Nxp B.v.

Sciosense B.v.

Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Ams Ag

David Van Steenwinckel

Viet Nguyen Hoang

Pascal Bancken

Radu Surdeanu

Benoit Bataillou

Peter Zandbergen

Dimitri Soccol

Jeroen Herman Lammers

Peter Dirksen

Roel Daamen

Franciscus Petrus Widdershoven

Viet Nguyen

Thomas Merelle

Filip Frederix

Jan Leo Dominique Fransaer

Anja Vanleenhove

Gerben Doornbos

Mark Van Dal

Youri Victorovitch Ponomarev

Friso Jedema

Hilco Suy

Johannes Van Wingerden

Yuri Aksenov

Casper Juffermans

Dimitri Soccoi

Hans Kwinten

Robert Duncan Morton

Laurent Marinier

In an embodiment a method includes determining, for each capacitor element of a plurality of capacitor elements of a capacitor, an increase of a capacitance of a capacitor element caused by a decrease of a temperature of the capacitor and deriving a dew point from a temperature at which the increases of the capacitances or values corresponding to the increases of the capacitances exceed a predefined limit by generating a set of binary digits, each of the binary digits corresponding to one of the capacitor elements and indicating whether the capacitance of the capacitor element is within a predefined range, comparing sets of binary digits generated at different temperatures and determining a number of capacitor elements for which the corresponding binary digits of the sets are different and repeating the comparison for a sequence of sets generated at decreasing temperatures.

CMOS compatible dew point sensor device and method of determining a dew point

In an embodiment a dew point sensor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a top layer arranged on the semiconductor substrate, a Peltier element integrated in the semiconductor substrate, a temperature sensor, a capacitor arranged at a surface of the top layer facing away from the semiconductor substrate, the temperature sensor and the capacitor being arranged so that a temperature of the capacitor is measurable by the temperature sensor, wherein the capacitor includes a plurality of capacitor elements each having a capacitance, and an electronic circuit configured for an individual determination of the capacitances and a generation of a set of binary digits, each of the binary digits corresponding to one of the capacitor elements and indicating whether the capacitance of the capacitor element is within a predefined range.

CMOS-compatible dew point sensor device and method of determining a dew point

A method for providing an integrated circuit such that first and second sensing electrodes respectively have at their surfaces first and second receptor molecules for selectively binding to first and second analytes of interest; exposing the integrated circuit to a sample potentially comprising at least one of the first and second analytes, providing a first bead having a first electrical signature attached to a first molecule having a conformation/affinity for binding to the first sensing electrode dependent on the presence of the first analyte; providing a second bead having a second electrical signature attached to a second molecule having a conformation/affinity for binding to the second sensing electrode dependent on the presence of the second analyte; and determining the presence of the electrical signature of the first and/or second bead(s) on the first and second sensing electrodes respectively. An IC for implementing this method.

Analyte detection method and analyte detection integrated circuit

The present invention relates to a sensing device with a surface having at least one individual sensing region, wherein each sensing region includes a plurality of binding elements anchored on the surface for binding different specific analytes of interest, at least one of the analyte of interest and its matching binding element having a label for detecting said binding. The present invention further relates to a method of manufacturing such a sensing device.

Sensing device and manufacturing method thereof

A light sensor device comprises a substrate () having a well () defined in one surface. At least one light sensor () is formed at the base of the well (), and an optical light guide () in the form of a transparent tunnel () within an opaque body () extends from a top surface of the device down a sloped side wall of the well () to the location of the light sensor ().

Light sensor device and manufacturing method

An integrated circuit arrangement () is disclosed comprising a substrate (); and a gas such as a COsensor comprising spatially separated electrodes including at least an excitation electrode () and a sensing electrode (); a volume () in contact with said pair of electrodes, said volume including a chemical compound for forming a reaction product with said gas in an acid-base reaction; a signal generator () conductively coupled to the excitation electrode and adapted to provide the excitation electrode with a microwave signal; and a signal detector () conductively coupled to the sensing electrode and adapted to detect a change in said microwave signal caused by a permittivity change in said volume, said permittivity change being caused by said reaction product. A device comprising such an IC arrangement and a method of sensing the presence of a gas using such an IC arrangement are also disclosed.

