meLAB Archive News

November  2024

Publication News! 🎉
Our latest research paper in IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques is now available in the Early Access section on IEEE Xplore!
This work presents the first-ever fully integrated two-port rectenna, multisite implantable wireless-powered system designed to support self-powering and self-reporting capabilities for “smart” vascular implantable networks.

Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/eVBqFcyU 

October  2024

Our Kevin poster presentation at IEEE SENSORS conference in Japan 🇯🇵 

New publication alert 🚨 🧲 🧠

Our new article as part of our BRAINSTORM project titled “Microfabrication Technologies for Nanoinvasive and High-Resolution Magnetic hashtag#Neuromodulation” has been published at Advanced Science Journal:

https://lnkd.in/etDfdJAu

Exciting publication is now available.

🧲Minimizing Motion Artifacts in Biomagnetic Measurements🧲

Proud to share the latest publication by Neuranics led by Negin Ghahremani Arekhloo, Clinical Scientist, on reducing motion artifacts in biomagnetic measurements with hashtag#TMR sensors, which can be up to 10x stronger than the signal in ambient environments.

Another exciting publication from Glasgow Microelectronics (meLAB) is now available online!

https://lnkd.in/d7YtSAK8

This work titled “On the Piezoelectric Properties of Zinc Oxide Thin Films Synthesized by Plasma Assisted DC Sputter Deposition” has been recently published in Advanced Materials Interfaces journal, and delves into statistical approaches for understanding, optimising and predicting energy harvesting and sensing capabilities of piezoelectric zinc oxide (ZnO) via a novel plasma-assisted magnetron sputtering (PA-MS) method.

This research was conducted by PhD student Michael Mckinlay at the University of Glasgow, and supervised by Prof Des Gibson, Prof Hadi Heidari and Dr Carlos Garcia Nuñez.

September  2024

Our Michael presenting hashtag#TENG at the E-MRS in Poland 🇵🇱

Thank you for your generous donations! These incredible tools have us eager to achieve valuable scientific breakthroughs.

Thanks João Valente and Morteza Amjadi for your facilitation and your great help in the installation process.

Last week, our team Stavroula Kapoulea, Zeeshan Ali, Hossein Eslahi and Mohammed Waqas Mughal had the privilege of presenting our research on interfacing qubits and control/readout electronics using hashtag#CryoCMOS FD-SOI technology at the Silicon Quantum Electronics Workshop (hashtag#SiQEW) in Davos, Switzerland 🇨🇭

We’re proud to announce that four of our papers have been accepted for presentation at the prestigious IEEE Sensors Conference 2024 in Kobe, Japan this October! 🎉

https://lnkd.in/ekesfTaa

Here’s a preview of our groundbreaking research at the University of Glasgow:

📄 An ultra-sensitive malaria detection platform based on magnetic biosensors
Yuanxi Cheng, Rik van Haren, Huxi Wang, Lisa Ranford Cartwright, Nosrat Mirzai, Hadi Heidari

📄 A flexible and self-powered chitosan-BaTiO3 composite pressure sensor for e-skin applications
Zhao Wang, Yalagala Bhavani Prasad, Hadi Heidari, Andrew Feeney

📄 Study of triboelectric potential for tunable contact-electrification field effect transistors
Michael Mckinlay, Mahdieh Shojaei Baghini (Maddy), Manel Pelayo Garcia, Yalagala Bhavani Prasad, Des Gibson, Carlos Garcia Nuñez
(https://lnkd.in/d-YmiEy7)

📄 Deep-N-Well-Assisted CMOS Photovoltaic Micro-Cells for Powering the Wearable Sensors
Roghaieh Parvizi, Fiheon Imroze, Jinwei Zhao, Martin Weides, Muhammad Ali Imran, and Hadi Heidari

August  2024

Our latest paper, “Study of triboelectric potential for tunable contact-electrification field effect transistors” is now available in IEEE Sensors Letters. This novel study investigates the relation between triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) mechanical properties with IV characteristics of an N-type MOSFET, utilising state-of-the-art deposition techniques and electronic integration.

👥 This work was conducted by PhD student Michael Mckinlay, and co-authors Mahdieh Shojaei Baghini (Maddy), Dr Manel Pelayo Garcia, Yalagala Bhavani Prasad, Hadi Heidari, Des Gibson, and principal investigator Dr Carlos Garcia Nuñez . With support from both Glasgow Microelectronics (meLAB) and Institute of Thin Films, Sensors and Imaging (ITFSI). 🤝

July 2024

It was a pleasure to host our European partners from CROSSBRAIN project in University of Glasgow Advanced Research Centre 🧠 🇪🇺

June 2024

 Huge congratulations to two of our PhD graduates, Dr (Judy)Jungang Zhang and Dr Eve McGlynn on their graduation today from James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow!

