An electrical field sensor for micro/nano particles detection applications

Author

Ibrahim, Mohamed F. ; Elsayed, Fahmi ; Ghallab, Yehya H. ; Badawy, Wael

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

fYear

2009

fDate

15-17 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper presents an electrical field sensor, which can be used in both biomedical applications and cell characterization. The lab-on-chip contains two main parts: (1) A CMOS lab-on-chip integrated circuit (IC) which is based on 0.18 Â¿m technology and includes the sensing and actuation parts, (2) a printed circuit board which contains the amplifications and conditioning parts. Experimental result shows that the automated lab-on-chip is a good candidate for biomedical applications, such as in the DNA analysis, to detect the radius of the DNA molecule, and in cancer research area, to help in selecting the suitable antibody for cancer treatment.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; biomedical electronics; electric field measurement; lab-on-a-chip; CMOS lab-on-chip integrated circuit; DNA; cancer; electrical field sensor; micro/nano particles detection; printed circuit board; size 0.18 mum; Automatic control; Biosensors; Circuits; DNA; Digital control; FETs; Lab-on-a-chip; Nonuniform electric fields; Sensor arrays; Sensor phenomena and characterization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Design and Test Workshop (IDT), 2009 4th International

Conference_Location

Riyadh

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5748-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IDT.2009.5404148

Filename

5404148