The objective of this paper is to design and fabricate a micro-cooler to provide integral cooling to electronics or Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) type components utilizing current MEMS technologies. A three-port capillary pumped loop (CPL) was analyzed and fabricated from silicon and quartz for this purpose. An analytical study of the device is presented in support of this design. This ...

The aim of this work is to develop a completely integrated Lab-On-Chip (LOC) for easy, rapid and cost-effective immunoassays. The pathogen sensing system is composed of a microfluidic channel surrounded by planar microcoils which are responsible for the emission and the detection of magnetic fields. The system allows the detection and quantification of superparamagnetic beads used for immunoass...

This paper gives an example of how computer vision algorithms can be reformulated to exploit correlation based hardware without compromising the underlying principles of the algorithm. The work shows results of the "stretch-correlation" algorithm for calibrated stereo depth estimation and goes on to discuss the development of a convolution chip for implementing this algorithm. The motivation fo...

Abstract We developed a nonlinear optical crystal-based compact terahertz (THz)-microfluidic chip with several I-design meta-atoms for attomole (amol)-level sensing of trace amounts solution samples. The meta-atom consists metallic strip micometer-sized gap sandwiched by other strips. It is periodically arrayed in row 1 × 5 units. A point THz source locally generated rectification at the irradi...

This paper reports a microfluidic platform with external hybrid integration of an organic light emitting diode (OLED) as an excitation source. This device can be used as a simple and cost effective biosensing element. The device is capable of rapid in-situ detection of biological elements such as sensing of interaction of antigen with fluorescent tagged antibody conjugates. These portable micro...

The International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors [1] prognoses up to four billion transistors on a single chip with feature sizes below 45 nm operating in the 10 GHz range. This will be achieved by continuous scaling of transistor dimensions and offers the opportunity to further increase the performance into the Tera-Flop era. Unfortunately, the scaling is about to approach physical limi...

1 Lab-STICC, Institut Telecom, Telecom Bretagne, UMR CNRS 3192 Lab-STICC, Technopôle Brest-Iroise, CS 83818 29238 Brest Cedex 3, France 2TELECOM Bretagne institution, Université européenne de Bretagne (UEB), France 3Orange Labs, 38-40 rue du generale-Leclerc, 92792 Issy Moulineaux Cedex 9, France 4Communication Systems Department, Institut National des Postes et Télécommunications (INPT), Madin...

The most important third generation (3G) cellular communications standard is based on wideband CDMA (WCDMA). Receivers based on TDMA style channel equalization at the chip level have been proposed for a WCDMA downlink employing long spreading sequences to ensure adequate performance even with a high number of active users. These receivers equalize the channel prior to despreading, thus restorin...