{"title":"NEMS 2020 Index","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/nems50311.2020.9265558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/nems50311.2020.9265558","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":6787,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE 15th International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular System (NEMS)","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80165672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A wireless self-powered glucose monitoring biosystem","authors":"A. Baingane, G. Slaughter","doi":"10.1109/NEMS50311.2020.9265568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEMS50311.2020.9265568","url":null,"abstract":"Herein, we report a novel self-powered glucose monitoring biosystem constructed using a hybrid biofuel cell consisting of colloidal platinum coated gold microwire (Au-co-Pt) as the anode and the biocathode consists of a network of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) immobilized with bilirubin oxidase. The hybrid system displayed a linear correlation (r2 = 0.992) in the presence of glucose concentration ranging from 2 mM to 54 mM. A sensitivity of 1.5 μA mM−1 was achieved. A charge pump circuit consisting of a blinking LED was connected to the biofuel cell. The blinking frequency of the LED corresponds to the glucose concentration. An android mobile phone camera application was used to measure the LED blinking frequency which was in turn converted into the glucose concentration readings using image processing and MATLAB. This enables the end user to be notified via text message.","PeriodicalId":6787,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE 15th International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular System (NEMS)","volume":"19 1","pages":"533-536"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89572170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhou Zheng, Naeun Kim, Jiaqi Wang, W. Wong, J. Yeow
{"title":"Inkjet-Printed Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer (CMUT) for Moisture Sensing","authors":"Zhou Zheng, Naeun Kim, Jiaqi Wang, W. Wong, J. Yeow","doi":"10.1109/NEMS50311.2020.9265591","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEMS50311.2020.9265591","url":null,"abstract":"This study presents a miniaturized CMUT- based moisture sensor that is functionalized by the inkjet printing technique. The multi-cell CMUT designed in a hexagonal cell arrangement was fabricated. A graphene oxide sensing film was inkjet-printed on the surface of the CMUT for adsorption of water molecules. The sensitivity, repeatability, and hysteresis characteristics of the moisture sensor were tested. The inkjet-printed CMUT showed a significantly reduced hysteresis level than our previous drop- casted devices.","PeriodicalId":6787,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE 15th International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular System (NEMS)","volume":"38 1","pages":"106-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88030376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On-skin Based Soft Triboelectric Nanogenerator for Electronics Skin","authors":"Jiwon Park, Da Eun Kim, Youn Tae Kim","doi":"10.1109/NEMS50311.2020.9265583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEMS50311.2020.9265583","url":null,"abstract":"Currently, with the transition to the ubiquitous era, next-generation electronic devices such as artificial electronic skin, wearable computers, and flexible displays have been developed that are light and portable and can be easily applied to human life. Therefore, in order to supply power to such devices, the importance for the development of an energy devices is increasing. To address this issue, a stretchable on-skin based triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) that contacts to the skin and can generate energy from the free movement is proposed. It is easier to manufacture than the previously reported body-attachable TENG and is ultrathin with a total thickness of 200 μm. As an electrode, the conductive thread was formed in a winding pattern on an elastomer substrate, showed high elasticity of 100% or more, and stability without distortion even under repeated strain. It adhered to the back hand to generate an electrical output of 280 V and 12 μA, and the test on the electronic drive demonstrated its practical applicability. The on-skin based TENG may be utilized as a stretchable and flexible energy device that can replace the conventional bulk battery, and has the potential to be an important core technology in combination with E-skin and wearable sensors.","PeriodicalId":6787,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE 15th International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular System (NEMS)","volume":"15 1","pages":"273-276"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86031132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nanogap Device Engineering for Electrical Characterisation of Molecular Components","authors":"E. Ore","doi":"10.1109/NEMS50311.2020.9265609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEMS50311.2020.9265609","url":null,"abstract":"For the development