Excited to share that our own Antonia Pavlidou represented us at the IEEE hashtag#PRIME2024 conference in hashtag#Cyprus last week! 🎉 She presented her research paper on “Hardware Modelling and Testing of a Rotating Neuron Reservoir.” Proud of her accomplishments and looking forward to seeing the impact of her work in the field.
hashtag#IEEEPRIME2024
James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow

We are proud to announce the development of two new tape-outs, the AltnaQ and the cryo-CMOS chips, designed in GlobalFoundries 22nm technology to perform optimally at room and cryogenic temperatures as part of two Innovate UK projects Altnahara and Cryo-CMOS.

The first design is within the “Altnaharra” project, led by Quantum Motion, our team at the James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, tape-outed the AltnaQ chip that features a double-balanced RF up-conversion mixer, a filter with an integrated buffer showcasing a novel de-embedding technique, and several passive elements for cryogenic characterization, all designed to meet stringent industry standards.

The second design is a collaborative project called “cryo-CMOS” led by sureCore Ltd to accelerate the development of quantum computing IP. The cryo-CMOS chip includes two types of Digital to Analogue Converters (DACs): a current steering DAC and a capacitive DAC. Additionally, it features a clock driver circuit and a memory block. These IPs will be tested at cryogenic temperatures down to 4K to address the significant interconnect bottleneck in the quantum computing system.

We had a fantastic time at the group away day at Aberfoyle.

May 2024

Congratulations to Mahdieh as she published her paper in Transactions on Electron Devices!

Yuqi Ding presents her research entitled ‘A Physical Reservoir Computing Processor for ECG-to-PCG Signals Prediction’ at the IEE ISCAS conference in Singapore! Congratulations!

The BRAINSTORM Consortium meets in Erlangen, Germnay and successfully passes the first review.

The Centre for Neurotechnology annual Meeting- Laura, Mahdieh, Maria, Danial, Angel and Tala present thier posters at the Centre for Neurotechnology event in Glasgow.

April 2024

We welcome Paria and Tara to the group who will work on the CanDoIt project focusing on improving breast cancer diagnosis.

Welcome Rik Van Haren from Einhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, who will complete a Masters placement project with us on point of care diagnostics for Malaria.

DIELECT Kick off meeting. Judy, Hadi, Bhavani, Venkat and Pari meet to discuss the new project DIELECT which aims to create a new roll laminating printing set up for scalable electronics.

March 2024

We welcome Professor Ali Khaleghi from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology to present his work on wearable sensors.

Maria launches her start up company NEUROBITE which aims to manufacture transient implantable neural probes.

We celebrate International womens day at the Schol of Engineering!

February 2024

• We welcome Angel as a new PhD student and Joao Valente as Research Technologist.

January 2024

• Congratulations to Zeeshan Ali and team who published a journal article in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. Read the full article ‘Impact of Receiver Thermal Noise and PLL RMS Jitter in Radar Measurements‘.
• Our EU project CROSSBRAIN passes first Review meeting, which took place in Rome.

December 2023

• Christmas Celebrations: The group and their families celebrate a Christmas night out at COSMO World Buffet.

• Laura, Negin, Priyanka and Pari present their latest research at International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS), Istanbul, Turkey.

November 2023

• We celebrate the successful spin out of Neuranics and say goodbye to three meLAB members, Asfand, Siming and Finlay, with a dinner event in Glasgow.
• Welcome Danial to the Team
• Congratulations to our new Dr (Judy) Jungang Zhang on passing her viva with flying colors, earning her doctorate!

October 2023

• Halloween fun: The meLAB group took part in a Halloween themed bake-off where Katie was crowned the spookiest baker.

• Congratulations to Antonia for her first journal publication entitled ‘Spontaneous Muscle Activity Classification with Delay-Based Reservoir Computing‘ publshed in APL Machine Learning. 
• Professor Heidari and other colleagues from the University of Glasgow speak at Scottish Parliament as part of the Cross-Party Group on Science and Technology.

• Negin and the Neuranics team hosted the annual Magnetomyography Workshop. World-leading academics and clinicians in the field came to Glasgow to discuss thier latest work- it was an inspiring event!

