualitative study of the perceptions of barriers and facilitators to adopting digital health technology for automatic urine analysis at home

Nicolas Henchoz, Delphine Ribes Lemay, Emily Clare Groves, Andrea Regula Schneider, Margherita Motta

Self-tracking technologies open new doors to previously unimaginable scenarios. The diagnosis of diseases years in advance, or supporting the health of astronauts on missions to Mars are just some of many example applications. During the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

2023

Integrated silicon photonic MEMS

Niels Quack, Hamed Sattari, Alain Yuji Takabayashi

Silicon photonics has emerged as a mature technology that is expected to play a key role in critical emerging applications, including very high data rate optical communications, distance sensing for autonomous vehicles, photonic-accelerated computing, and ...

SPRINGERNATURE2023

Real-time Personalized Monitoring of Neurological Disorders on Wearable Systems

Renato Zanetti

The terminology of neurological disorders encompasses a range of serious illnesses (e.g., epilepsy, Alzheimer's disease) leading to morbidity, disability, and stigma. Epilepsy alone affects over 50 million people worldwide, and these figures are rising as ...

EPFL2023

Front-End Circuits for Radiation-Hard Monolithic CMOS Sensors targeting High-Energy Physics Applications

Francesco Piro

Monolithic pixel sensors integrate the sensor matrix and readout in the same silicon die, and therefore present several advantages over the more largely used hybrid detectors in high-energy physics. They offer an easier detector assembly, lower cost, lower ...

EPFL2023

Spatial analysis of the Healthy Built Environment: an application on Cardiovascular Risk Factors in the canton of Geneva

Andrea Salmi

Most of the world population lives in urban areas, the share of the urban population is estimated to increase in the future decades. The complexity of different land uses and services in urban areas, which composes the built environment, influences human h ...

EPFL2022

Estimating Auxiliary Power Supply Consumption of the Modular Multilevel Converter Submodule for the Condition Health Monitoring

Drazen Dujic, Ignacio Alejandro Polanco Lobos

Condition health monitoring strategies applied to different power electronics applications are gaining popularity as early component degradation detection can trigger preventive maintenance actions before a significant fault occurs. In highly modular conve ...

2022

A new versatile hybrid MEMS technology for high sensitivity, fluid proof sensing applications

Matthias Neuenschwander

The field of micro electromechanical systems (MEMS) evolved from the microelectronic industry and the technologies developed to fabricate integrated circuits. As a result, MEMS are commonly fabricated on silicon wafers. The development of MEMS has been dri ...

EPFL2022

Contactless Sleep Monitoring for Early Detection of Health Deteriorations in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Exploratory Study

Philipp Buluschek, Daniel Gatica-Perez, Bruno Pais

Background: Population aging is posing multiple social and economic challenges to society. One such challenge is the social and economic burden related to increased health care expenditure caused by early institutionalizations. The use of modern pervasive ...

JMIR PUBLICATIONS, INC2021

Wafer-Level Vacuum Sealing for Packaging of Silicon Photonic MEMS

Niels Quack, Göran Stemme, Hamed Sattari, Alain Yuji Takabayashi

Silicon (Si) photonic micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), with its low-power phase shifters and tunable couplers, is emerging as a promising technology for large-scale reconfigurable photonics with potential applications for example in photonic accele ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2021

Wafer-scale fabrication of ultralow-loss silicon nitride nonlinear photonic circuits

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Maxim Karpov, Junqiu Liu, Miles Henry Anderson, Arslan Sajid Raja, Nils Johan Engelsen, Wenle Weng, Anton Lukashchuk, Guanhao Huang, Jijun He, Mikhail Churaev, Anat Siddharth, Alexey Tikan

Recent advances in silicon nitride integrated photonics have achieved ultralow optical losses. Transferring this technology to standard commercial foundries, and merging it with silicon photonics via heterogeneous integration, will seed novel laser and qua ...

IEEE2020

Low Power Sensing and Processing in Wearable Biomedical Devices for Personalized Health Monitoring

Grégoire Casimir Joseph Surrel

Whether it is for personal use or for medical application, wearable sensors are becoming more and more widespread. This is the industry answer to two parallel trends. First, the public show a wish to collect data about their own lifestyle. This rather new ...

EPFL2019

Overlapping spatial clusters of sugar-sweetened beverage intake and body mass index in Geneva state, Switzerland

Stéphane Joost, Beatrice Bacchilega, David Nicolas De Ridder, Idris Guessous

Background: Obesity and obesity-related diseases represent a major public health concern. Recently, studies have substantiated the role of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) consumption in the development of these diseases.The fine identification of populati ...

Springer2019

5 GHz Band n79 wideband microacoustic filter using thin lithium niobate membrane

Victor Plessky, Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Soumya Yandrapalli, Bruno Garcia

Microacoustic resonators made on suspended continuous membranes of LiNbO3 were recently shown to have very strong coupling and low losses at >= 5 GHz, suitable for high-performance filter design. Employing these simple resonator structures, the authors hav ...

2019

Three-Dimensional Integrated Ultra-Low-Volume Passive Microfluidics with Ion-Sensitive Field-Effect Transistors for Multiparameter Wearable Sweat Analyzers

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Fabien Patrick Wildhaber, Johan Frédéric Longo, Hoël Maxime Guérin, Erick Antonio Garcia Cordero, Junrui Zhang, Francesco Bellando

Wearable systems could offer noninvasive and real-time solutions for monitoring of biomarkers in human sweat as an alternative to blood testing. Recent studies have demonstrated that the concentration of certain biomarkers in sweat can be directly correlat ...

2018

Cyber-Medical Systems: Requirements, Components and Design Examples

Giovanni De Micheli

Cyber-medical systems will produce a major revolution in health care, by both raising the quality of care and reducing its cost, thus reaching an important social and economic goal. The evolution of electronic devices and systems has already enabled societ ...

2017

Signal Processing Approaches for Cardio-Respiratory Biosignals with an Emphasis on Mobile Health Applications

Leila Mirmohamadsadeghi

We humans are constantly preoccupied with our health and physiological status. From precise measurements such as the 12-lead electrocardiograms recorded in hospitals, we have moved on to mobile acquisition devices, now as versatile as smart-watches and sma ...

EPFL2017

Copper TSV-Based Process Development for Die-Level Homogeneous and Heterogeneous 3D Integration Platform

Seniz Esra Küçük

Research and development efforts on chip and wafer-scale 3D integration for system miniaturization have been continuing for more than a decade. However, there are still only a handful of 3D integrated products available in the market due to the high cost a ...

EPFL2017

Principle and modelling of Transient Current Technique for interface traps characterization in monolithic pixel detectors obtained by CMOS-compatible wafer bonding

Jean-Michel Sallese, Alessandro Mapelli

In the framework of monolithic silicon radiation detectors, a fabrication process based on a recently developed silicon wafer bonding technique at low temperature was proposed. Ideally, this new process would enable direct bonding of a read-out electronic ...

Institute of Physics2016