Medical & Bio

better understanding of the underlying principles of the human brain and root causes of its malfunctions. The majority of the ongoing research is conducted on animal models and there is a considerable demand for microsys

Illinois State University, Normal, IL 1 2 Neurons communicate both electrically and chemically [1]. Extensive effort has been directed at monitoring these signals in awake animals to investigate the neural basis of behav

Genetic engineering of mice DNA sequences, together with in vivo real-time blood pressure measurement is crucial for identifying an animal’s genetic variation susceptibility to cardiovascular-related diseases. However, t

architecture, which uses a single resistor ladder to produce a set of internal reference busses. These references are generated as the inverse of the LCD response in order to compensate the LCD pixel’s nonlinear characte

modulation (PAM) in AMOLED displays. Current driving methods have advantages over voltage driving schemes including improvement of luminance uniformity at display panels and compensation of TFT characteristics at pixels

Analog Devices, Wilmington, MA, 2University of California, Berkeley, CA The display industry is booming as high-performance displays become the main user interface in every mobile device. The current trend toward higher

Corporation, Kanagawa, Japan 2 A fingerprint sensor that integrates fraud detection and fingerprint sensing to prevent spoofing with a fake (artificial) finger is presented. Fingerprint identification using capacitive fi

ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, 2Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA We report on a CMOS-based microsensor array, featuring 576 electrodes and 24 channels, for label-free electrochemical detection of DNA hybrid

Erdan Gu2, David R. Renshaw1, Edoardo Charbon3, Martin D. Dawson2, Robert K. Henderson1 1 University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom 3 Ecole Polytechnique Fédéra

U. Leuven, Leuven, Belgium A crucial and important part of a medical diagnostics system is the monitoring of the biopotential signals. This paper describes a complete low-power EEG acquisition ASIC that is suitable for m

tanh function [6] so it simplifies offset calibration to suppress distortion while preserving phase information for cross-channel coherence analysis. Both techniques eliminate the phase sensitivity between the neuronal s