of molecular electronics, it is essential to measure the electrical characteristics of individual molecular components -without altering their structures. This -work concerns engineering nanogap devices that are suitable for electrical characterisation of sub-10 nm molecular components. The fabrication process involves embedding a thin layer of AlAs between two thick layers of Gads layers by molecular beam epitaxy that controls the primary nanogap width. Mesas separated by trenches are patterned by reactive ion-beam etching. The mesa sidewallsform the active regions, -where some of the AlAs layer is selectively etched by hydrofluoric acid, resulting in identical shadow cleavages. Nanogap devices are constructed by thermally evaporating thin layers of NiCr/Au crossing the etched mesa cleavages. The nanogap devices are used for electrical characterisation of 7 nm wide CdSe nanocrystals, and negative differential resistance behaviour is observed.","PeriodicalId":6787,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE 15th International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular System (NEMS)","volume":"30 1","pages":"83-88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82410468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Kuis, Md Qumrul Hasan, A. Baingane, G. Slaughter
{"title":"Comparison of chitosan and nafion-chitosan coated bioelectrodes in enzymatic glncose biofnel cells","authors":"R. Kuis, Md Qumrul Hasan, A. Baingane, G. Slaughter","doi":"10.1109/NEMS50311.2020.9265595","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEMS50311.2020.9265595","url":null,"abstract":"Here we evaluated the performance of enzymatic glucose biofuel cells. The significance of bioelectrodes employed in biofuel cell design is highly dependent on the effective immobilization of enzyme to enable the enzyme to present an orientation that is favorable for direct electron transfer (DET) from the active center of the enzyme to the final current collector. We examined chitosan and nafion-chitosan based coatings on immobilized pyrroloquinoline quinone dependent glucose dehydrogenase (PQQ-GDH) and bilirubin oxidase (BOD) as anodic and cathodic enzymes, respectively. The enzymes were immobilized on multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs). The performance of the assembled biofuel cells exhibited interesting operational stability. Operating under DET, the biofuel cell with bioelectrodes coated with chitosan produced the highest power (156 μW) output. PQQ-GDH bioanodes with various enzyme concentrations were evaluated to access their performance and stability. The bioanode with 2.5 mg/ml immobilized PQQ-GDH demonstrated long term stability and generated a maximum power density of 1.6 mW/cm2 in the fuel cell assembly when compared to higher enzyme load concentration (≥ 5 mg/ml PQQ-GDH).","PeriodicalId":6787,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE 15th International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular System (NEMS)","volume":"42 1","pages":"416-419"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78501950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Review of Nanofluids Synthesis for Oil and Gas Applications","authors":"Surupa Shaw","doi":"10.1109/NEMS50311.2020.9265611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEMS50311.2020.9265611","url":null,"abstract":"A comprehensive review was performed on various aspects of nanofluids technology (including synthesis and materials characterization) with a focus on identification of applications in the oil and gas industry. Well-established and intuitive material properties of the bulk material do not hold at the nanoscale. The high surface area to volume ratio of nanoparticles result in counter-intuitive property enhancements in comparison to their bulk counterparts. Stable suspensions of nanoparticles in various solvents is termed as nanofluid. The material properties of nanoparticles can be tuned. As a result, nanofluids can be synthesized with tunable material properties that are responsive to external stimuli (\"smart fluids\"). This makes these materials attractive targets for deployment in various segments of the oil and gas industry. Nanofluids and nano-composites confer several advantages: such as enhanced strength, enhanced thermal conductivity, enhanced heat transfer area, enhanced oil recovery, enhanced magnetic properties, light-weight, resistance to corrosion, erosion, wear and tear. These afford various unconventional applications of nanofluids in the oil and gas industry. This provides an excellent value proposition for researching their synthesis methods and their working mechanisms. Nanofluids are synthesized by adding very minute concentrations of nanoparticles in the base fluid, leading to the formation of a colloidal suspension that is superior in the rheological, mechanical and thermal properties as compared to the base fluid (neat solvent). In this review the synthesis protocols reported in the literature are explored to ascertain their competitiveness for the oil and gas industry. Nanofluids were found to be attractive for applications ranging from exploration, drilling, and production.","PeriodicalId":6787,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE 