Parylene C-based flexible electronics for pH monitoring applications

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 11629-11639

  Trantidou, Tatiana ^a   Tariq, Mehvesh ^a   Terracciano, Cesare M ^b   Toumazou, Christofer ^a   Prodromakis, Themistoklis ^a,c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discrete MOSFETs; Extended gate; Flexible electronics; Parylene C; pH sensor

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS; PH SENSORS; SENSORS;

CHEMICAL RECORDINGS; EXTENDED GATE; IMPLANTABLE SENSORS; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MICRO-FABRICATION TECHNIQUES; MOSFETS; PARYLENE C; PHYSIOLOGICAL RECORDINGS;

MOSFET DEVICES;

EID: 84903715569     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s140711629     Document Type: Article

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