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

Garcia Cordero, Erick Antonio  
2018

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 biofluid of foremost interest for analysis due the numerous biomarkers it contains. Recent studies have demonstrated that the concentration of some of these biomarkers in sweat, such as the electrolytes studied in this work, can be directly correlated to their concentrations in blood, making sweat a trusted biofluid candidate for non-invasive diagnostics. Until now, the biggest impediment to onâ body sweat monitoring was the lack of technology to analyze sweat composition in realâ time and mainly to continuously collect it. The goal of this work was to develop the building blocks of such wearable system for sweat electrolyte monitoring, with main emphasis on the passive microfluidics, the integrated miniaturized quasi-reference electrode and the functionalization of the sensing devices. The basic sensor technology is formed by Ion Sensitive Field Effect Transistors (ISFET) realized in FinFET and ultra-thin body Silicon on Insulator technology. This thesis shows the development of a state-of-the-art microsystem that allows multisensing of pH, Na+, K+ electrolyte concentrations in sweat, with high selectivity and high sensitivities (â 50 mV/dec for all electrolytes), in a wearable fashion. The microsystem comprises a biocompatible skin interface that collects even infinitesimal quantities of sweat (of the order of hundreds of picoliters to tenths of nanoliters), which the body produces in periods of low physical effort. One of the main achievements of this work is the integration of Ion Sensing Fully Depleted FETs and zero power consumption microfluidics, enabling low power (less than 50 nWatts/sensor) wearable biosensing. The thesis presents the needed technological processes and optimizations, together with their characterization, in order to achieve a Lab-On-Skin system.

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Type
doctoral thesis
DOI
10.5075/epfl-thesis-8849
Author(s)
Garcia Cordero, Erick Antonio  
Advisors
Ionescu, Mihai Adrian  
Jury

Dr Jean-Michel Sallese (président) ; Prof. Mihai Adrian Ionescu (directeur de thèse) ; Prof. Aleksandra Radenovic, Dr Luc Gervais, Prof. Georgios Fagas (rapporteurs)

Date Issued

2018

Publisher

EPFL

Publisher place

Lausanne

Public defense year

2018-09-21

Thesis number

8849

Total of pages

192

Subjects

Wearable sensor

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sweat analysis

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FinFET

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FD SOI ISFET

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skin microfluidics

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SU-8 microfluidics

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passive microfluidics

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label-free sensor

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biochemical sensing

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heterogeneous integration

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miniaturized Ag/AgCl quasi-reference electrode

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low power consumption

EPFL units
NANOLAB  
Faculty
STI  
School
IEL  
Doctoral School
EDMI  
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September 19, 2018
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/148360
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