*********************************
There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
*********************************
Atlanta, GA | Posted: September 22, 2011
Paresa Modarres won a Best in Session Paper Award at Techcon, held September 11-13 in Austin, Tex. A Ph.D. student in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Georgia Tech, she is advised by ECE Associate Professor Muhannad Bakir.
Ms. Modarres co-wrote the award-winning paper, "Three-Dimensional Integrated CMOS and High Density Biosensor Array Using Through-Silicon Vias," with Dr. Bakir and fellow Ph.D. student Ramasamy Ravindran.
Some of the current challenges with label-free biosensors include developing robust interconnection solutions and protecting underlying CMOS circuitry in the presence of biological samples. This group's paper describes a novel biosensing platform based on silicon nanowire (SiNW) field effect transistors (FETs) vertically stacked on a CMOS chip with the aid of through-silicon-vias (TSVs). This proposed sensing platform consists of a high density sensor chip (10,000 sensors/cm2) using SiNW FETs where the source and drain of each FET sensor are accessed using TSVs from the back side of the chip.
