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  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,908 Views
17 Pages

4 February 2020

To harness the applicability of microribonucleic acid (miRNA) as a cancer biomarker, the detection sensitivity of serum miRNA needs to be improved. This study evaluated the detection sensitivity of miRNA hybridization using cyclic voltammograms (CVs)...

(This article belongs to the Section Biosensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,311 Views
13 Pages

Conformally Gated Surface Conducting Behaviors of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Thin-Film-Transistors

  • Kyung-Tae Kim,
  • Keon Woo Lee,
  • Sanghee Moon,
  • Joon Bee Park and ,
  • Chan-Yong Park,
  • Seung-Ji Nam,
  • Jaehyun Kim,
  • Myoung-Jae Lee,
  • Jae Sang Heo and
  • Sung Kyu Park
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

17 June 2021

Semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes (s-SWCNTs) have gathered significant interest in various emerging electronics due to their outstanding electrical and mechanical properties. Although large-area and low-cost fabrication of s-SWCNT field e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,472 Views
13 Pages

Research on a Non-Contact Multi-Electrode Voltage Sensor and Signal Processing Algorithm

  • Wenbin Zhang,
  • Yonglong Yang,
  • Jingjing Zhao,
  • Rujin Huang and ,
  • Kang Cheng and
  • Mingxing He
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

7 November 2022

Traditional contact voltage measurement requires a direct electrical connection to the system, which is not easy to install and maintain. The voltage measurement based on the electric field coupling plate capacitance structure does not need to be in...

(This article belongs to the Collection Multi-Sensor Information Fusion)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,941 Views
16 Pages

Analytic Model and the Influence of Actuator Number on the Performance of Plasma Synthetic Jet Actuator Array

  • Shengfang Huang,
  • Zhibo Zhang,
  • Huimin Song,
  • Yun Wu and ,
  • Zhengzhong Sun and
  • Yinghong Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

1 September 2018

Coupled with the multichannel discharge model and plasma synthetic jet actuator (PSJA) aerodynamic model, an analytical model to predict the performance of the PSJA array is put forward. The multichannel discharge model takes these factors into consi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Aeroacustic and Vibroacoustic Advancement in Aerospace and Automotive Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
9,344 Views
11 Pages

A Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer-Based Resonant Sensor Array for Portable Volatile Organic Compound Detection with Wireless Systems

  • Inug Yoon,
  • Gayoung Eom,
  • Sungwoo Lee,
  • Bo Kyeong Kim and ,
  • Sang Kyung Kim and
  • Hyunjoo J. Lee
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

21 March 2019

The development of portable volatile organic compound (VOC) sensors is essential for home healthcare and workplace safety because VOCs are environmental pollutants that may critically affect human health. Here, we report a compact and portable sensor...

(This article belongs to the Collection Gas Sensors)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
4,316 Views
8 Pages

Low-Voltage High-Frequency Lamb-Wave-Driven Micromotors

  • Zhaoxun Wang,
  • Wei Wei,
  • Menglun Zhang,
  • Xuexin Duan and ,
  • Quanning Li,
  • Xuejiao Chen,
  • Qingrui Yang and
  • Wei Pang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

By leveraging the benefits of a high energy density, miniaturization and integration, acoustic-wave-driven micromotors have recently emerged as powerful tools for microfluidic actuation. In this study, a Lamb-wave-driven micromotor is proposed for th...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
3,548 Views
13 Pages

8 December 2024

This study presents the fabrication and characterization of a dual-functional Pt/Ga2O3/Pt optoelectronic synaptic device, capable of operating as both a memristor and a memcapacitor. We detail the optimized radio frequency (RF) sputtering parameters,...

(This article belongs to the Collection Nanoarchitectonics of the Fourth Fundamental Electronic Component: Memristor, Meminductor and Memcapacitor)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
42 Citations
6,619 Views
17 Pages

All electrical and electronic devices require access to a suitable energy source. In a portable electronic product, such as a cell phone, an energy storage unit drives a complex array of power conversion stages to generate multiple DC voltage rails r...

(This article belongs to the Section Power Electronics)
  • Review
  • Open Access
64 Citations
15,490 Views
27 Pages

A Review on Microfluidics-Based Impedance Biosensors

  • Yu-Shih Chen,
  • Chun-Hao Huang,
  • Ping-Ching Pai,
  • Jungmok Seo and
  • Kin Fong Lei

3 January 2023

Electrical impedance biosensors are powerful and continuously being developed for various biological sensing applications. In this line, the sensitivity of impedance biosensors embedded with microfluidic technologies, such as sheath flow focusing, di...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nanometre-Scale Biosensors for Applications in Medicine/Environment/Food/Biomedical Research)
  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
4,141 Views
14 Pages

Synchronous Defect and Interface Engineering of NiMoO4 Nanowire Arrays for High-Performance Supercapacitors

