Realizing Single Chip White Light InGaN LED via Dual-Wavelength Multiple Quantum Wells.

Dual-wavelength multiple quantum wells (MQWs) have great potential in realizing high quality illumination, monolithic micro light-emitting diode (LED) displays and other related fields. Here, we demonstrate a single chip white light indium gallium nitride (InGaN) LED via the manipulation of the dual-wavelength MQWs. The MQWs contain four pairs of blue light-emitting MQWs and one pair of green light-emitting QW. The fabricated LED chips with nickel/gold (Ni/Au) as the current spreading layer emit white light with the injection current changing from 0.5 mA to 80 mA. The chromaticity coordinates of (0.3152, 0.329) closing to the white light location in the Commission International de I'Eclairage (CIE) 1931 chromaticity diagram are obtained under a 1 mA current injection with a color rendering index (CRI) Ra of 60 and correlated color temperature (CCT) of 6246 K. This strategy provides a promising route to realize high quality white light in a single chip, which will significantly simplify the production process of incumbent white light LEDs and promote the progress of high-quality illumination.

Design of automatic urine collection system for medical system applications.

BACKGROUND: The results of urine tests are often affected by improper midstream urine collection time, urine spilling, and urine pollution, all of which can lead to an increase in the test error. OBJECTIVE: To solve this problem, aiming at improving the toilet environment at the hospitals and public physical examination centers, this paper designs an automatic urine collection system. It can automatically adjust the position of the urine cup with an infrared remote controller, or manually, adjust the position of the urine cup in special situations according to the needs of the user. It also has an alarm function. METHODS: The overall size and shape are designed based on the squatting pan, suitable for disposable plastic urine cups of different shapes and sizes. It can realize the automatic collection of midstream urine, manual collection in exceptional cases, emergency stops, and rescue calls. RESULTS: Through the trial survey, there was a significant difference between the statistical results of using the device and not using the device (t= 13.937, P= 0.000). 96% of the subjects thought that the design of the system was reasonable, 22% thought that it was inconvenient to use, and 91.7% of the medical staff thought that the system met the sampling requirements. CONCLUSIONS: Therefore, the trial evaluation is satisfactory, and the proposed collection system is suitable for use in hospitals at all levels and public health examination centers with a large amount of inspection.

Detection and Discrimination of Volatile Organic Compounds using a Single Film Bulk Acoustic Wave Resonator with Temperature Modulation as a Multiparameter Virtual Sensor Array.

This paper describes the detection and discrimination of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) using an e-nose system based on a multiparameter virtual sensor array (VSA), which consists of a single-chip temperature-compensated film bulk acoustic wave resonator (TC-FBAR) coated with 20-bilayer self-assembled poly(sodium 4-styrenesulfonate)/poly(diallyldimethylammonium chloride) thin films. The high-frequency and microscale FBAR multiparameter VSA was realized by temperature modulation, which can greatly reduce the cost and complexity compared to those of a traditional e-nose system and can allow it to operate at different temperatures. The discrimination effect depends on the synergy of temperature modulation and the sensing material. For proof-of-concept validation purposes, the TC-FBAR was exposed to six different VOC vapors at six different gas partial pressures by real-time VOC static detection and dynamic detection. The resulting frequency shifts and impedance responses were measured at different temperatures and evaluated using principal component analysis and linear discriminant analysis, which revealed that all analytes can be distinguished and classified with more than 97% accuracy. To the best of our knowledge, this report is the first on an FBAR multiparameter VSA based on temperature modulation, and the proposed novel VSA shows great potential as a compact and promising e-nose system integrated in commercial electronic products.

A single chip electron spin resonance detector based on a single high electron mobility transistor.

Single-chip microwave oscillators are promising devices for inductive electron spin resonance spectroscopy (ESR) experiments on nanoliter and subnanoliter samples. Two major problems of the previously reported designs were the large minimum microwave magnetic field (0.1-0.7 mT) and large power consumption (0.5-200 mW), severely limiting their use for the investigation of samples having long relaxation times and for operation at low temperatures. Here we report on the design and characterization of a single-chip ESR detector operating with a microwave magnetic field and a power consumption orders of magnitude lower compared with previous designs. These significant improvements are mainly due to the use of a high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) technology instead of a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology. The realized single-chip ESR detector, which operates at 11.2 GHz, consists of an LC Colpitts oscillator realized with a single high-electron mobility transistor and a co-integrated single turn planar coil having a diameter of 440 µm. The realized detector operates from 300 K down to 1.4 K, at least. Its minimum microwave magnetic field is 0.4 µT at 300 K and 0.06 µT at 1.4 K, whereas its power consumption is 90 µW at 300 K and 4 µW at 1.4 K, respectively. The experimental spin sensitivity on a sensitive volume of about 30 nL, as measured with a single crystal of α,γ-bisdiphenylene-ß-phenylallyl (BDPA)/benzene complex, is of 8 × 1010 spins/Hz1/2 at 300 K and 2 × 109 spins/Hz1/2 at 10 K, respectively. In a volume of about 100 pL, located in proximity to the coil wire, the spin sensitivity improves by two orders of magnitude.

