We present a compact and cost-effective real-time PCR system designed for point-of-care testing (POCT), utilizing a PCB-based disposable chip and an open-platform CMOS camera. The system integrates precise thermal cycling with software-synchronized f...
Lab on Printed Circuit Boards (Lab-on-PCB) technology has emerged as a promising platform, offering miniaturization, integration, and cost-effective fabrication for a wide range of sensing applications. This review explores the most common optical de...
Lab-on-Chip is a technology that could potentially revolutionize medical Point-of-Care diagnostics. Considerable research effort is focused towards innovating production technologies that will make commercial upscaling financially viable. Printed ci...
This paper describes the fabrication opportunities that Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) offer for electronic and biomedical engineering. Historically, PCB substrates have been used to support the components of the electronic devices, linking them using...
A new radio frequency (RF) probe using pogo pin tips for integrated chip (IC) measurement up to 50 GHz is proposed. It offers high durability due to the pogo pins and meets three key design criteria for general IC measurement: (1) a 45° tilted sh...
A technology platform based on commercial printed circuit boards (PCB) technology is developed and presented. It integrates rigid flame retardant (FR)-4 boards, flexible polyimide (PI) structures, and embedded cavities for micro- and meso-scale appli...
This paper presents the first demonstration and comparison of two identical oscillator circuits employing piezoelectric zinc oxide (ZnO) microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) resonators, implemented on conventional printed-circuit-board (PCB) and thr...
Lab-on-PCB devices have been developed for many biomedical and biochemical applications. However, much work has to be done towards commercial applications. Even so, the research on devices of this kind is rapidly increasing. The reason for this lies...
Recently, the press-pack insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) has usually been used in direct current (DC) transmission. The press-pack IGBT (PPI) adopts a parallel layout of boss chips, and the currents of each chip will be uneven in the process...
Printed circuit board (PCB) technology has been recently proposed as a convenient platform for seamlessly integrating electronics and microfluidics in the same substrate, thus facilitating the introduction of integrated and low-cost microfluidic devi...
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is the most common method used for nucleic acid (DNA) amplification. The development of PCR-performing microfluidic reactors (μPCRs) has been of major importance, due to their crucial role in pathogen detection appl...
Information system security has been in the spotlight of individuals and governments in recent years. Integrated Circuits (ICs) function as the basic element of communication and information spreading, therefore they have become an important target f...
This study aims to develop a chip-based five-electrode contactless conductivity detector for miniaturized ion chromatography (IC) systems. The detector comprises a detection chip (50 mm × 25 mm × 6 mm) and a detection circuit. The detecti...
This paper presents a novel class of miniature fluxgate magnetometers fabricated on a print circuit board (PCB) substrate and electrically connected to each other similar to the current “flip chip” concept in semiconductor package. This sensor is sol...
In recent years, microelectronics technology has entered the era of nanoelectronics/integrated microsystems. System in Package (SiP) and System on Chip (SoC) are two important technical approaches for microsystems. The development of micro-system tec...
In the conventional real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) technique, DNA amplification is confirmed by quantitatively analyzing the increase in the fluorescence brightness using a fluorescent label. However, when using a fluorescence label-bas...
This paper presents a 5.8 GHz RF–DC converter for high conversion efficiency and high output voltage based on a common-ground and multiple–stack structure. An RF isolation network (RFIN) for the multiple-stack RF–DC converter is pro...
Poor chip solder joints can severely affect the quality of the finished printed circuit boards (PCBs). Due to the diversity of solder joint defects and the scarcity of anomaly data, it is a challenging task to automatically and accurately detect all...
As one of the most popular research hotspot of lab-on-chip, digital microfluidic (DMF) technology based on the principle of electrowetting has unique advantages of high-precision, low cost and programmable control. However, due to the limitation of e...
Surface defect detection in chips is crucial for ensuring product quality and reliability. This paper addresses the challenge of low identification accuracy in chip surface defect detection, which arises from the similarity of defect characteristics,...
A three-axis accelerometer with a double L-shaped beams structure was designed and fabricated in this paper, consisting of a supporting body, four double L-shaped beams and intermediate double beams connected to two mass blocks. When applying acceler...