September 2023

• New academic year. This September we welcome Hossien and Farman as Post-Doctoral researchers on th CryoCMOS project. Michael and Kirsten join meLAB as PhD students, working on energy harvesting devices, and gravitational wave sensors respectively.
• Eve McGlynn Viva Success! The group celebrated the success of Dr Eve McGlynn passing her PhD viva. Well done for all your hard work!

August 2023

• Dr Carlos Garcia Nunez joins the University of Glasgow as Lecturer in Electronics and Nanoscale Engineering. He also joined meLAB as co-director, leading the research theme on smart materials and energy systems. 
• EPSRC funded our research project “Superconducting Gatemon Quantum Computing Enabled by CryoElectronics” in collaboration with Quantum Circuits Group to boost our reserach on cryo-CMOS for quantum computing.

July 2023

• The President of UESTC visited our University and our labs.

• Prof Maryam Shojaei Baghini vists meLAB. Out guest from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay visits the labs of meLB and gives a seminar on the technology behind an affordable and acurate frequency measurement system.

• Neuranics team down under. Negin, Siming, Huxi and Hossein visited the University of Sydney.

• Crossbrain in Spain. Hadi, Finlay, Laura, Mahdieh and Judy attended the EU Horizon CROSSBRAIN project meeting in San Sebastian.

• Dr Haotian Chen from Biomedical Engineering Division at UofG delivered a seminar to our group.

June 2023

• NEWCAS: Judy, Mahdeih present their research on smart stents and magnetostrictive devices at the International Conference on New Circuits and Systems (NEWCAS) in Edinburgh. Kevin also presents his work on paramagnetic particle detection at his first ever conference. Well done everyone!

Graduation season: Congratulations to Dr Yuchi Liu, Dr Asfand Tanwear and Dr Hannah Thomson for officially graduating University of Glasgow with their PhDs. 

meLAB Away Day: We spent the day at Crieff Hydro reflecting on the previous year, taking part in team building activities and having inspiring discussions to ensure another successful year together.

May 2023

• Good News! Our article entitled “Bioresorbable Insertion Aids for Brain Implantable Flexible Probes: A Comparative Study on Silk Fibroin, Alginate and Disaccharides” has been accepted to the to Advanced NanoBiomed Research! Well done Maria, Eve, Bhavani, Finlay and the team!
• Another good News! Our article entitled “Alignment of Magnetic Sensing and Clinical Magnetomyography,” has been accepted to the to Frontiers of Neuroscience! Congratulations Negin, Huxi, Siming and the team!
• Welcome to our team new member Mohammed who will work as PDRA in the Innovate UK CryoCMOS project! 

April 2023

• Four papers from our group have been accepted to the IEEE NEWCAS 2023 in Edinburgh! Congratulations Mahdieh, Judy, Kevin, Shahid and the team. 
• Our article titled “Self-powered implantable CMOS photovoltaic cell with 18.6% efficiency” has been accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices! Well done Jinwei, Pari, Finlay and the team!

March 2023

• Good news for acceptance of Judy’s article titled “A compact dual-band implantable antenna for wireless biotelemetry in anteriovenous grafts” to the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation! Well done Judy, Rupam, Huxi and the team!
• We celebrate the International Women’s Day (March 8) and embrace equity:

February 2023

• Our CROSSBRAIN project gets a lot of attention in the news:

University of Glasgow: UofG RESEARCHERS TO POWER WIRELESS ‘MICROBOT’ IN THE BRAIN

The Engineer: Crossbrain project to tackle seizures using nanobots

FutureScot: Glasgow researchers to create brain bot to combat epileptic seizures

Health tech Newspaper: CROSSBRAIN project aiming to develop robots capable of predicting epileptic seizures

Innovation Origins: Injectable microbots to predict and mitigate epileptic seizures

UK Daily: Glasgow researchers are developing a brain bot to combat epileptic seizures

• Congratulations to our newest Dr Asfand Tanwear on successfully passing his viva today with minor correction 🥳 Many thanks to examiners Prof Pantelis Georgiou, Dr Andrew Feeney and Dr JeffKettle. 

January 2023

Welcome to our team new member Laura who will work as PhD in the EU CROSSBRAIN project! 

One paper from meLAB  have been accepted for presentation at the IEEE ISCAS 2023 conference in South Korea. Well done Stavroula and Meraj!

Analog Device Ireland visited our lab and discussed the ASIC design advancements to our School.