Biosensors & BioMEMs
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The official GTU curriculum for Biosensors & BioMEMs (subject code 2713102) as prescribed for BE · Semester 1 divides the course into 8 units, covering 77 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2713102)Unit 1 General principles, Definition & Concepts
- Generalized Instrumentation System
- General properties of input transducer
- Static and dynamic characteristics
- Primary and secondary transducer
- Active and passive transducer Signal transduction
- Physio-chemical and biological transducers
- Sensor types and technologies
Unit 2 Physico-chemical transducers
- Electrochemical transducers (amperometric
- Semiconductor transducers(ISFET
- Optical transducers (absorption
- Thermal transducers
- Piezoelectric and acoustic-wave transducers
- Limitations & problems to be addressed
- An Overview of Performance and Applications
Unit 3 Bio sensors
- Catalytic biosensors: mono enzyme electrodes
- bi-enzyme electrodes: enzyme sequence electrodes and enzyme competition electrodes
- Affinity-based biosensors
- Inhibition based biosensors
- Cell-based biosensors
- Biochips and biosensor arrays
- Problems and limitations
Unit 4 Biosensor for physical measurands & their measurement
- Displacement: Capacitive: parallel plate and cylindrical plate transducer
- Types (Change in area of plates
- change in distance between plates
- variation of dielectric constant)
- Variable resistance transducer
- Variable inductance transducer
- Differential transformer transducer
- Variable capacitance transducers
- Electro dynamic & magnetostrictive transducers
- Force balance
- Pressure measurement
- Radiation: Photo sensors
- IR Sensors
- Force Measurement
- Torque Measurement
- Flow: Vortex Shedding Flow meters
Unit 5 Application of modern sensor technologies
- Clinical chemistry
- Test-strips for glucose monitoring
- Urea determination
- Implantable sensors for long-term monitoring
- Drug development and detection
- Environmental monitoring
- Technological process control
- Food quality control
- Forensic science benefits
- Problems & limitations
Unit 6 BioMEMs
- Materials & Fabrication: Typical MEMs and Microsystems
- materials for MEMS - active substrate materials- Silicon and its compounds
- Silicon piezo resistors
- Gallium Arsenide
- Micro machining photolithography
- thin film deposition
- bulk machining
- wafer bonding
Unit 7 MECHANICAL AND THERMAL SENSORS AND ACTUATORS
- Mechanics for MEMs design- static bending of thin plates
- mechanical vibration
- thermo mechanics
- fracture and thin film mechanics
- Mechanical sensors and actuators – beam and cantilever – microplates
- pressure and flow measurements
- Thermal sensors and actuators- actuator based on thermal expansion
- thermal couples
- thermal resistor
- Shape memory alloys- Inertia sensor
- flow sensor
Unit 8 APPLICATIONS OF MEMS IN MEDICINE
- CAD for MEMs
- Biological MEMS materials
- polymer based gas sensor
- micro total analysis systems (MicroTAS) detection and measurement methods
- microsystem approaches to polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
- DNA sensor
- Drug delivery- Types of reservoirs
- Case study: Design of BP sensor
- Affymetrix DNA microarrays
- Cholesterol Monitoring
- Implantable Glucose Monitoring Device
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