Master and Diploma Theses

2012

Andreas Steiner
"Mushroom-shaped microelectrodes on CMOS microelectrode arrays for multisite intracellular recordings"
ETH Zurich, SS12 (Prof. Dr. A. Hierlemann, Supervisor: A. Stettler, M. Lewandowska, Dr. O. Frey)

Soumyaranjan Mohanty
"Body-on-a-Chip: Validation of the Viability of Spherical Microtissues in Microfluidic Systems"
TU Kaiserslautern / ETH Zurich, SS12 (Prof. Dr. A. Hierlemann, Supervisor: Dr. O. Frey)

Bakul Jitendra Vinchhi
"Low Noise Current Readout Circuit for Neurotransmitter Detection"
KU Leuven, Belgium / ETH Zurich, SS12 (Prof. Dr. A. Hierlemann, Supervisor: A. Shadmani, Dr. Y. Chen)

Alphonse Vial
"In-situ comparable culture and transfection of single yeast cells on a microfluidic device"
FHNW, Basel / ETH Zurich, SS12 (Prof. Dr. A. Hierlemann, Supervisor: Z. Zhu, Dr. O. Frey)

Christian Steinbring
"Long-term impedance measurements of single yeast cells utilizing cyclic flow reversal"
University of Basel / ETH Zurich, WS11/12 (Prof. Dr. A. Hierlemann, Supervisor: S. Bürgel)

Andrea Bonetti
"Low-Power and Compact Successive Approximation ADC for Bio-electronic Chips"
Politecnico di Milano, Italy / ETH Zurich, WS11/12 (Prof. Dr. A. Hierlemann, Supervisor: Dr. Y. Chen, P. Meinerzhagen)

Lei Lei
“Characterizing the Single-Cell Impedance Spectroscopy on a Microfluidic Cell-Immobilization Chip”
ETH Zürich, WS11/12 (Prof. Dr. A. Hierlemann, Supervisors: Z. Zhu)

2011

Veerendra Kalyan Jagannadh
“Automated Characterization of Electrodes in a CMOS-based Micro-Electrode Array”
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, India / ETH Zürich, SS 11 (Prof. Dr. A. Hierlemann, Supervisors: M. Ballini, V. Viswam, D. Bakkum)

Adrian Nievergelt
“Cyclic long-term single cell impedance spectroscopy of spatially separated samples in liquid”
ETH Zürich, SS 11 (Prof. Dr. A. Hierlemann, Supervisors: S. Bürgel)

Zeno Schumacher
“Microfluidic Impedance Spectroscopy Scanner for Microtissues”
ETH Zürich, WS10/11 (Prof. Dr. A. Hierlemann, Supervisors: Dr. O. Frey)

2010

Yan Sun
“Analog / Digital Interface for High-Density Microelectrode Array System”
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden / ETH Zürich, FS 10 (Prof. Dr. A. Hierlemann, Supervisor: J. Müller, D. Jäckel)

Muhammad Usman Khalid
“FPGA-based Spike Sorting for High-Density MEA”
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden / ETH Zürich, FS 10 (Prof. Dr. A. Hierlemann, Supervisor: J. Müller, D. Jäckel)

Mark Homenuke
“Microfluidics for Single-Cell Impedance Spectroscopy”
ETH Zürich, FS 10 (Prof. Dr. A. Hierlemann, Supervisor: N. Goedecke)

Darong Fan
“Design and Characterization of a CMOS Temperature Sensor”
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden / ETH Zürich, WS 09/10 (Prof. Dr. A. Hierlemann, Supervisor: M. Ballini)

Tushant Singh
“Impedance Spectroscopy of Yeast Cells”
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, India / ETH Zürich, WS 09/10 (Prof. Dr. A. Hierlemann, Supervisors: Dr. N. Goedecke)

2009

Jan Müller
“High Resolution Measurements of Brain Tissue Conductivity”
ETH Zürich, D-ITET, WS 08/09 (Prof. Dr. A. Hierlemann, Supervisor: U. Frey, M. Ballini)

2008

Thomas Lanz
“Verification of Single-Cell Impedance Spectroscopy Against an Optical Reference Measurement”
ETH Zürich, HS 08 (Prof. Dr. A. Hierlemann, Supervisor: S. Hafizovic)

Jörg Rothe
“Single-Cell Impedance Spectroscopy”
ETH Zürich, FS 08 (Prof. Dr. A. Hierlemann, Supervisor: S. Hafizovic, F. Heer)

Diploma Theses at the Physical Electronics Laboratory (PEL)

2007

Ueli Wahlen
“Real-time spike sorting for high-density recordings of neuronal cells”
ETH Zürich, SS 07 (Prof. Dr. A. Hierlemann, Supervisor: U. Frey)

Manuel Keller
"CMOS electrochemical sensor array for point-of-care diagnosis and genotyping of diseases“
ETH Zürich, SS 07 (Prof. Dr. A. Hierlemann, Supervisor: F. Heer)

Ralf Streichan
„Optimierung eines Mikrosystems für Zellanalyse“
Fachhochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft, Berlin (Prof. Dr. A. Hierlemann, Supervisor: Dr. N. Goedecke)

2006

Stéphane Kühne
"CMOS-compatible wafer-level fabrication of microhotplate-based gas sensors"
ETH Zurich, WS 05/06 (Prof. Dr. A. Hierlemann, Supervisor: Dr. M. Graf, Sensirion AG)

Tobias Suter
"Untersuchungen zur Gasabhängigkeit eines mikrothermischen CMOS-Durchflusssensors"
ETH Zürich, SS 06 (Prof. Dr. A. Hierlemann)

2005

Emanuel Schmid
"Simultaneous quartz crystal microbalance and surface plasmon resonance sensing on the same sensor crystal"
Lund Tekniska Högskolan, Lund, Sweden / ETH Zurich, SS 05 (Prof. Dr. A. Hierlemann)

Livia Seemann
"Microfluidic platform for parallel cell-based sensing"
ETH Zurich, SS 05, (Prof. Dr. A. Hierlemann, Supervisor: Dr. J. Lichtenberg, F. Greve)

Andrea Agnes
"Fast AD-converter for readout of multi-electrode arrays"
Uni Pavia, Italy / ETH Zürich, SS 05 (Prof. Dr. A. Hierlemann, Supervisor: Dr. K.-U. Kirstein)

René Pedron
"Auslese-Elektronik für High-Density Neurochip"
ETH Zurich, WS 04/05 (Prof. Dr. A. Hierlemann, Supervisor: U. Frey)

Stefan Rosanelli
"Microfluidic meium and reagent delivery system for CMOS-based microchips"
TU Graz, Austria / ETH Zurich, WS 04/05 (Prof. Dr. A. Hierlemann, Supervisor: F. Greve)

Stefan Schild
"A silicon bulk-micromachined gyroscope"
ETH Zurich, WS 04/05 (Prof. Dr. A. Hierlemann, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. O. Brand, Georgia Tech)

Olivier Frey
"Autonomous multi-channel system for polymerase chain reaction"
ETH Zurich, WS 04/05 (Prof. Dr. A. Hierlemann, Supervisor: Dr. J. Lichtenberg)