Integrated Microfluidic CMOS (imCMOS) Sensors and Actuators for Life Science Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Recent advances in Integrated Microfluidic CMOS (imCMOS) technologies have attracted the attentions of various life-science applications. Owing to the seminal advances in microfludics and microelectronics, imCMOS is moving towards massively parallel, miniaturized, and label free platforms. The state-of-the-art DNA sequencing platform featuring millions of Ion-Selective Field Effect Transistors (ISFETs) has convincingly demonstrated the advantage of using standard microelectronic technologies, such as Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) processes. Similarly, many researchers addressed the challenge of developing imCMOS systems for monitoring cellular and molecular activities on a single chip. Due to the significant advantages of CMOS-based biological sensors and actuators, such as non-invasive long-term recordings, fast response and label free process, they have been widely applied in many biological and medical fields concerning the studying of the living-cell samples such as neural cell recording and stimulation, monitoring metabolic activity, cell manipulation, and extracellular pH monitoring. This Special Issue covers the recent advances in imCMOS research, including the design and implementation of CMOS chips, microfluidic packaging and biological experiments related to cellular and molecular biology.

Topics:

We invite investigators to contribute original research articles, as well as review articles, to this Special Issue. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

1. CMOS circuit design, modeling, simulation and implementation, post-CMOS processing for life science applications
2. Microfluidic packaging of CMOS sensors
3. CMOS sensor arrays
4. CMOS capacitive sensors for cellular and molecularapplications
5. CMOS optical sensors
6. CMOS impedance sensors
7. CMOS ISFET sensors
8. CMOS cantilever sensors
9. CMOS magnetic sensors
10. CMOS nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) sensors
11. CMOS magnetic manipulators
12. CMOS dielectrophoretic manipulator
13. CMOS electrophoresis manipulators
14. High throughput CMOS screening
15. Lab-on-CMOS
16. CMOS sensors and actuators for In-vitro neuronal recording
17. CMOS sensors for drug screening
18. CMOS sensors and actuators for cellular growth monitoring
19. CMOS sensors and actuators for cellular viability analysis
20. CMOS sensors and actuators for DNA sequencing
21. CMOS sensors and actuators for tracking the proliferation of cancer cells
22. CMOS sensors and actuators for microbiological applications
23. CMOS sensors and actuators for genetic applications
24. CMOS sensors and actuators for cancer biology
25. CMOS sensors and actuators for tissue engineering applications
26. CMOS sensors and actuators for environmental applications
27. CMOS sensors and actuators for microbiological applications
28. CMOS sensors and actuators for chemical applications
29. CMOS sensors and actuators for biological laboratory automation

Dr. Ebrahim Ghafar-Zadeh
Guest Editor

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