Integrated circuit arrangement, device and gas detection method

A display device comprises a substrate which carries an array of pixels. Each pixel comprises an array of apertures in the substrate, each aperture of the array having a maximum opening dimension less than the wavelength of the light to be transmitted through the aperture. The effective dielectric constant of the aperture and/or the dielectric constant of the substrate is varied, thereby to vary the light transmission characteristics of the pixel between transmission of at least one frequency in the visible spectrum and transmission of substantially no frequency in the visible spectrum.

Display device

A method of manufacturing a biosensor semiconductor device in which copper electrodes at a major surface of the device are modified to form Au&#x2014;Cu alloy electrodes. Such modification is effected by depositing a gold layer over the device, and then thermally treating the device to promote interdiffusion between the gold and the electrode copper. Alloyed gold-copper is removed from the surface of the device, leaving the exposed electrodes. The electrodes are better compatible with further processing into a biosensor device than is the case with conventional copper electrodes, and the process windows are wider than for gold capped copper electrodes. A biosensor semiconductor device having Au&#x2014;Cu alloy electrodes is also disclosed.

Semiconductor device having Au&#x2014;Cu electrodes, and method of manufacturing semiconductor device

A method of determining the dominant output wavelength of an LED, includes determining an electrical characteristic of the LED which is dependent on the voltage-capacitance characteristics, and analyzing the characteristic to determine the dominant output wavelength.

Lighting unit with compensation for output frequency, and method for determining output frequency

Semiconductor device having Au-Cu electrodes, and method of manufacturing semiconductor device

A method of estimating the junction temperature of a light emitting diode comprises driving a forward bias current through the diode, the current comprising a square wave which toggles between high and low current values (I, l), the high current value (l) comprising an LED operation current, and the low current value (I) comprising a non-zero measurement current. The forward bias voltage drop (Vf) is sampled and the forward bias voltage drop (Vf) is determined at the measurement current (I)&#x2014;The temperature is derived from the determined forward bias voltage drop.

System and method for estimating the junction temperature of a light emitting diode

An apparatus comprising at least one measuring cell () is disclosed. The measuring cell comprises a first cavity (and a second cavity () perpendicular to the first cavity, the first cavity and the second cavity comprising an overlap at first respective ends and a reflective surface () at the opposite respective ends. A beam splitter () is located in the overlap and an electromagnetic radiation source () is arranged to project a beam of electromagnetic radiation onto the beam splitter () such that the beam is projected into each of the cavities. A phase detector () for detecting a phase difference between the respective electromagnetic radiation reflected by the first and second cavity () is also provided. In addition, the apparatus has a fluid channel (), at least a part of which runs parallel to the first cavity () such that the electromagnetic radiation projected into the first cavity extends into said part of the fluid channel. This allows for the interferometric detection of particles in the fluid channel.

Measuring apparatus

The present invention relates to a calibration circuit, computer program product, and method of calibrating a junction temperature measurement of a semiconductor element, wherein respective forward voltages at junctions of the semiconductor element and a reference temperature sensor are measured, and an absolute ambient temperature is determined by using the reference temperature sensor, and the junction temperature of the semiconductor element is predicted based on the absolute ambient temperature and the measured forward voltages.

Self-calibration circuit and method for junction temperature estimation

The invention relates to a method of photolithography comprising the steps of: providing a substrate and forming a layer of a photoresist on the substrate, performing a first exposure in which a predetermined part of the layer of photoresist is irradiated through a mask having a pattern for forming a latent image of said pattern in the layer of the photoresist, performing a pretreatment on the layer of the photoresist to remove a predetermined part of the latent image before performing the fixation. The method provides an improved process window. The invention further relates to a photoresist for use within the method of the invention.

Photolithography

Apparatus for regulating the temperature of a light emitting diode (LED). The apparatus includes a heat sink, an LED mount, and an LED mounted on the LED mount. The LED mount is configured to change shape in response to a change in temperature. The change in shape alters the position of the LED relative to the heat sink, for adjusting heat transfer between the LED and the heat sink. The LED mount may include a laminated portion such as a bi-metallic strip.

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