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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Microchips."”.
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The use of implantable microchips for body temperature collection in cattle
… of these studies indicate that the BioThermo microchips correlate well with RT under thermoneutral conditions. The positive correlation was similar to that in both dry and lactating cattle not experiencing disease events and continued in those cows before and after estrus in the third …
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The primacy of microchips in the security design of embedded devices
Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 123427 Lift date: 2024-04-29T21:58:46Z Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system
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Tunable Microchips for Imaging Protein Structures formed in Breast Cancer Cells
… methodology that employs silicon nitride (SiN) microchips to isolate BRCA1 assemblies from the nuclear material of breast cancer cells. These microchips are coated with adaptor proteins that include antibodies against target proteins of interest. The adaptor proteins are added in sequential …
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Two-Dimensional and High-Throughput Electrophoretic Separation of Proteins Using Polymeric Microchips
… functioning and drug discovery. Polymeric microchips possess a variety of physiochemical properties to match the intended application and their ease of fabrication increases the accessibility of technology to a large research base. In this dissertation, a comprehensive 2-D separation …
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Polymer Microchips for Capillary Electrophoresis and Electric Field Gradient Focusing of Biomolecules
… amino acids was separated in 30 s in these microchips. To create more robust capillary electrophoresis (CE) microdevices with improved separation performance, phase-changing sacrificial materials were developed for solvent bonding of polymer microchips. Devices were fabricated by filling …
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The effect of synthetic jet driving parameters on heat transfer in microchips cooling channels
… crucial. The safe and reliable operations of microchips have a requirement on a junction temperature below 85°C. In order to meet the heat dissipation requirement at the level of 1 MW mˉ² of the next generation microchips, a new cooling approach has been proposed by combining the merits from …
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Genetic algorithm design and testing of a random element 3-D 2.4 GHZ phased array transmit antenna constructed of commercial RF microchips
The United States Navy requires radical and innovative ways to model and design multifunction phased array radars. This thesis puts forth the concept that Genetic Algorithms, computer simulations that mirror the natural selection process to develop creative solutions to complex problems, would be …
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Capillary and microchip gel electrophoresis using multiplexed fluorescence detection with both time-resolved and spectral-discrimination capabilities: applications in DNA sequencing using near-infrared fluorescence
… The feasibility of using this microscope with microchips (glass-based chips) for sequencing was then demonstrated. Results from capillaries and microchips were compared, with the microchips providing faster analysis and adequate electrophoretic performance. Lifetimes of a set of fluorescent …
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Nueva generación de sistemas microfluídicos de electroforesis portátiles y automáticos con detección electroquímica para análisis agroalimentario y clínico
… han suscitado en los últimos años son los microchips de electroforesis por su sencillez de fabricación, así como su facilidad de uso. Las principales ventajas de trabajar con estos dispositivos son la rapidez, versatilidad, portabilidad, reducción en el consumo de reactivos y producción de …
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Towards Early State Disease Detection in Microdevices: Fabrication and Testing of Micro Total Analysis Systems for Bioanalytical Applications
… (PMMA) and thermoset polyester (TPE) microchips for use in protein profiling. To improve separation efficiency and reduce protein adsorption, dynamic coating and poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) grafting using atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) have been used in PMMA microdevices. …
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Optofluidic microchip for biomedical and chemical sensing
… weapons in a sample of a person’s blood. These microchips could bring the capabilities of an entire medical laboratory to the places they are most desirable ‒ the developing world, the battlefield, and the home ‒ and where they could quickly detect Escherichia coli, anthrax, or the Human …
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Wideband RF Front End Daughterboard Based on the Motorola RFIC
… domain to the digital domain — to use digital microchips instead of analog circuit components. Until faster, higher-precision analog-to-digital (ADCs) and digital-to-analog converters (DACs) become affordable, however, some analog signal processing will be necessary. We still need to convert …
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Controlled release microchip
Microchips for constant release are not a new concept, but a controlled release chip, which does pulsatile release at variable time intervals, is clearly more efficient and useful. The process was completely understood about the theory of operation, the manufacturing procedure and the robustness of …
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New Methods for Improving Embedded Memory Manufacturing Tests
… and number of embedded memories inside modern microchips has been continuously increasing within the last years. Since embedded memories have the highest integration density of a fabrication technology they pose special test challenges due to complex manufacturing defects as well as strong …
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Local Signal Processing of the ALICE Transition Radiation Detector at LHC (CERN)
… has been developped which incorporates two microchips. Detector signals are preamplified and shaped (Preamplifier and Shaper Chip, PASA). Thereafter they are converted from analog to digital and are processed (Tracklet Processing Chip, TRAP). This thesis describes the digital signal …
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Microchip Liquid Chromatography and Capillary Electrophoresis Separations in Multilayer Microdevices
… amino acids were carried out in multilayer PMMA microchips. Neither pressure nor voltage applied in a crossover channel resulted in negative effects on the separation quality in the main fluidic path. A fifty-fold reduction in crossover volumes was achieved in next-generation multilayered …
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Investigation of Non-Traditional Applications of the Physical Level in Reconfigurable Computing
… low-level constructs of the internals of these microchips. Through this knowledge, techniques for performing supply chain evaluations are proposed utilizing a non-binary comparison of multiple characteristic vectors between different FPGA manufacturing lots, and FPGAs that have been exposed to …
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A low dispersion 2-GHz comparator
… Inc. With each new and faster CMOS logic VLSI microchips, faster and more precise comparators are needed to verify that the static discipline is being met on the many pins of the integrated circuit. As the error in the comparator is lowered, the VLSI production yield is greatly increased …
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A controlled release microchip
… and the absence of moving parts. Such microchips may find application in a wide array of fields such as drug delivery, medical diagnostics, chemical detection. industrial process monitoring and control, and micro-scale chemical synthesis. A process was developed for producing prototype …
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A combined clustering and placement algorithm for FPGAs
One of the major drawbacks of reprogrammable microchips, such as field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), is an inherent speed disadvantage over ASIC technologies. To mitigate this speed disadvantage, this thesis presents a novel algorithm to improve timing performance at the possible expense of …
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