Lab-on-a-chip: Techniques, Circuits, and Biomedical Applications

Lab-on-a-chip, as Ghallab (PhD, electrical engineering, U. of Calgary, Canada) and Badawy (electrical and computer engineering, U. of Calgary, Canada) explain in their introduction, is a device that integrates one or several laboratory functions on a single chip of some square millimeters to a few square centimeters in size. They discuss the state of the art of lab-on-a-chip research and its biomedical applications at the cell level. Chapters address cell structures, properties, and models; cell manipulator fields; metal-oxide semiconductor technology fundamentals; complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) based lab-on-a-chip; CMOS electric-field-based lab-on-a-chip for cell characterization and detection; prototyping and experimental analysis; readout circuits for lab-on-a-chip; current-mode Wheatstone bridge for lab-on-a-chip applications; and current-mode readout circuits for the pH sensor. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)