An on-chip electroosmotic(EO) micropump(EOP) was integrated in a microfluidic channel combined with a light-addressable potentiometric sensor(LAPS). The movement of EO flow towards right and left directions can be clearly observed in the microfluidic channel. The characteristics of photocurrent-time and photocurrent-bias voltage are obtained when buffer solution passes through the sensing region. The results demonstrate that the combination of an on-chip EOP with an LAPS is feasible.
李学亮刘诗斌樊平平Carl Frederik WernerKoichiro MiyamotoTatsuo Yoshinobu
For enhancing the response of light-addressable potentiometric sensor(LAPS) and further improving its signal-to-noise ratio(SNR),an optical focusing method is adopted.Experimental research and theoretical analysis reveal that the magnitude of responsive signal is increased by optical focusing,and the SNR is improved remarkably.These research results indicate that the optical focusing is an effective approach for improving SNR of LAPS.
A method was demonstrated based on Infomax independent component analysis(Infomax ICA) for automatically extracting auditory P300 signals within several trials. A signaling equilibrium algorithm was proposed to enhance the effectiveness of the Infomax ICA decomposition. After the mixed signal was decomposed by Infomax ICA, the independent component(IC) used in auditory P300 reconstruction was automatically chosen by using the standard deviation of the fixed temporal pattern. And the result of auditory P300 was reconstructed using the selected ICs. The experimental results show that the auditory P300 can be detected automatically within five trials. The Pearson correlation coefficient between the standard signal and the signal detected using the proposed method is significantly greater than that between the standard signal and the signal detected using the average method within five trials. The wave pattern result obtained using the proposed algorithm is better and more similar to the standard signal than that obtained by the average method for the same number of trials. Therefore, the proposed method can automatically detect the effective auditory P300 within several trials.