#New chip-based technology to detect Ebola virus Researchers have developed a chip-based technology that can be integrated into a portable instrument for use in field situations where rapid,
Adding a"preconcentration"step during sample processing on the microfluidic chip extended the limit of detection well beyond that achieved by other chip-based approaches,
The system combined a microfluidic chip for sample preparation and an optofluidic chip for optical detection.
The microfluidic chip was made of a silicon-based polymer, polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), and had microvalves and fluidic channels to transport the sample between nodes for various sample preparation steps.
and transferred to the optofluidic chip for optical detection. The study was published in the journal Scientific Reports s
What makes this printer so efficient is its digital micromirroring array device chip (DMD), containing millions of micromirrors that function separately from one another to cast the desired microfish design onto photosensitive material,
while the second chip runs the various tests on the purified blood sample. It is the brainchild of a joint research team from Singapore Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore), SIMTECH and the Houston Methodist Hospital Research Institute.
who is also the Director of VIRTUS Center of Excellence in Integrated circuit Design at NTU School of Electrical and Electronic engineering n
#Heart-on-a-Chip Device Holds Promise for Drug-Screening When UC Berkeley bioengineers say they are holding their hearts in the palms of their hands,
This organ-on-a-chip, reported in a study published today (Monday, March 9) in the journal Scientific Reports, represents a major step forward in the development of accurate, faster methods of testing for drug toxicity.
The project is funded through the Tissue Chip for Drug Screening Initiative an interagency collaboration launched by the National institutes of health to develop 3-D human tissue chips that model the structure and function of human organs. ltimately,
these chips could replace the use of animals to screen drugs for safety and efficacy, said Healy.
The study authors noted a high failure rate associated with the use of nonhuman animal models to predict human reactions to new drugs.
or heart-on-a-chip, so that its 3-D structure would be comparable to the geometry and spacing of connective tissue fiber in a human heart.
or heart-on-a-chip, so that its 3-D structure would be comparable to the geometry and spacing of connective tissue fiber in a human heart.
#Lab on a Chip Acoustofluidic Sputum Liquefaction Device for Safe Asthma and Tuberculosis Diagnostics A device to mix liquids utilizing ultrasonics is the first and most difficult component in a miniaturized system for low-cost analysis
With a lab on a chip device, all biospecimens are contained safely in a single disposable component.
With the lab on a chip system a nurse can operate the device with a touch of a few buttons
Po-Hsun Huang, a graduate student in the Huang group and the first author on the recent paper describing the device in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Lab on a Chip,
This is the first on-chip sputum liquefier anyone has developed. Stewart J. Levine, a Senior Investigator and Chief of the Laboratory of Asthma and Lung Inflammation in the Division of Intramural Research at NHLBI, said his on-chip sputum liquefier is a significant advance regarding our goal
of developing a point-of-care diagnostic device that will determine the type of inflammation present in the lungs of asthmatics.
The company is taking a page from the semiconductor industry in making its chip. ee leveraging knowledge acquired from high-tech semiconductor manufacturing methods to get the cost
and the accuracy in the chip, said VP of Manufacturing Robert Chebi, a veteran of the microelectronic industry who previously worked at Lam research
Ghodbane and six Rutgers researchers recently published their results in the Royal Society of Chemistry's journal, Lab on a Chip.
The lab-on-chip device, which employs microfluidics technology, along with making tests more affordable for patients
The Rutgers team has combined several capabilities for the first time in the device they've dubbed"ELISA-on-a-chip"(for enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.
#Novel Microfluidic Hybrid Device Reliably Detects Ebola virus A team led by researchers at UC Santa cruz has developed chip-based technology for reliable detection of Ebola virus and other viral pathogens.
Adding a"preconcentration"step during sample processing on the microfluidic chip extended the limit of detection well beyond that achieved by other chip-based approaches,
The system combines two small chips, a microfluidic chip for sample preparation and an optofluidic chip for optical detection.
For over a decade, Schmidt and his collaborators have been developing optofluidic chip technology for optical analysis of single molecules as they pass through a tiny fluid-filled channel on the chip.
The microfluidic chip for sample processing can be integrated as a second layer next to or on top of the optofluidic chip.
and transferred to the optofluidic chip for optical detection. Schmidt noted that the team has not yet been able to test the system starting with raw blood samples.
the invention was explained in the recent issue of the Royal Society of Chemistry's Lab on a Chip.
