2020
Alexander Castro, Leo Peckerar, Timothy Horiuchi, Pamela Abshire
A nano-quadcopter system that performs odor detection in a windless indoor environment. The system uses the Crazyflie platform and incorporates a single commercially available metal oxide semiconductor gas sensor. The authors demonstrate that rotor-induced airflow enhances odor detection. It can be considered to be the quadrotor equivalent of sniffing behavior.
2020 IEEE SENSORS Conference
Pamela Abshire and 32 others
This paper shows that even failed attempts are genuine and valuable contributions to our field provided that we learn from our mistakes and correct them. The 27 confessions span from planning oversights, digital and analog design errors, misunderstanding of devices, overlooked parasitics, LVS errors, and troubles in testing.
2020 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
2019
Bathiya Senevirathna, Sheung Luhave, Elisabeth Smela, Pamela Abshire
The first real-time imaging platform that generates high-quality images of lab-on-CMOS systems in cell culture environments.
2019 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS)
2021
Ryan Huiszoon, Jinjing Han, Sangwook Chu, Justin Stine, Luke Beardslee, Reza Ghodssi
This work introduces an integrated system incorporated seamlessly with a commercial Foley urinary catheter for bacterial growth sensing and biofilm treatment.
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
Adam Brown, Sangwook Chu, Madhu Kappagantu, Reza Ghodssi, James Culver
The self-assembly system of the rod-shaped tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) has been studied extensively for nanoscale applications. TMV coat protein assembly is modulated by intersubunit carboxylate groups whose electrostatic repulsion limits the assembly of virus rods without incorporating genomic RNA. To engineer assembly control into this system, the authors reprogrammed intersubunit carboxylate interactions to produce self-assembling coat proteins in the absence of RNA and in response to unique pH and ionic environmental conditions.
ACS Biomacromolecules
2020
Ashley Chapin, Pradeep Rajasekaran, David Quan, Liangbing Hu, Jens Herberholz, William Bentley, Reza Ghodssi
Develops a platform that provides access to the specific site of serotonin production, important because serotonin is secreted from the bottoms of cells. An innovative porous membrane with an integrated serotonin sensor on which a model of the gut lining can be grown allowed researchers to access both top and bottom sides of the cell culture.
Microsystems & Nanoengineering (a Nature publication)
Ashley Chapin, Jinjing Han, Ta-Wen Ho, Jens Herberholz, Reza Ghodssi
An integrated electrochemical and electrophysiological biomonitoring system, enabling the study of molecular signaling along the gut-brain-axis (GBA).
Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems
Pradeep Rajasekaran, Ashley Chapin, David Quan, Jens Herberholz, William Bentley, Reza Ghodssi
Explores the development of a 3D-printed housing, the maintenance of a healthy lab-on-a-chip gut cell culture, and the evaluation of the two types of sensors integrated on the cell culture membrane.
Microsystems & Nanoengineering (a Nature publication)
Justin Stine, Luke Beardslee, Sangwook Chu, Sanwei Liu, Dana Motabar, William Bentley, Reza Ghodssi
The bPod prototype developed in the S&A paper is reduced to the size of a cherry. This research significantly advances the PCB-electronics design, DO sensor, and packaging to achieve the overall system miniaturization desired for use in realistic bioreactor environments.
Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems
Justin Stine, Luke Beardslee, Rajendra Sathyam, William Bentley, Reza Ghodssi
The researchers develop a golf ball-sized bioprocessing online device (bPod) capable of real-time in situ monitoring of bioreactor cell culture parameters, such as dissolved oxygen.
Sensors & Actuators B: Chemical
George Banis, Ragendramayavan Sathyam, Luke Beardslee, Justin Stine, Reza Ghodssi
Describes an integrated ingestible capsule sensing system with triglyceride film-coated capacitive sensors that can measure biochemical species such as pancreatic lipase and bile acids in the duodenum. The microfabricated capacitive sensors communicate via a Bluetooth low-energy (BLE)-microcontroller, which allows wireless connectivity to a mobile app.
Lab on a Chip
Luke Beardslee, George Banis, Sangwook Chu, Sanwei Liu, Ashley Chapin, Justin Stine, Pankaj Pasricha, Reza Ghodssi
This review examines the conventional techniques, as well as ingestible sensors and sensing systems that are currently under development for use in disease screening and diagnosis for GI disorders. Design considerations, fabrication, and applications are discussed.
ACS Sensors
2019
Sowmya Subramanian, Ryan Huiszoon, Sangwook Chu, William Bentley, Reza Ghodssi
A review that focuses on several types of microsystems for biofilm evaluation including optical, electro-chemical, and mechanical systems. This review will show how these devices can lead to better understanding of the physiology and function of these communities of bacteria, which can eventually lead to the development of novel treatments that do not rely on high-dosage antibiotics.
Biofilm
Sangwook Chu, Adam Brown, James Culver, Reza Ghodssi
Research into Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV)-based assembly of glucose oxidase electrodes for the development of advanced enzymatic biofuel cells (EBCs).
PowerMEMS 2018: Journal of Physics Conference Series, IOP Publishing
2020
Alexander Castro, Leo Peckerar, Timothy Horiuchi, Pamela Abshire
A nano-quadcopter system that performs odor detection in a windless indoor environment. The system uses the Crazyflie platform and incorporates a single commercially available metal oxide semiconductor gas sensor. The authors demonstrate that rotor-induced airflow enhances odor detection. It can be considered to be the quadrotor equivalent of sniffing behavior.
2020 IEEE SENSORS Conference
2019
Bathiya Senevirathna, Sheung Luhave, Elisabeth Smela, Pamela Abshire
The first real-time imaging platform that generates high-quality images of lab-on-CMOS systems in cell culture environments.
2019 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS)
