Low-cost impedance measurements for lab-on-a-chip architectures: Towards potentiostat miniaturization

The development of miniaturized potentiostats capable of measuring in a wide range of conditions and with full characteristics (e.g., wide bandwidth and capacitive/inductive contribution to sensor's impedance) is still an unresolved challenge in bioelectronics. We present a simple analogue desi...

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Autores: Pruna Morales, Raquel, Palacio Bonet, Francisco, Baraket, Abdoullatif, Bausells, Joan, Errachid, Abdelhamid, López de Miguel, Manuel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:2445/152689
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/152689
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Espectroscòpia d'impedància
Insuficiència cardíaca
Bioelectrònica
Amplificadors (Electrònica)
Impedance spectroscopy
Heart failure
Bioelectronics
Amplifiers (Electronics)
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Sumario:The development of miniaturized potentiostats capable of measuring in a wide range of conditions and with full characteristics (e.g., wide bandwidth and capacitive/inductive contribution to sensor's impedance) is still an unresolved challenge in bioelectronics. We present a simple analogue design coupled to a digital filter based on a lock-in amplifier as an alternative to complex architectures reported hitherto. A low-cost, miniaturized and fully integrated acquisition electronic system was developed, tested for a fully integrated three-lead electrochemical biosensor and benchmarked against a commercial potentiostat. The portable potentiostat was coupled to an array of miniaturized gold working electrodes to perform complex impedance analyses for tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α) cytokine detection. This wearable potentiostat is very promising for the development of low-cost point-of-care (POC) with low power consumption.