Flip-chip Distributed MEMS Transmission Lines (DMTLs) for biosensing applications

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 986-990

  Li, Lijie ^a   Uttamchandani, Deepak ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biosensor; Distributed MEMS transmission line (DMTL); Flip chip

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; BIO-SAMPLES; BIOSENSING APPLICATIONS; DISTRIBUTED MEMS TRANSMISSION LINE (DMTL); FLIP-CHIP; HIGH FREQUENCIES; LOW-FREQUENCY RANGES; RADIO FREQUENCY EXPERIMENTS; REFLECTION COEFFICIENTS; RELATIVE DIELECTRIC CONSTANTS; SALT CONCENTRATIONS;

BANDPASS FILTERS; DEIONIZED WATER; ELECTRIC LINES; FLIP CHIP DEVICES; MEMS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; POWER TRANSMISSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

BIOSENSORS;

EID: 65549158090     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2008.2003204     Document Type: Conference Paper

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