Dielectric-loaded plasmonic waveguides are perfectly suitable for on-chip sensing of fluids. They allow long propagation length and large mode overlaps above 96% with a the analyte. Dielectric-loading is a alternative approach to increase the confinement of mid-infrared surface plasmons without the need for sub-wavelength patterning. Direct excitation and detection is realized using chip integr...

A fully-integrated lab-on-a-chip device for testing and monitoring biochemical parameters is described. The major innovation of this microdevice is the application of acoustic microagitation based on a β-PVDF piezoelectric polymer. The system parameters were optimized for an effective and rapid mixing.

Microfluidic lab-on-a-chip allows chemical and biochemical analysis to be conducted in a miniaturized system. Miniaturized analysis reduces the reagent consumption while decreasing the overall size of the device, but the small dose of the sample make detection more demanding and is more sensitive to adsorption of species on the surface. Integration of carbon nanotubes into microfludic devices i...

A review is presented of advances and challenges in fully integrated systems for personalised medicine applications. One key issue for the commercialisation of such systems is the disposability of the assay-substrate at a low cost. This work adds a new dimension to the integrated circuits technology for lab-on-a-chip systems by employing 3D integration for improved performance and functionality...

Combining integrated circuitry with microfluidics enables lab-on-a-chip (LOC) devices to perform sensing, freeing them from benchtop equipment. However, this integration is challenging with small chips, as is briefly reviewed with reference to key metrics for package comparison. In this paper we present a simple packaging method for including mm-sized, foundry-fabricated dies containing complem...

World-to-chip (macro-to-micro) interface continues to be one of the most complicated, ineffective, and unreliable components in the development of emerging lab-on-a-chip systems involving integrated microfluidic operations. A number of irreversible (e.g., adhesive gluing) and reversible techniques (e.g., press fitting) have attempted to provide dedicated fluidic passage from standard tubing to ...

A Scalable hierarchical architecture based Code-Division Multiple Access (CDMA) is proposed for high performance Network-on-Chip (NoC). This hierarchical architecture provides the integration of a large number of IPs in a single on-chip system. The network encoding and decoding schemes for CDMA transmission are provided. The proposed CDMA NoC architecture is compared to the conventional archite...

Nowadays, with technology shrinking and the huge demand for supporting multiple applications has led designers to use multiple IP cores within a single chip. Therefore, the designers have proposed Networks-on-chip to overcome the problems of future complex systems. Mapping IPs directly affects NoC design parameters such as latency and power consumption. In this paper we present a power and perf...

Network-on-chip (NoC) performance largely depends on the underlying deadlock-free and efficient routing algorithm. The effectiveness of any adaptive routing algorithm strongly depends on the underlying selection strategy. When the routing function returns a set of admissible output channels with cardinality greater than one, a selection function is used to select the output channel to which the...