Bioelectronics
Department of Microelectronics

Tiago Costa

Publications

  1. PMUT and CMUT Devices for Biomedical Applications: A Review
    Elisabetta Moisello; Lara Novaresi; Eshani Sarkar; Piero Malcovati; Tiago L. Costa; Edoardo Bonizzoni;
    IEEE Access,
    2024. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3359906

  2. An Acoustically Transparent Electrical Cap for Piezoelectric Ultrasound Transducers on Silicon
    Gandhika Wardhana; Tiago L. Costa; Massimo Mastrangeli;
    Proceedings,
    Volume 97, Issue 1, pp. 50, 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2024097050

  3. Feasibility Study for a High-Frequency Flexible Ultrasonic Cuff for High-Precision Vagus Nerve Ultrasound Neuromodulation
    Cornelis van Damme; Gandhika K. Wardhana; Andrada Iulia Velea; Vasiliki Giagka; Tiago L. Costa;
    IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control,
    Volume 71, Issue 7, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2024.3381923
    document

  4. Ultrasound phased array patch on flexible CMOS and methods for fabricating thereof
    Kenneth Shepard; Tiago Costa; Kevin Tien; Chen Shi;
    Patent, US11937981B2, 2024.
    document

  5. A 2D Ultrasound Phased-Array Transmitter ASIC for High-Frequency US Stimulation and Powering
    Hassan Rivandi; Tiago L. Costa;
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (IEEE TbioCAS),
    2023. DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2023.3288891

  6. Hybrid neuroelectronics: towards a solution-centric way of thinking about complex problems in neurostimulation tools
    Sofia Drakopoulou; Francesc Varkevisser; Linta Sohail; Masoumeh Aqamolaei; Tiago L. Costa; George D. Spyropoulos;
    Frontiers in Electronics,
    2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/felec.2023.1250655

  7. Low-cost shaping of electrical stimulation waveforms for bioelectronic medicine with improved efficiency and selectivity
    Amin Rashidi; Francesc Varkevisser; Vasiliki Giagka; Tiago L. Costa; Wouter A. Serdijn;
    In in Proc. 9th Dutch Biomedical Engineering Conf. (BME) 2023,
    January 2023.
    document

  8. Multichannel Current-Mode Stimulator with Channel-Specific Regulated Power Supply
    Francesc Varkevisser; Tiago L. Costa; Wouter A. Serdijn;
    In Proc. 2023 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS),
    Toronto, IEEE, 19-21 October 2023.
    document

  9. An Energy-Efficient High-Voltage Pulser for High-Frequency Ultrasound Medical Applications
    Yidi Xiao; Hassan Rivandi; Tiago L. Costa;
    In IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (IEEE BioCAS),
    2023.

  10. Energy efficiency of pulse shaping in electrical stimulation: the interdependence of biophysical effects and circuit design losses
    Francesc Varkevisser; Tiago Costa; Wouter Serdijn;
    Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express,
    Volume 8, Issue 6, 13 September 2022. DOI: 10.1088/2057-1976/ac8c47
    document

  11. Electronic Platforms and Signal Processing for Magnetoresistive-Based Biochips
    José Germano; Tiago L. Costa; Filipe A. Cardoso; José Amaral; Susana Cardoso; Paulo P. Freitas; Moisés S. Piedade;
    Springer, , 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3447-4_20

  12. Stent with Piezoelectric Transducers for High Spatial Resolution Ultrasound Neuromodulation - a Finite Element Analysis
    I. Dilevicius; W. A. Serdijn; T. L. Costa;
    In proc. 2022 44th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC),
    Glasgow, UK, IEEE, pp. 4966-4969, July 2022. DOI: 10.1109/EMBC48229.2022.9871956
    document

  13. Pre-Filtering of Stimuli for Improved Energy Efficiency in Electrical Neural Stimulation
    Francesc Varkevisser; Amin Rashidi; Tiago L. Costa; Vasiliki Giagka; Wouter A. Serdijn;
    In Proc. IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS) 2022,
    IEEE, October 2022.
    document

  14. Design of a Flexible Transducer Array and Characterisation of Piezoelectric Sensors for Curvature Compensation
    Christiaan Boerkamp; Tiago L. Costa; Jovana Jovanova;
    In Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS),
    2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1115/SMASIS2022-90707

  15. A Parasitic Resistance Extraction Tool Leveraged by Image Processing
    Diogo Dias; João Goes; Tiago L. Costa;
    In IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (IEEE ISCAS),
    2022. DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS48785.2022.9937879

  16. Maximization of Transmitted Acoustic Intensity from Silicon Integrated Piezoelectric Ultrasound Transducers
    Gandhika W. Wardhana; Massimo Mastrangeli; Tiago L. Costa;
    In IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IEEE IUS),
    2022. DOI: 10.1109/IUS54386.2022.9957646

  17. A High-Frequency Beamforming Channel for Ultrasound Stimulation and Ultrasonic Powering
    Hassan Rivandi; Ishaan Ghosh; Tiago L. Costa;
    In IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (IEEE BioCAS),
    2022. DOI: 10.1109/BioCAS54905.2022.9948550