  • Pengcheng Wang,
  • Xinying Ding,
  • Rongjie Zhe,
  • Ting Zhu and ,
  • Chen Qing,
  • Yingkai Liu and
  • Hong-En Wang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

26 March 2022

Developing high-performance electrode materials is in high demand for the development of supercapacitors. Herein, defect and interface engineering has been simultaneously realized in NiMoO4 nanowire arrays (NWAs) using a simple sucrose coating follow...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nanotechnologies and Nanomaterials: Selected Papers from CCMR)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,059 Views
11 Pages

Extracellular Electrophysiology in the Prostate Cancer Cell Model PC-3

  • Miguel Cabello,
  • Haobo Ge,
  • Carmen Aracil,
  • Despina Moschou and ,
  • Pedro Estrela,
  • Jose Manuel Quero,
  • Sofia I. Pascu and
  • Paulo R. F. Rocha
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

3 January 2019

Although prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in the male population, its basic biological function at a cellular level remains to be fully understood. This lack of in depth understanding of its physiology significantly hinders the devel...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors for Cell Analysis)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,674 Views
12 Pages

Particle Manipulation in 2D Space Using a Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer

  • Chang Hoon Lee,
  • Beom Hoon Park,
  • Young Hun Kim,
  • Hyeong Geun Jo and
  • Kwan Kyu Park

29 March 2022

Ultrasonic particle manipulation is a noncontact method for controlling microscale objects, such as cells or microparticles, using an acoustic field. In this study, a 2D array of capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs), placed horizon...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,987 Views
27 Pages

Design & Optimization of Large Cylindrical Radomes with Subcell and Non-Orthogonal FDTD Meshes Combined with Genetic Algorithms

  • Enrique A. Navarro,
  • Jorge A. Portí,
  • Alfonso Salinas,
  • Enrique Navarro-Modesto and ,
  • Sergio Toledo-Redondo and
  • Jesús Fornieles
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

15 September 2021

The word radome is a contraction of radar and dome. The function of radomes is to protect antennas from atmospheric agents. Radomes are closed structures that protect the antennas from environmental factors such as wind, rain, ice, sand, and ultravio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical Methods and Measurements in Antennas and Propagation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,026 Views
15 Pages

Further Investigations into the Capacitive Imaging Technique Using a Multi-Electrode Sensor

  • Zhen Li,
  • Guoming Chen,
  • Yue Gu,
  • Kefan Wang and ,
  • Wei Li and
  • Xiaokang Yin
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

19 November 2018

As a novel non-destructive testing technique, capacitive imaging (CI) has been used to detect defects within the insulation layer and metal surface of an insulated metallic structure, that is, pipe or vessel. Due to the non-linearity of the probing f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nondestructive Testing and Imaging Based on Electromagnetic Fields and Waves)
  • Article
  • Open Access
569 Views
18 Pages

23 August 2026

Flexible pressure sensors serve as core sensing components for wearable health monitoring systems, electronic skins for soft robots, and flexible human–machine interaction devices. Benefiting from the interfacial electric double-layer polarizat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Pressure Sensors)
  • Review
  • Open Access
164 Citations
19,121 Views
54 Pages

30 August 2023

This comprehensive review begins by tracing the historical development and progress of cold plasma technology as an innovative approach to polymer engineering. The study emphasizes the versatility of cold plasma derived from a variety of sources incl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Plasma Processes for Polymers II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,108 Views
13 Pages

16 September 2021

With the penetration of electric vehicles (EVs), there have been paradigm shifts in the transportation sector. EVs are ideally considered to be clean and eco-friendly, but they can overload the existing grid infrastructure and significantly contribut...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,831 Views
10 Pages

A Novel Silicon Forward-Biased PIN Mach–Zehnder Modulator with Two Operating States

  • Hang Yu,
  • Donghe Tu,
  • Xingrui Huang,
  • Yuxiang Yin and ,
  • Zhiguo Yu,
  • Huan Guan,
  • Lei Jiang and
  • Zhiyong Li
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

15 August 2023

In this paper, we demonstrate a silicon forward-biased positive intrinsic negative (PIN) Mach–Zehnder modulator (MZM), which has two operating states of high efficiency and high speed. The two operating states are switched by changing the posit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Semiconductors and Nanostructures for Electronics and Photonics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,637 Views
23 Pages

A convolutional neural network (CNN)-based image reconstruction algorithm for two-phase material imaging is presented and verified with experimental data from a capacitively coupled electrical resistance tomography (CCERT) sensor. As a contactless ve...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Regularization Techniques for Machine Learning and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
844 Views
26 Pages

Synergistic Design and Optimization of a Solar-Harvesting Energy Storage System with High-Efficiency Resonant Inductive Power Transfer

  • Ahmed Badawi,
  • Wasel Ghanem,
  • Hasan Daban,
  • Mohammed Alkhowar and ,
  • I. M. Elzein,
  • Claude Ziad El-Bayeh and
  • Tahani Alrabadi
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

7 May 2026

Integrating renewable energy harvesting with wireless power transfer (WPT) introduces complex multi-physics coupling challenges, primarily regarding thermal detuning and conversion inefficiencies within compact enclosures. This study proposes an opti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,573 Views
15 Pages

In this research work, two distinct types of three-dimensional (3D) capacitors were successfully fabricated, each with its own unique features and advantages. The first type of capacitor is centered around a 3D nanoporous structure. This structure is...

