University of Pennsylvania

Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

Mark George Allen

Min Soo Kim

Mehdi Javanmard

Wen Shen

Pengfei Xie

Naixin Song

The subject matter described herein relates to laminated magnetic cores, methods of fabricating laminated magnetic cores, and electric devices using laminated magnetic cores. In some examples, a method for fabricating a laminated magnetic core includes depositing a first magnetic layer and depositing an interlamination layer of over the first magnetic layer. The interlamination layer comprises a partially conducting material having a conductivity greater than or equal to 10S/cm and less than or equal to 10S/cm. The method includes depositing a second magnetic layer over the interlamination layer. The method can include sequentially depositing additional interlamination layers and additional magnetic layers in an alternating fashion to produce the laminated magnetic core.

Laminated magnetic cores

In some examples, a patterned magnetic core includes a first sub-score and at least one second sub-core. The first and second sub-cores are spaced apart by a gap, optionally filled with material of sufficiently low electrical conductivity. Each of the first and second sub-scores includes a number of magnetic layers and a number of interlamination layers disposed between the magnetic layers in an alternating fashion.

Patterned magnetic cores

A sensor for detecting a target analyte in a sample includes a pair of conducting electrodes that are separated by a gap. An insulator is disposed in the gap between the electrodes. Plural wells are defined by one of the electrodes and the insulator, to expose the other of the electrodes. The wells are configured to receive a sample including a target analyte. The target analyte, when present in the sample received in the wells, modulates an impedance between the electrodes. The modulated impedance, which is measurable with an applied electrical voltage, is indicative of the concentration of the target analyte in the sample. The wells can include antibodies immobilized inside the wells, to bind the target analyte, which can be a cytokine. Also provided are a method for label-free sensing of a target analyte in a sample, and a transcutaneous impedance sensor for label-free, in-situ biomarker detection.

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