"We used the concept of lab on a chip, which compresses the entire function of a laboratory diagnostic test onto a tiny microfluidics chip,
to create lab in a needle, "explained Stephen T. C. Wong, Ph d.,P. E.,Chair of the Department of Systems Medicine and Bioengineering at Houston Methodist Research Institute."
and analyzed using lab on a chip methods which eliminates the need for wet laboratory work
"Sample preparation was accomplished on one chip that incorporated a miniature motor and microfluidics, while amplification was performed on a second connected chip,
said Wong, who is also a professor of radiology, neuroscience, pathology and laboratory medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College.
and analysis chips into a miniaturized device. A*STAR SIMTECH will tap on its manufacturing process capabilities to develop a cost effective lab in needle device that can be scaled up for mass production.
Data is stored by memory chips in the form of ones and zeroes. Silicon-based memory chips are classified as either volatile and nonvolatile.
In the RRAM chips metal oxides are changed between conductive and resistive states by the application of a small joly of electricity. in these RRAM chips.
electronic circuits and sensors can be integrated directly into different materials by printing, thus producing novel security tags for sealing shipments
flat-chip bioreactors the size of cigarette packs for continuous processing. The scientists are also working on making purification portable.
flat-chip bioreactors the size of cigarette packs for continuous processing. The scientists are also working on making purification portable.
the new commercial device is a plastic chip with three chambers: a middle chamber for hydrogel and any cell type, such as cancer cells or endothelial cells (which line blood vessels),
with new chips and kits released every 3-6 months. n a few years time, people who may be removed several steps from basic genomic research,
Their research is featured in a paper in the journal Lab on a Chip that has been published online.
#New lab-on-chip device promises faster TB diagnosis Singapore: US researchers have developed a new low-cost lab-on-a-chip device to aid analysis of sputum from patients with pulmonary diseases such as tuberculosis and asthma.
The study published in the journal Lab on a Chip elaborated that the new method will help in easing diagnosis for patients and aid in early detection and speedy recovery.
"This is the first on-chip sputum liquefier anyone has developed so far. The device will aid in accurate diagnosis
Computer scientists claim to have made a'game-changing leap'by building a logic gate a building block of a digital circuit using the strange properties of subatomic particles in silicon.
'Because we use essentially the same device technology as existing computer chips, we believe it will be much easier to manufacture a full-scale processor chip than for any of the leading designs,
which rely on more exotic technologies.''This makes the building of a quantum computer much more feasible,
A practical quantum chip could have a huge impact in areas where classical computers face an uphill struggle.
Light goes infinitely fast with new on-chip material Electrons are so 20th century. In the 21st century, photonic devices,
or manipulated but this metamaterial permits you to manipulate light from one chip to another, to squeeze,
A zero-index material that fits on a chip could have exciting applications, especially in the world of quantum computing."
It can couple to silicon waveguides to interface with standard integrated photonic components and chips."
""This on-chip metamaterial opens the door to exploring the physics of zero index and its applications in integrated optics,"said Mazur r
"said Sumeet Gupta, Monkowski Assistant professor of Electrical engineering and group leader of the Integrated circuits and Devices Lab, Penn State.
as they do in computer chips. As a semimetal, graphene naturally has no bandgaps, making it a challenge for widespread industry adoption.
Wee bound to see an Apple A9 system-on-a-chip with a faster CPU and GPU.
so having a newer chip dedicated to handling the increasing amount of data makes sense.
One of the principle barriers to increasing CPU clocks is that it extremely difficult to move heat out of the chip.
and CPUS aren very good at spreading that heat out across the entire surface area of the chip.
Massachusetts institute of technology spin out Cambridge Electronics Inc (CEI) has announced a line of Gan transistors and power electronic circuits that promise to cut energy usage in data centres, electric cars,
Toshiba has teamed up with Gujarat-based Einfochips to provide chips for Google Project Ara. The camera modules will be made available in both 5mp and 13mp versions,
hospitals and chip makers, to name two, and even the U s. Department of defense. Central to the concept of onsite generation that links with microgrids is energy storage,
an assistant professor of applied physics and materials science at Caltech. ut this new technology is very similar to the one used to print semiconductor chips onto silicon wafers,
Ghodbane and six Rutgers researchers recently described the new technology in a paper published in Lab on a Chip. he results are as sensitive and accurate as the standard benchtop assay,
The team has combined several capabilities for the first time in the device theye dubbed LISA-on-a-chip (for enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.
