Structural health management technologies for inflatable/deployable structures: Integrating sensing and self-healing

EJ Brandon, M Vozoff, EA Kolawa, GF Studor, F Lyons… - Acta Astronautica, 2011 - Elsevier
Inflatable/deployable structures are under consideration as habitats for future Lunar surface
science operations. The use of non-traditional structural materials combined with the need to …

Micro force sensor with piezoresistive amorphous carbon strain gauge

E Peiner, A Tibrewala, R Bandorf, S Biehl… - Sensors and actuators A …, 2006 - Elsevier
In this contribution we report for the first time on the successful integration of amorphous
carbon (aC) as a piezoresistive strain gauge into a silicon micro cantilever force sensor …

Flexible substrate micro-crystalline silicon and gated amorphous silicon strain sensors

L Zhou, S Jung, E Brandon… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present two different kinds of semiconductor strain sensors: ungated n+ micro-crystalline
silicon (n+/spl mu/C-Si), and gated hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si: H). Both sensor …

Multifunctional system-on-glass for lab-on-chip applications

G Petrucci, D Caputo, N Lovecchio, F Costantini… - Biosensors and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Lab-on-Chip are miniaturized systems able to perform biomolecular analysis in shorter time
and with lower reagent consumption than a standard laboratory. Their miniaturization …

Amorphous silicon pin structure acting as light and temperature sensor

G De Cesare, A Nascetti, D Caputo - Sensors, 2015 - mdpi.com
In this work, we propose a multi-parametric sensor able to measure both temperature and
radiation intensity, suitable to increase the level of integration and miniaturization in Lab-on …

Fabrication of capacitive acoustic resonators combining 3D printing and 2D inkjet printing techniques

RI Haque, E Ogam, C Loussert, P Benaben… - Sensors, 2015 - mdpi.com
A capacitive acoustic resonator developed by combining three-dimensional (3D) printing
and two-dimensional (2D) printed electronics technique is described. During this work, a …

Multiwell cartridge with integrated array of amorphous silicon photosensors for chemiluminescence detection: development, characterization and comparison with …

M Mirasoli, A Nascetti, D Caputo, M Zangheri… - Analytical and …, 2014 - Springer
We propose a disposable multiwell microcartridge with integrated amorphous silicon
photosensors array for bio-and chemiluminescence-based bioassays, where the enzymatic …

Integrated evanescent waveguide detector for optical sensing

R Asquini, A Buzzin, D Caputo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the analysis and development of an evanescent waveguide sensor
system, based on a hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si: H) photodiode and a double ion …

Pressure sensing of Ga2O3 thin film

Z Liu, S Zhang, M Zhang, J Fang, L Du… - Smart Materials and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, a Ga 2 O 3-based pressure sensor is introduced via metalorganic chemical
vapor deposition thin film growth technique. As an important semiconductor materials, it …

An approach to the extreme miniaturization of rotary comb drives

A Veroli, A Buzzin, F Frezza, G De Cesare… - Actuators, 2018 - mdpi.com
The evolution of microelectronic technologies is giving constant impulse to advanced micro-
scaled systems which perform complex operations. In fact, the actual micro and nano Electro …