15th International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular System (NEMS)","volume":"31 1","pages":"455-460"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91018976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development of an All-Polyimide Flexible Airflow Sensor for Flow-Velocity and Flow-Direction Sensing","authors":"Dawei Shen, Qipei He, Zhiqiang Ma, Yonggang Jiang","doi":"10.1109/NEMS50311.2020.9265571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEMS50311.2020.9265571","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, we developed an all-polyimide flexible airflow sensor, which consisted of four hair-like curved polyimide (PI) cantilever beams arranged in a cross-form configuration and graphene/polyimide (Gr/PI) nanocomposite-based piezoresistors. Electrical breakdown process was applied to fabricate the Gr/PI nanocomposite-based piezoresistors . As airflow travels through the cross-form configuration hair-like curved cantilevers, the cantilever beams will be deformed, which leads to a corresponding change in the resistances of the piezoresistors. As the hair-like airflow sensor is fully flexible, it can fit on curved surfaces. To compensate the ambient temperature fluctuation on the measurement accuracy of flow velocity, a temperature sensor is integrated nearby the cantilevers. The sensor is designed to have the ability of measuring both the flow velocity and flow direction, which is very crucial to many practical applications.","PeriodicalId":6787,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE 15th International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular System (NEMS)","volume":"14 1","pages":"139-142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79563763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yifan Xu, Hadi Tavakkoli, Jingting Xu, Yi-Kuen Lee
{"title":"A Low-drift Extended-Gate Field Effect Transistor (EGFET) with Differential Amplifier for Cordyceps Sinensis DNA Detection Optimized by gm/ID Theory","authors":"Yifan Xu, Hadi Tavakkoli, Jingting Xu, Yi-Kuen Lee","doi":"10.1109/NEMS50311.2020.9265621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEMS50311.2020.9265621","url":null,"abstract":"An extended-gate field effect transistor (EGFET) integrated with a differential MOSFET amplifier and an open-source Arduino Yun MCU system was realized for detection of Cordyceps Sinensis DNA molecules. A gold microelectrode chip coated with a single-stranded DNA probe, as the extended gate was fabricated by MEMS fabrication processes. The differential MOSFET amplifier and additional coating of alkyl-thiol reduced the drifting by one order of magnitude. Moreover, generalized gm/ID theory was used to study the optimized working regime of the EGFET sensor. The highest electric-electrochemical sensitivity could be achieved in the Moderate Inversion (MI) regime. The sensitivity and limit of detection (LOD) of the EGFET sensor were obtained to be 13.85mV/dec and 10nM, respectively. This low-cost low-drift EGFET sensor system is promising for Internet of Living Things in the near future.","PeriodicalId":6787,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE 15th International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular System (NEMS)","volume":"23 1","pages":"398-401"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78520814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Romana Daňová, Venkata Dinesh Avvari, R. Olejník, P. Slobodian, J. Matyáš, D. Kimmer
{"title":"Enhanced PVDF Electrospun Nanofiber Capacitive Pressure Sensor for Wearable Electronic","authors":"Romana Daňová, Venkata Dinesh Avvari, R. Olejník, P. Slobodian, J. Matyáš, D. Kimmer","doi":"10.1109/NEMS50311.2020.9265563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEMS50311.2020.9265563","url":null,"abstract":"Two different types of nanofibers were prepared by electrospinning, namely poly-(vinylidene fluoride) PVDF and PVDF/TiO2. The prepared nanofibers have piezoelectric properties, which are characterized by the content of ß-phase. Another way to improve the piezoelectric properties is to use TiO2 nanoparticles, which increases the piezoelectric effect. Piezoelectric effect is strongly connected with capacitive properties which was investigated in this work. Capacitive sensor with a sandwich structure consisting of EVA foam as a cover, conductive copper fabric and nanofibers was prepared. The sensor is light-weight, flexible with the possibility of using for wearable electronics. We can therefore determine the maximum pressure at individual points of the foot, the course of its values, the method of pressure distribution throughout the foot. We can find use not only in research on walking, running and postures, but also, provide information on the magnitude of the applied force over time. The force converted to the selected sensor area is then pressure information.","PeriodicalId":6787,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE 15th International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular System (NEMS)","volume":"23 1","pages":"115-119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88681145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}