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Abstract Nearly all biosensing platforms can be described using two fundamental steps—collection and detection. Target analytes must be delivered to a sensing element, which can then relay the transduced signal. For point-of-care technologies, where operation is to be kept simple, typically the collection step is passive diffusion driven—which can be slow or limiting under low concentrations. This work demonstrates an integration of both active collection and detection by using resonant wireless power transfer coupled to a nanogap capacitor. Nanoparticles suspended in deionized water are actively trapped using wireless dielectrophoresis and positioned within the most sensitive fringe field regions for wireless impedance-based detection. Trapping of 40 nm particles and larger is demonstrated using a 3.5 VRMS, 1 MHz radiofrequency signal delivered over a distance greater than 8 cm from the nanogap capacitor. Wireless trapping and release of 1 µm polystyrene beads is simultaneously detected in real-time over a distance of 2.5 cm from the nanogap capacitor. Herein, geometric scaling strategies coupled with optimal circuit design is presented to motivate combined collection and detection biosensing platforms amenable to wireless and/or smartphone operation.
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Adaptive and Reconfigurable Collaboration between Aircraft Wireless Systems and Wireless Communications
- Award ID(s):
- 2030243
- PAR ID:
- 10480355
- Publisher / Repository:
- IEEE
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Proceedings of the IEEE Texas Symposium on Wireless and Microwave Circuits and Systems
- ISSN:
- 2995-4428
- ISBN:
- 979-8-3503-3880-5
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 1 to 7
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Location:
- Waco, TX, USA
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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