We present aluminum nitride (AlN) on silicon (Si) CMOS-compatible piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers (pMUTs) with an extended detection range of up to 140 cm for touchless sensing applications. The reported performance surpasses the c...
Modern Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) image sensors, aimed to target low-noise and fast digital outputs, are fundamentally based on column-parallel structures, jointly designed with oversampling column converters. The typical choice f...
In this paper, a method of extracting the junction temperature based on the turn-on current switching rate (dIDS/dt) of silicon carbide (SiC) metal-oxide semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs) is proposed. The temperature dependence of dIDS...
Analog neuromorphic prototyping is essential for designing and testing spiking neuron models that use memristive devices as synapses. These prototypes can have various circuit configurations, implying different response behaviors that custom silicon...
A silicon-on-insulator (SOI) piezoresistive three-axis acceleration sensor, consisting of four L-shaped beams, two intermediate double beams, two masses, and twelve piezoresistors, was presented in this work. To detect the acceleration vector (ax, ay...
An acceleration sensor based on piezoelectric thin films is proposed in this paper, which comprises the elastic element of a silicon cantilever beam and a piezoelectric structure with Li-doped ZnO piezoelectric thin films. The Li-doped ZnO piezoelect...
This paper presents a 2-stage GaN Doherty power amplifier module (DPAM) on a compact
A novel piezoelectric energy harvester with multi-resonant frequencies based on Li-doped ZnO (LZO) thin films is proposed in this paper, consisting of an elastic element with three (or more) different length cantilever beam arrays and a piezoelectric...
A monolithically-integrated two-dimensional (2D) magnetic field sensor consisting of two difference structures (DSІ and DSII) is proposed in this paper. The DSІ and DSII are composed of four silicon magnetic sensitive transistors (SMST1, SMST2, SMST3...
A piezoresistive pressure sensor with a beam-membrane-dual-island structure is developed for micro-pressure monitoring in the field of aviation, which requires great sensitivity and overload resistance capacity. The design, fabrication, and test of t...
The world urgently needs new methods to quickly and efficiently detect mutated viruses. An RNA-AuNP-based colorimetric biosensor is a highly sensitive, specific, and cost-effective tool that enables rapid, visual detection of target molecules for app...
To treat retinal degenerative diseases, a transcorneal electrical stimulation-based system is proposed, which consists of an eye implant and an external component. The eye implant is wirelessly powered and controlled by the external component to gene...
The problem of thermal modeling of modern three-dimensional (3D) integrated circuit (IC) systems in packages (SiPs) is discussed. An effective quasi-3D (Q3D) approach of thermal design is proposed taking into account the specific character of 3D IC s...
In this paper, a new low complexity and lossless image compression system for capsule endoscopy (CE) is presented. The compressor consists of a low-cost YEF color space converter and variable-length predictive with a combination of Golomb-Rice and un...
In this study, we developed a single-channel channel emulator module with an operating frequency covering 66–67 GHz, including a 66–76 GHz wide dynamic range monolithic integrated circuit designed based on 0.1 µm pHEMT GaAs process,...
Amplification of wideband high-frequency and microwave signals is a fundamental element within every high-frequency circuit and device. Ultra-wideband (UWB) sensor applications use circuits designed for their specific application. The article present...
This work presents a wearable sensing system for high-density resistive array readout. The system comprising readout electronics for a high-density resistive sensor array and a rechargeable battery, was realized in a wristband. The analyzed data with...
This article presents the development of a compact, high-precision, and energy-efficient temperature monitoring system designed for tracking applications where continuous and accurate thermal monitoring is essential. Built around the HY0020 System-on...
Touch is a crucial sense for advanced organisms, particularly humans, as it provides essential information about the shape, size, and texture of contacting objects. In robotics and automation, the integration of tactile sensors has become increasingl...
This study introduces an energy-aware hybrid security framework that safeguards embedded systems against code theft, closing a critical gap. The approach integrates bitstream encryption, dynamic key generation, and Dynamic Function eXchange (DFX)-bas...
The development of wake-up receivers (WuR) has recently received a lot of interest from both academia and industry researchers, primarily because of their major impact on the improvement of the performance of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In this...