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CELL-SIZED OPTICAL WIRELESS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS

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In this thesis, we present a new platform for remotely powered and monitored, untethered, wireless electronic devices made at the size scale of single cells: optical wireless integrated circuits (OWICs). This work details the first cell-scale platform demonstrating parallel produced, stand-alone, untethered electronic devices that are powered and communicate optically. Using this platform, we produce OWIC sensors as small 8 μm x 65 μm x 100 μm (0.00005 mm^3), representing more than a 10,000-fold reduction in volume from the mm^3 scale typical of current remotely-monitored wireless technologies. Methods are detailed in this thesis to produce devices in parallel, without requiring any packaging or assembly steps on a per-device basis, yielding approximately 10,000 devices per square inch. To use these tiny devices in a variety of environments, new methods are presented for precise manipulation and delivery OWICs. We demonstrate the potential of OWICs by creating proof-of-concept sensors that remotely measure voltage, temperature, pressure, and solution conductivity in a variety of environments, including experiments conducted in microfluidics and the brain of a living mouse. We further present more sophisticated CMOS-integrated OWICs developed for monitoring neural signals. Finally, we demonstrate the potential of the platform for mobile microrobotics by presenting an all optical, cell-sized walking microbot with all dimensions less than 100 μm.

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2019-08-30

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wireless; microbot; optical; OWIC; Physics; batteryless; Sensors; Nanotechnology; Engineering

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McEuen, Paul L.

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Arias, Tomas A.
Ralph, Daniel C.

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Physics

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Ph.D., Physics

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Doctor of Philosophy

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