A brief literature review on recent progress in nanopore thin film-based optical sensors
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The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECpE) contains two focuses. The focus on Electrical Engineering teaches students in the fields of control systems, electromagnetics and non-destructive evaluation, microelectronics, electric power & energy systems, and the like. The Computer Engineering focus teaches in the fields of software systems, embedded systems, networking, information security, computer architecture, etc.
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The Department of Electrical Engineering was formed in 1909 from the division of the Department of Physics and Electrical Engineering. In 1985 its name changed to Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering. In 1995 it became the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
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1909-present
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- Department of Electrical Engineering (1909-1985)
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering (1985-1995)
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- College of Engineering (parent college)
- Department of Physics and Electrical Engineering (predecessor)
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Anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) material is broadly used in biomedical and biosensing applications nowadays. Most of the AAO nanopore thin film sensors are usually fabricated on a glass substrate. By bonding the AAO nanopore thin film sensors to a layer of transparent polymer thin film (pTF) made with polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), a new type of flexible nanopore sensors has been developed. The AAO thin film based flexible sensing platform has been used for pressure sensing, temperature sensing, angular sensing, and for disease biomarker detection. This short review will summarize some recent progress using the AAO nanopore thin film as the drug storage and release device, the flexible optical nanopore sensors with improved resolution, and several applications based on the optical properties.