(This article belongs to the Section Nanoelectronics, Nanosensors and Devices)
  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
10,093 Views
24 Pages

Cell Monitoring and Manipulation Systems (CMMSs) based on Glass Cell-Culture Chips (GC3s)

  • Sebastian M. Buehler,
  • Marco Stubbe,
  • Sebastian M. Bonk,
  • Matthias Nissen and ,
  • Kanokkan Titipornpun,
  • Ernst-Dieter Klinkenberg,
  • Werner Baumann and
  • Jan Gimsa
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

24 June 2016

We developed different types of glass cell-culture chips (GC3s) for culturing cells for microscopic observation in open media-containing troughs or in microfluidic structures. Platinum sensor and manipulation structures were used to monitor physiolog...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Microfluidic Devices for Cell Handling and Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,482 Views
15 Pages

20 August 2020

Energy-efficient computing paradigms beyond conventional von-Neumann architecture, such as neuromorphic computing, require novel devices that enable information storage at nanoscale in an analogue way and in-memory computing. Memristive devices with...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Electronic Materials and Devices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,304 Views
23 Pages

Innovative Fabrication of Highly Efficient Cu2ZnSnS4-TiO2/TiO2 Nanotube Array Heterostructure for Efficient Organic Degradation in Basic Dye Wastewater: Experimental and RSM Approaches

  • Amal Abdulrahman,
  • Zaina Algarni,
  • Nejib Ghazouani,
  • Saad Sh. Sammen and ,
  • Abdelfattah Amari and
  • Miklas Scholz
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

7 March 2026

Titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanotube arrays (NTAs) were constructed on Ti foil to immobilize Cu2ZnSnS4-TiO2 (CZTS-T/NTAs) via the sol–gel dip-coating technique. The films were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns, field-emission scanni...

(This article belongs to the Section Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,770 Views
13 Pages

15 March 2023

Traditional thermal sterilization technology is easy to implement and safe, but it will destroy food nutrition and change food taste. Therefore, people began to turn their attention to non-thermal sterilization. High-voltage pulsed electric field ste...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,379 Views
42 Pages

Recent Advances and Prospects of FeOOH-Based Electrode Materials for Supercapacitors

  • Youness El Issmaeli,
  • Amina Lahrichi,
  • Shankara S. Kalanur,
  • Sadesh Kumar Natarajan and
  • Bruno G. Pollet

Supercapacitors (SCs) offer a potential replacement for traditional lithium-based batteries in energy-storage devices thanks to the increased power density and stable charge–discharge cycles, as well as negligible environmental impact. Given th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue High-Performance and Sustainable Supercapacitors: Current Status and Perspective)
  • Tutorial
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,019 Views
30 Pages

Graph Coloring via Locally-Active Memristor Oscillatory Networks

  • Alon Ascoli,
  • Martin Weiher,
  • Melanie Herzig,
  • Stefan Slesazeck and ,
  • Thomas Mikolajick and
  • Ronald Tetzlaff
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

This manuscript provides a comprehensive tutorial on the operating principles of a bio-inspired Cellular Nonlinear Network, leveraging the local activity of NbOx memristors to apply a spike-based computing paradigm, which is expected to deliver such...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Low Power Memory/Memristor Devices and Systems)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,836 Views
12 Pages

Effect of DNA Aptamer Concentration on the Conductivity of a Water-Gated Al:ZnO Thin-Film Transistor-Based Biosensor

  • Andrejs Ogurcovs,
  • Kevon Kadiwala,
  • Eriks Sledevskis,
  • Marina Krasovska and ,
  • Ilona Plaksenkova and
  • Edgars Butanovs
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

29 April 2022

Field-effect transistor-based biosensors (bio-FETs) are promising candidates for the rapid high-sensitivity and high-selectivity sensing of various analytes in healthcare, clinical diagnostics, and the food industry. However, bio-FETs still have seve...

(This article belongs to the Section Biosensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,785 Views
17 Pages

27 October 2018

This paper presents fabrication and packaging of a capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (CMUT) using anodically bondable low temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC). Anodic bonding of LTCC with Au vias-silicon on insulator (SOI) has been used t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nanostructure Based Sensors for Gas Sensing: from Devices to Systems)

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