On-Chip Capacitance Sensing for Cell Monitoring Applications

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 440-447

  Prakash, Somashekar Bangalore ^a,b   Abshire, Pamela ^a,b  

^a College Park ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioelectric phenomena; biological cells; biomedical transducers; capacitance measurement; capacitance transducers; CMOS integrated circuits; dielectric measurements; dielectric polarization; mixed analog digital integrated circuits

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008048793     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: 15581748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2006.889213     Document Type: Article

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