Publications de Erick Antonio Garcia Cordero

Device and method for pre-term birth risk assessment

Carlotta Guiducci, Erick Antonio Garcia Cordero, David Baud, Gloria Porro

The invention relates to a vaginal fluid monitoring device embedded into a feminine sanitary pad, said device comprising a stack of the following elements: An absorbent layer (100) configured to be in proximity to, and collect, a vaginal fluid; and A biose ...

2021

Apparatus for non-invasive sensing of biomarkers in human sweat

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Fabien Patrick Wildhaber, Johan Frédéric Longo, Hoël Maxime Guérin, Erick Antonio Garcia Cordero, Francesco Bellando

Presented herein are devices for collecting and/or channeling a biofluid (e.g., sweat, tears, saliva) and detecting and/or quantifying one or more biomarkers in the biofluid. The biomarker(s) may include, for example, ions, salts thereof, hormones and/or s ...

2019

Capillary flow device for bio-fluid collection with semiconductor sensors

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Hoël Maxime Guérin, Erick Antonio Garcia Cordero, Francesco Bellando

An on-body wearable bio-fluid collection and sensing device including an interface or interface surface comprising at least one biocompatible material for contacting a bodily part; at least one inlet for receiving the bio-fluid, at least one outlet for eva ...

2019

Sweat Biomarker Sensor Incorporating Picowatt, Three-Dimensional Extended Metal Gate Ion Sensitive Field Effect Transistors

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Fabien Patrick Wildhaber, Hoël Maxime Guérin, Maneesha Rupakula, Erick Antonio Garcia Cordero, Junrui Zhang, Francesco Bellando, Guillaume Charles Henri Herment

Ion sensitive field effect transistors (ISFETs) form a very attractive solution for wearable sensors due to their capacity for ultra-miniaturization, low power operation, and very high sensitivity, supported by complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS ...

2019

Field-effect transistor device or sensor for sensing ions, molecules or biomarkers in a fluid

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Erick Antonio Garcia Cordero, Junrui Zhang, Francesco Bellando

The present disclosure concerns a Field-Effect Transistor device or sensor comprising at least one drain region, at least one source region, at least a channel region, at least a first gate connected to the channel region, at least one stack comprising at ...

2019

All CMOS Integrated 3D-Extended Metal Gate ISFETs for pH and Multi-Ion (Na+, K+, Ca2+) sensing

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Fabien Patrick Wildhaber, Johan Frédéric Longo, Hoël Maxime Guérin, Maneesha Rupakula, Erick Antonio Garcia Cordero, Junrui Zhang, Francesco Bellando, Guillaume Charles Henri Herment

This paper reports for the first time, smart 3D-Extended-Metal-Gate Ion-Sensitive-Field-Effect-Transistors (3D-EMG-ISFETs), with unique figures of merit: (i) extremely-low-power (down to a record value of 2 pW per sensor under excellent linearity), (ii) al ...

IEEE2018

CMOS 3D-Extended Metal Gate ISFETs with Near Nernstian Ion Sensitivity

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Fabien Patrick Wildhaber, Johan Frédéric Longo, Hoël Maxime Guérin, Maneesha Rupakula, Erick Antonio Garcia Cordero, Junrui Zhang, Francesco Bellando, Neil Ebejer

IEEE2018

Three-Dimensional Integrated Ultra-Low-Volume Passive Microfluidics with Ion-Sensitive Field-Effect Transistors for Multiparameter Wearable Sweat Analyzers

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Fabien Patrick Wildhaber, Johan Frédéric Longo, Hoël Maxime Guérin, Erick Antonio Garcia Cordero, Junrui Zhang, Francesco Bellando

Wearable systems could offer noninvasive and real-time solutions for monitoring of biomarkers in human sweat as an alternative to blood testing. Recent studies have demonstrated that the concentration of certain biomarkers in sweat can be directly correlat ...

2018

Capillary flow device for bio-fluid collection with semiconductor sensors

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Hoël Maxime Guérin, Erick Antonio Garcia Cordero, Francesco Bellando

An on-body wearable bio-fluid collection and sensing device including an interface or interface surface comprising at least one biocompatible material for contacting a bodily part; at least one inlet for receiving the bio-fluid, at least one outlet for eva ...

2018

Embedded Passive Nano-Liter Micropump For Sweat Collection And Analysis

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Fabien Patrick Wildhaber, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Johan Frédéric Longo, Hoël Maxime Guérin, Erick Antonio Garcia Cordero, Francesco Bellando

This paper presents a method to integrate biocompatible passive microfluidic systems within a sensing platform to allow continuous analysis of sweat in a wearable microsystem. The technology is promising for miniaturization of systems to enable access to b ...

IEEE2018

Wearable System with Integrated Passive Microfluidics for Real-Time Electrolyte Sensing in Human Sweat

Erick Antonio Garcia Cordero

Wearable systems embodied as patches could offer noninvasive and real-time solutions for monitoring of biomarkers in human sweat as an alternative to blood testing, with applications in personalized and preventive healthcare. Sweat is considered to be a bi ...

EPFL2018

Lab on skin™: 3D monolithically integrated zero-energy micro/nanofludics and FD SOI ion sensitive FETs for wearable multi-sensing sweat applications

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Fabien Patrick Wildhaber, Johan Frédéric Longo, Hoël Maxime Guérin, Erick Antonio Garcia Cordero, Francesco Bellando

This paper reports a novel fully integrated low power multi-sensing smart system, which, by wafer-level 3D heterogeneous integration of Ion Sensitive Fully Depleted (FD) FETs and SU-8 micro/nanofludics, achieves the first of its kind wearable multi-sensing ...

2017

Ultra-Low Power Ion-Sensing Smart Platform for Noninvasive Healthcare Applications

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Hoël Maxime Guérin, Erick Antonio Garcia Cordero, Amira Muhech Medrano, Francesco Bellando

The development of nanotechnologies, and the advent of micro/nano-sensors with novel functionalities integrated on flexible substrates, has opened the way to the development of wearable technology. Interest in wearable technology comes from the considerabl ...

2016

Heterogeneous Integration of Low Power pH FinFET sensors with Passive Capillary Microfluidics and miniaturized Ag/AgCl quasi-Reference Electrode

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Hoël Maxime Guérin, Erick Antonio Garcia Cordero, Amira Muhech Medrano, Francesco Bellando

This work presents one of the first low power pH sensing microfluidic chip based on the heterogeneous integration of: (i) high-k FinFET sensors with liquid gate, (ii) miniaturized Ag/AgCl quasi-Reference Electrode and (iii) passive microfluidic. The integr ...

Ieee2016