#New chip could turn phone cameras into high-res 3d scanners As if smartphones can't already do enough,
Towards this end, researchers from the University of Bristol and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) claim to have developed a fully-reprogrammable quantum optical chip able to encode
Even better, the stable and quickly reprogrammable nature of the chip's architecture changeable by means of software code means that a vast range of existing
it took seconds to reprogram the chip, and milliseconds for the chip to switch to the new experiment,"said University of Bristol Phd student
and research team member, Jacques Carolan.""We carried out a year worth of experiments in a matter of hours.
What wee really excited about is using these chips to discover new science that we haven even thought of yet...
This chip has been fabricated and packaged up, so that we never need to realign it. It sits there,
with plans to add even more chips in the near future.""Over the last decade, we have established an ecosystem for photonic quantum technologies,
and the technology could scale up to include thousands, even millions of entangled quantum bits on a single chip.
and microwave radiation The technique could scale up to hold thousands, even millions of qubits on a single chip
and paves the way to quantum chips that can perform just about any operation. The scientists built this logic gate by taking two standard transistors, next to each other,
"Our team is looking for industrial partners to construct a chip that would contain between tens and hundreds of qubits,
and which uses the silicon-CMOS technology used today for most computer processor chips, "lead researcher Andrew Dzurak told us."
and the technology could scale up to include thousands, even millions of entangled quantum bits on a single chip.
and paves the way to quantum chips that can perform just about any operation. The scientists built this logic gate by taking two standard transistors, next to each other,
"Our team is looking for industrial partners to construct a chip that would contain between tens and hundreds of qubits,
and which uses the silicon-CMOS technology used today for most computer processor chips, "lead researcher Andrew Dzurak told us."
turning the paper into an electric circuit. he first thing I thought (upon first seeing the conductive ink) was that this has huge potential to change the (notions) of electric circuits,
Agic CEO Shinya Shimizu said in a recent interview with The Japan Times. Shimizu has a number of ideas on how the circuit marker can be utilized
The innovative part of the technology is that it can print electric circuits on large paper a few meters wide.
In the future, Shimizu said the technology could possibly be used to install electric circuits with sensors on wallpaper to create a smart home in
Electric circuits need to be drawn or printed on special paper coated with a chemical sold by Agic.
He also learned about electric circuits while at university and worked on it as a hobby. He initially hoped to become a graduate school researcher,
a University of Tokyo professor. n electric circuit is installed in so many things that you can hardly find things without it,
because this is a new form of electric circuit. n 2014, Shimizu, along with Kawahara, founded Agic in an effort to apply the technology to the business world.
#3d Computer Chips Could Be 1, 000 Times Faster Than Existing Ones A new method of designing and building computer chips could lead to blisteringly quick processing at least 1,
000 times faster than the best existing chips are capable of, researchers say. The new method,
which relies on materials called carbon nanotubes, allows scientists to build the chip in three dimensions. The 3d design enables scientists to interweave memory,
and the number-crunching processors in the same tiny space, said Max Shulaker, one of the designers of the chip,
the researchers figured out that drilling holes at certain spots within the chip can ensure that even a chip with wayward tubes would work as expected.
Those few conducting tubes can ruin an entire chip, and having to toss even a fraction of the chips wouldn't make financial sense, Shulaker added.
As a remedy, Shulaker and his colleagues essentially"turn off"all the semiconducting CNTS, leaving huge jolts of current to circulate through the remaining conducting nanotubes.
to make even bigger, more complicated chips s
#Thermal'Invisibility Cloak'Could Keep People Cool A new thermal"invisibility cloak"that channels heat around whatever it is trying to hide may one day help keep people and satellites cool,
They are also using the PLL approach to increase throughput by operating many cantilevers on a single chip m
the copper oxide nanowire was made part of an electric circuit. The researchers detected carbon monoxide indirectly, by measuring the change in the resulting circuit electrical resistance in presence of the gas.
the copper oxide nanowire was made part of an electric circuit. The researchers detected carbon monoxide indirectly, by measuring the change in the resulting circuit electrical resistance in presence of the gas.
