Advanced Electronics and Sensor Technology

Full course description

This course builds on the knowledge obtained in the concentration course Sensors, Instrumentation and Measurements and provides a deeper understanding of advanced electronics and sensor technology by focusing on three major topics in (bio)medical sensors. First, you are acquainted with applications using surfaces as carrier to generate a sensing principle. Aspects such as the physical and biochemical properties of surfaces and their relation to chemical or biologic activity are discussed, as well as physical and chemical principles that underlay these interactions and methods to study them (e.g. optics, thermodynamics and chemical bond formation). In addition, you acquire an overview of the state-of-the-art technologies which are involved in the detection of biomolecules, metabolites, and organic/inorganic contaminants. You are able to describe the different technical layouts and physical working principles of different types of bio(mimetic) sensors, focusing mainly on electrochemical, optical and physical readout techniques to identify individual molecules.