Sequentially multiplexed amperometry for electrochemical biosensors.

Multiplexed electrochemical biosensors are intriguing due to their capability to permit high-throughput and low-cost assays. While commercial single-chip potentiostats are one promising approach for rapidly prototyping portable and low-cost electrochemical biosensors, it is still challenging to utilize them to achieve parallel multiplexing due to the limited resources integrated onto the chips. In this paper, we provide a methodology for incorporating multiplexing into commercial single-chip potentiostats by using a sequential architecture. In the sequential architecture, the multiplexed biosensors are interfaced to the single-chip potentiostat via single-pole single-throw switches, and the measurements alternate across the sensors. We build analytical and finite element models to investigate the behavior of the sensors, particularly when they are disconnected from the potentiostat, and find that we can take advantage of the dynamics of the sensors to achieve improved sensitivity over conventional chronoamperometry. We also investigate and compare different strategies to interface the multiplexed sensors to the single-chip potentiostat. Using the proposed multiplexing architecture, we demonstrate the implementation of 16-fold multiplexed amperometry, which is validated using ferricyanide measurement. Finally, the sequential multiplexing methodology is applied to a multiplexed bead-based electronic enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays of human interleukin-6.

Design on disinfection system for the pipeline of dialysis water based on temperature control / 中国医学装备

Objective: To design a disinfection system for pipeline of dialysis water that can be automatically controlled so as to improve the disinfection effect, and ensure the health and safety of the operators and patients with hemodialysis. Methods: In the new disinfection system, the manual control was changed to single chip, and the disinfection method was ozone disinfection. In the actual ozone disinfection instrument for the pipeline of dialysis water, through the relationship among solubility, half-life period and temperature of underwater ozone to obtain a simulate relational expression between disinfection time and temperature, and then through single chip to achieve automatic control of disinfection process. Results: Through experimental verification, the system was able to coordinately complete automatic disinfection, emptying and swashing, and the concentration of ozone could meet the requirements of setting. Conclusion: The design can effectively disinfect the pipeline of dialysis water and avoid harm for human body in operation. And the added functions, automatic emptying and swashing, can ensure the pipeline of dialysis water is applied in dialysis cure as soon as possible after the disinfection was completed, and it guarantee the safety of hemodialysis.

A design of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring system based on the control of AT89C51 / 中国医学装备

Objective: To design an ambulatory blood pressure measuring system based on control of single chip microcomputer AT89C51 so as to accurately measure the blood pressure of human body. Methods: In the design, single chip computer AT89C51 was used as main controller, and pressure transducer MPX5050GP was used to collect signal of blood pressure of human body, and then through calculated and processed of single chip microcomputer to measure the blood pressure value. The peripheral design adopted on-off circuit and liquid crystal display (LCD) to monitor the start control and blood pressure value of system. Results: This system could convert the blood pressure signal of human body into electrical signal through pressure transducer. And after these weak electrical signals were amplified and filtrated, they were further convert into digital signal so as to be inputed in single chip microcomputer. And then, these measurement value were finally displayed on LCD through calculating and processing of main program for these signals. The results of this system has well stability, and its largest indication error was 3 mmHg, which was in the permissible error range, and the detection was qualified. Conclusion: The system can accurately measure the blood pressure of human body, and it has the advantages of small size, convenient using, clear display and so on.

Sequential determination of multi-nutrient elements in natural water samples with a reverse flow injection system.

An integrated system was developed for automatic and sequential determination of NO2-, NO3-, PO43-, Fe2+, Fe3+ and Mn2+ in natural waters based on reverse flow injection analysis combined with spectrophotometric detection. The system operation was controlled by a single chip microcomputer and laboratory-programmed software written in LabVIEW. The experimental parameters for each nutrient element analysis were optimized based on a univariate experimental design, and interferences from common ions were evaluated. The upper limits of the linear range (along with detection limit, µmolL-1) of the proposed method was 20 (0.03), 200 (0.7), 12 (0.3), 5 (0.03), 5 (0.03), 9 (0.2) µmolL-1, for NO2-, NO3-, PO43-, Fe2+, Fe3+ and Mn2+, respectively. The relative standard deviations were below 5% (n=9-13) and the recoveries varied from 88.0±1.0% to 104.5±1.0% for spiked water samples. The sample throughput was about 20h-1. This system has been successfully applied for the determination of multi-nutrient elements in different kinds of water samples and showed good agreement with reference methods (slope 1.0260±0.0043, R2=0.9991, n=50).