This breakthrough could allow manufacturers to easily use graphene nanoribbons in hybrid integrated circuits which promise to significantly boost the performance of next-generation electronic devices.
the material most commonly found in today's computer chips. But to exploit graphene remarkable electronic properties in semiconductor applications where current must be switched on and off,
A team of users and staff working at the Molecular Foundry have created a thermal imaging technique that can eehow temperature changes from point to point inside the smallest electronic circuits.
which are directly related to the local temperature within an integrated circuit or transistor. Based on these principles
The paper is titled"Highly sensitive and selective sensor chips with graphene oxide linking layer"."Valentyn Volkov is the co-lead author, a visiting professor from the University of Southern Denmark.
New GO based biosensor chips exploit the phenomenon of surface plasmon resonance (SPR. Surface plasmons are electromagnetic waves propagating along a metal-dielectric interface (e g.,
Most commercial SPR sensor chips comprise a thin glass plate covered by gold layer with thiol
The biosensing sensitivity depends on the properties of chip surface. Higher binding capacity for biomolecules increases the signal levels and accuracy of analysis. The last several years
and patented a novel type of SPR sensor chips with the linking layer, made of GO, a material with more attractive optical and chemical properties than pristine graphene.
Scientists conducted a series of experiments with the GO chip the commercially available chip with carboxymethylated dextran (CMD) layer and the chip covered by monolayer graphene.
Experiments showed that the proposed GO chip has three times higher sensitivity than the CMD chip and 3. 7 times than the chip with pristine graphene.
These results mean, that the new chip needs much less molecules for detecting a compound
and can be used for analysis of chemical reactions with small drug molecules. An important advantage of the new GO based sensor chips is their simplicity
and low-cost fabrication compared to sensor chips that are already commercially available. ur invention will help in drug development against viral and cancer diseases.
We are expecting that pharmaceutical industry will express a strong demand for our technology Stebunov said. he sensor can also find applications in food quality control, toxin screening,
However, the developed chip should go through a clinical trial for medical applications
#Crucial hurdle overcome in quantum computing: quantum logic gate in silicon built for the first time A team of Australian engineers has built a quantum logic gate in silicon for the first time,
Because we use essentially the same device technology as existing computer chips, we believe it will be much easier to manufacture a full-scale processor chip than for any of the leading designs,
which rely on more exotic technologies. his makes the building of a quantum computer much more feasible,
"He said that a key next step for the project is to identify the right industry partners to work with to manufacture the full-scale quantum processor chip.
as they do in computer chips. As a semimetal, graphene naturally has no bandgaps, making it a challenge for widespread industry adoption.
This advance could allow manufacturers to easily use graphene nanoribbons in hybrid integrated circuits, which promise to significantly boost the performance of next-generation electronic devices.
the material most commonly found in today's computer chips. But to exploit graphene's remarkable electronic properties in semiconductor applications where current must be switched on and off
#New optical chip lights up the race for quantum computer The microprocessor inside a computer is a single multipurpose chip that has revolutionised people's life,
Now, researchers from the University of Bristol in the UK and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) in Japan, have pulled off the same feat for light in the quantum world by developing an optical chip that can process photons in an infinite number
The fully reprogrammable chip brings together a multitude of existing quantum experiments and can realise a plethora of future protocols that have not even been conceived yet, marking a new era of research for quantum scientists and engineers at the cutting edge of quantum technologies.
"A whole field of research has essentially been put onto a single optical chip that is easily controlled.
"The team demonstrated the chip's unique capabilities by reprogramming it to rapidly perform a number of different experiments, each
it took seconds to re-programme the chip, and milliseconds for the chip to switch to the new experiment.
We carried out a year's worth of experiments in a matter of hours. What we're really excited about is using these chips to discover new science that we haven't even thought of yet."
"The device was made possible because the world's leading quantum photonics group teamed up with Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), the world's leading telecommunications company.
and plans to add more chips like this one to the service so others can discover the quantum world for themselves s
The common, rigid printed circuit board is slowly being replaced by a thin ribbon of resilient, high-performance electronics.