Application of Micro-Electro-Mechanical-System Probe and Low-power & Low-noise Single Chip Integration System in Neural Loop Researching / 分析化学

A 8-channel neural signal′s simultaneous transducer detection micro system was developed to research the neural loop located at the brain hippocampus zone. The components of the system contained the neural probe manufactured with the Micro-electro-mechanical-systems (MEMS) technique based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate, biological low noise chopper-stabilization amplifier, low noise and intermediate speed SAR-ADC converter, reduced and low power ASK/FSK modulation radio transmitter. The micro system was applicable with the characters of small volume, interferences free, neural electrophysiology and neurotransmitter simultaneous detection, high sensitivity, high linearity, etc. The electrode resistance was optimized to 35.0 kΩ after depositing nanometer platinum black on the 4 electrophysiological sites on the Pt electrode. With the modification enzyme technique, nanomaterial enzyme membrane (Pt-mPD-GluOx) was directly fixed on the glutamate detection locus for selectively detecting special neural neurotransmitter matter. In addition, the electrochemistry measurement results indicated that the linear range of glutamate was 6-35 μmol/L with correlation coefficient of 0.97, the sensitivity was 0.0069 pA/(μmol/L). The current response error was less than 3.0 pA, which showed that the neural needle satisfied differential selection. Also, the logic/analog mixed signal 180-nm Application specific integrated circuit (ASIC ) technique (SmicRF180 nm 1Poly6M) was used to manufacture the transducer back-end disposing IC chip, and the test results provided some key parameters such as chopper-stabilization amplifier (equivalent in putting noise voltage ≤0.7 μV rms@1 kHz, gain of 71-82 dB, CMRR/PSRR>100 dB), SAR-ADC (ENOB is 12 bits, power consumption is 1.2 mW when maxmium conversion speed is 1 Msps, signal-noise-ratio is 60.9 dB, etc), and ASK/FSK modulation radio transmitter (the PA′s outputting power of 4-5 dBm, the radiation range of 10 meters). The micro neural transducer integrated system was convenient and wireless wearable for the research of brain hippocampus region.

Research on impedance detection device of glucose solution / 中国医学装备

Objective:To analyze the relationship between the concentration of glucose and the impedance of human blood, and study the relationship between human blood glucose detection and human blood impedance.Methods:The system adopts the AD5933 digital frequency synthesizer (DDS) in the excitation signal is produced, imposed on the impedance under test, the ADC acquisition signal and sent to the corresponding chip DFT digital processing module, measurement results through the I2C sent to the microcontroller, again by the single-chip microcomputer and PC computer communication, the computer shows that the impedance values. Results:The instrument can realize the resistor, capacitor, inductance, glucose solution impedance measuring rapidly and accurately, through experimental verify that resistive impedance deviation from the mean is 0.04, phase deviation from the mean is 0.15°.Conclusion:The glucose concentration of aqueous solution was linearly correlated with the impedance, the correlation coefficient greater than 0.99.

The design and development of a portable thermostat apparatus for medical liquid based on Single-Chip-Microprocessor / 中国医学装备

Objective:Some medical liquid needs to be heated to the human body temperature, so the constant temperature case is a necessary equipment. But the common constant temperature case is often bulky, inconvenient application and the price is very high, so this paper is mainly to develop a convenient and cheap thermostat device for medical liquid heating.Methods:The system used single-chip microcomputer for temperature control. The temperature sensor collected and displayed the temperature of the box when the temperature was set up. Then the heating module started when the temperature was lower than the set point, and stopped heating when reaching to the set point.Results: The temperature control effect of constant temperature case tested by calibrated mercury thermometer, the temperature of constant temperature case was not significantly different from that of mercury thermometer.Conclusion: The portable constant temperature case for medical liquid have the characteristics of precise temperature control, high temperature resolution, and small temperature fluctuations. It can meet the clinical needs and be worth to popularizing in clinical applications.

Ultra-low-power wireless transmitter for neural prostheses with modified pulse position modulation.

An ultra-low-power wireless transmitter for embedded bionic systems is proposed, which achieves 40 pJ/b energy efficiency and delivers 500 kb/s data using the medical implant communication service frequency band (402-405 MHz). It consumes a measured peak power of 200 µW from a 1.2 V supply while occupying an active area of 0.0016 mm(2) in a 130 nm technology. A modified pulse position modulation technique called saturated amplified signal is proposed and implemented, which can reduce the overall and per bit transferred power consumption of the transmitter while reducing the complexity of the transmitter architectures, and hence potentially shrinking the size of the implemented circuitry. The design is capable of being fully integrated on single-chip solutions for surgically implanted bionic systems, wearable devices and neural embedded systems.