With our technology, we can take a razor-thin silicon integrated circuit, a few hundred nanometers thick,
#First realization of an electric circuit with a magnetic insulator using spin waves In our current electronic equipment,
Duine from Utrecht University have succeeded to use spin waves in an electric circuit by carefully designing the device geometry.
and hence enables the spin waves to be used in an electric circuit. The spin wave circuit that the researchers built,
At the Frontiers in Optics conference researchers will describe a custom-built ultrafast laser that could help image everything from semiconductor chips to cells in real time Using ultrafast beams of extreme ultraviolet light streaming at a 100,000 times a second, researchers
Their new approach could be used to study everything from semiconductor chips to cancer cells. The team will present their work at the Frontiers in Optics
Engineers can use this to hunt for tiny defects in semiconductor chips. Biologists can zoom in on the organelles that make up a cell.
The key breakthrough will allow large quantities of data to be stored directly on an integrated optical chip,
a stumbling block so far has been the storage of large quantities of data directly on integrated chips in the optical domain.
The team of scientists from Germany and England have made a key breakthrough by capturing light on an integrated chip,
so developing the first permanent, all-optical on-chip memory. The research is published in leading scientific journal, Nature Photonics.
by delivering extremely fast on-chip optical data storage"In addition, he says, "the written state is preserved
when the power is removed, unlike most current on-chip memories"."The scientists from Oxford, Exeter, Karlsruhe and Mnster used so-called phase change materials at heart of their all-optical memory.
and are compatible with existing chip manufacturing processes, "Chang says.""Our next steps include integrating these materials into functional optical and electronic devices
including computer chips and other optoelectronic components.""Our results demonstrate relatively fast modulation from fundamentally slow phosphorescent light emitters,
One example could be optical communications networks on computer chips. Prototype on-chip networks have used semiconductor lasers as light emitters.
They can modulate very quickly, but they have downsides. Semiconductors can't be grown directly on a silicon chip,
for example--makes for bulky systems that take up a lot of real estate on a chip. What's more, semiconductor lasers are not particularly efficient.
There's still more work to be done to get such a system up to a speed that would be useful on a chip,
In the nearest future, we are going to test such nanoparticles in integrated circuits
#Magnetic Nanosorbents Eliminate Fluoride from Water Researchers from Tehran University of Medical sciences used low-cost and available raw materials for the laboratorial production of nanosorbents with high efficiency in elimination of fluoride from contaminated water.
Now Accion has developed a commercial electrospray propulsion system their first is about the size of a pack of gum made of tiny chips that provide thrust for small satellites.
a module comprising eight chips each about 1 square centimeter, and 2 millimeters thick that can be applied anywhere on a satellite.
Above the reservoir are the chips, which each have a porous substrate with about 500 pointed tips and, above that, an extractor grid with small holes.
and a simple design, Accion can batch-manufacture modules much like computer chips in quantities of around 200 at once.
#Nanotechnology may double radio frequency data capacity A team of Columbia Engineering researchers has invented a technology--full-duplex radio integrated circuits (ICS)--that can be implemented in nanoscale CMOS to enable simultaneous transmission and reception
The optical chip needs to be as close to the electrical chip as possible to minimize the distance of electrical connection between them.
"In addition to the silicon technology advancements at the chip-level, novel system-level integration concepts are required also to fully profit from the new capabilities silicon photonics will bring,
resulting in a large distance between the processor chip and the optical components. Offrein and his IBM colleagues from Europe
the United states and Japan instead proposed an integration scheme in which the silicon photonic chips are treated similarly to ordinary silicon processor chips
or inhibit optical nonlinearities in a chip-scale device has been developed by scientists, led by the University of Sydney.
and sound on chip scale devices. The effect we looked at (known as stimulated Brillouin scattering) occurs
To address this, the researchers introduced a grating structure on to the chip. The grating,
On-chip optical research is a thriving and competitive area because of its importance to manipulating classical
The so called DNA chip card employs electrochemical DNA chips and overcomes the complicated procedures associated with genetic testing of conventional methods.
The DNA chip card is expected to find applications in hygiene management in food manufacture, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics.
The so-called automatic abbreviated DNA detection technology DNA chip card was developed by Toshiba Ltd and in a collaboration with Kawasaki City Institute for Public health, used to simultaneously detect 14 different types of foodborne pathogens in less than 90 minutes.
the DNA chip card only requires the operator to inject nucleic acid, thereby making the procedure easier to use and without specialized operating skills.
Examples of pathogens associated with food poisoning that were tested with the DNA chip card d
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