Development of calibration device for platelet thermostatic storage box / 中国医学装备

Objective:The platelet thermostatic storage box is widely used in hospital, laboratory, and blood station. It is very necessary to develop a calibration device to ensure the accuracy of the technical parameters.Methods: Using Infrared emitter, digital temperature sensor, ARM microcontroller etc to form a calibration device, the parameters of temperature, amplitude and frequency are processed. Data is transferred by Bluetooth communication, final; the test report is printed out for clinical.Results: The calibration device is developed, it can detect the important performance parameters of preservation box, it can ensure the safety of patient's blood transfusion. Conclusion: This calibration device is simple operation, strong practicability, stable performance; it can detect the technical parameters of platelet thermostatic storage box through experiment to ensure the safety and quality.

Research on the design of an infusion pump system / 中国医学装备

Objective: To design one kind of medical infusion pump. Methods: Based on single-chip microcomputer, 89C52, use the stepper motor to drive the semi extrusion micro flow pump. Results:During the infusion it can real-time monitor the block and bubble in the pipeline and alarm. It can accurately control the transfusion speed and infusion volume. With friendly man-machine interface it can display real-time infusion parameters and alarm signals. Conclusion: The infusion pump system has high precision and reliability, perfect function, and it is easy to use. Clinical practices show that it can effectively reduce the workload of the clinical nursing staff and improve work efficiency. It has high application value.

Design and implementation of temperature control system of high fever / 中国医学装备

Objective: To cool down the implementation of field training injury cold and heat function of electric control part. Methods:To design of peripheral control circuit, the use of STM32 microcontroller software compiled program, temperature control function of the whole device. Results: Though the program running, it realized the function of temperature control device. Conclusion:STM32 MCU has powerful functions, low price, simple use, convenient development advantages, suitable for use in other medical equipment electrical control part.

Therapeutic hypertension system based on a microbreathing pressure sensor system.

BACKGROUND AND METHODS: A novel therapeutic system for the treatment of hypertension was developed on the basis of a slow-breath training mechanism, using a microbreathing pressure sensor device for the detection of human respiratory signals attached to the abdomen. The system utilizes a single-chip AT89C51 microcomputer as a core processor, programmed by Microsoft Visual C++6.0 to communicate with a PC via a full-speed PDIUSBD12 interface chip. The programming is based on a slow-breath guided algorithm in which the respiratory signal serves as a physiological feedback parameter. Inhalation and exhalation by the subject is guided by music signals. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Our study indicates that this microbreathing sensor system may assist in slow-breath training and may help to decrease blood pressure.

Design of Portable Medical Measure System on Palm / 中国医学物理学杂志

Objective: This item presents a feasible scheme of home monitoring device which is a low power and miniaturization equipment for human signal detection, based on single-chip technology. Methods: Taking MSP430F149 as core, the realized functions of system contain real time data acquisition, data processing, data storage, LCD and alarming, keyboard as well as com-munication, replay and reproeessing by host computer. Results: The physiological and biochemical parameters are acquired by system and transmitted to host computer. Conclusions: This design provides a platform for multi-parameters portable detection just as dynamic ecg, ambulatory blood pressure, and so on. It has a good future for application.

Development of a portable low-frequency electronic pulse analgesia apparatus based on single-chip microprocessor / 医疗卫生装备

In this paper, a novel portable low-frequency electronic pulse analgesia apparatus is introduced, which is based on a novel single-chip microprocessor, switching power supply without transformer and OTL power output amplifier. Through this apparatus, multi-group low-frequency electronic pulses can be produced to simulate the same effects as acupuncture. This apparatus has an observably curative effect for dysmenorrhea.

Design of an instrument of measuring individual physical consumption in army training / 医疗卫生装备

Exercise quantity is one of the important indexes used to evaluate physical consumption during training, so it is necessary to design a kind of instrument to accurately measure physical consuption. It must be practical, portable and with a low power consumption. This article introduces the mechanism of measuring exercise quantity. The methods of traditional and acceleration compared, the latter is selected. The design is described from the two aspects of general design and component choosing.

The portable low power military ECG for triage / 医疗卫生装备

The military portable ECG for triage is a kind of minitype monitoring equipment for life information for the purpose that the ambulanceman carry through first aids in frontline. Life information of the wounded will be acquired exactly and quickly applying with this equipment, then quickening the triage and reducing the casualties. The system is based on C8051F310 single chip microcomputer, applying with high accuracy, low offset drift instrumentation amplifier AD620 and ultra low power LCM LMS019 to display real-time and accurate ECG signal sampled. The equipment is easy to use and inexpensive, suitable for mass requirement of our field army.