  18. Application of a sub–0.1-mm3 implantable mote for in vivo real-time wireless temperature sensing
    Chen Shi; Victoria Andino-Pavlovsky; Stephen A. Lee; Tiago Costa; Jeffrey Elloian; Elisa E. Konofagou; Kenneth L. Shepard;
    Science Advances,
    Volume 7, Issue 19, pp. eabf6312, 2021. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abf6312
    document

  19. An Integrated 2D Ultrasound Phased Array Transmitter in CMOS with Pixel Pitch-Matched Beamforming
    Tiago Costa; Chen Shi; Kevin Tien; Jeffrey Elloian; Filipe A. Cardoso; Kenneth Shepard;
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems,
    pp. 1, July 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2021.3096722
    document

  20. Bidirectional Bioelectronic Interfaces: System Design and Circuit Implications
    Y. Liu; A. Urso; Martins da Ponte, Ronaldo; T. Costa; V. Valente; V. Giagka; W.A. Serdijn; T.G. Constandinou; T. Denison;
    IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine,
    Volume 12, Issue 2, pp. 30-46, 23 June 2020. DOI: 10.1109/MSSC.2020.2987506
    document

  21. A 0.065-mm(3) Monolithically-Integrated Ultrasonic Wireless Sensing Mote for Real-Time Physiological Temperature MonitoringSyst
    C. Shi; T. Costa; J. Elloian; Y. Zhang; K.L. Shepard;
    IEEE Trans Biomed Circuits,
    Volume 14, Issue 3, pp. 412-424, June 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2020.2971066.
    document

  22. Ablation of piezoelectric polyvinylidene fluoride with a 193 nm excimer laser
    J. Elloian; J. Sherman; T. Costa; C. Shi; K. Shepard;
    Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A,
    Volume 38, Issue 3, pp. 033202, February 2020. DOI: 10.1116/1.5142494
    document

  23. A CMOS 2D Transmit Beamformer with Integrated PZT Ultrasound Transducers for Neuromodulation
    T. Costa; C. Shi; K. Tien; K.L. Shepard;
    In Proc. 2019 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC'2019),
    Austin, TX, USA, IEEE, pp. 1-4, 21-24 April 2019. DOI: 10.1109/CICC.2019.8780236
    document

  24. Monolithic Integration of Micron-scale Piezoelectric Materials with CMOS for Biomedical Applications
    C. Shi; T. Costa; J. Elloian; K.L. Shepard;
    In Proc. 2018 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM'2018),
    San Francisco, CA, USA, IEEE, pp. 4.5.1-4.5.4, Dec. 1-5 2018. DOI: 10.1109/IEDM.2018.8614632
    document

  25. A CMOS Front-End with Integrated Magnetoresistive Sensors for Biomolecular Recognition Detection Applications
    Costa, T.; Cardoso, F.A.; Germano, J.; Freitas, P.P.; Piedade, M.S.;
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems,
    Volume 11, Issue 5, pp. 988-1000, 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2017.2743685

  26. Monolithic device combining CMOS with magnetoresistive sensors
    Filipe A. Cardoso; Tiago L. Costa; José Germano; Moisés S. Piedade;
    Patent, US9567626B2, 2017.

  27. Semi-quantitative method for streptococci magnetic detection in raw milk
    Duarte, C.; Costa, T.; Carneiro, C.; Soares, R.; Jitariu, A.; Cardoso, S.; Piedade, M.; Bexiga, R.; Freitas, P.;
    Biosensors,
    Volume 6, Issue 2, 2016. DOI: 10.3390/bios6020019

  28. Design and optimization of a CMOS front-end for magnetoresistive sensor based biomolecular recognition detection
    Costa, T.; Germano, J.; Piedade, M.S.; Cardoso, F.A.; Freitas, P.P.;
    In Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems,
    pp. 2859-2862, 2016. DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2016.7539189

  29. MagCMOS
    Costa, T.; Cardoso, F.A.; Piedade, M.S.; Freitas, P.P.;
    In Handbook of Bioelectronics: Directly Interfacing Electronics and Biological Systems,
    Cambridge University Press, 2015. DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139629539.015

  30. Live demonstration: A CMOS ASIC for precise reading of a Magnetoresistive sensor array for NDT
    Caetano, D.M.; Piedade, M.; Graca, J.; Fernandes, J.; Rosado, L.; Costa, T.;
    In Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems,
    pp. 1906, 2015. DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2015.7169039

  31. A neuronal signal detector for biologically generated magnetic fields
    Costa, T.; Piedade, M.S.; Germano, J.; Amaral, J.; Freitas, P.P.;
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
    Volume 63, Issue 5, pp. 1171-1180, 2014. DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2013.2296417

  32. Integration of TMR sensors in silicon microneedles for magnetic measurements of neurons
    Amaral, J.; Pinto, V.; Costa, T.; Gaspar, J.; Ferreira, R.; Paz, E.; Cardoso, S.; Freitas, P.P.;
    IEEE Transactions on Magnetics,
    Volume 49, Issue 7, pp. 3512-3515, 2013. DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2013.2239274

  33. Measuring brain activity with magnetoresistive sensors integrated in micromachined probe needles
    Amaral, J.; Gaspar, J.; Pinto, V.; Costa, T.; Sousa, N.; Cardoso, S.; Freitas, P.;
    Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing,
    Volume 111, Issue 2, pp. 407-412, 2013. DOI: 10.1007/s00339-013-7621-7

  34. CMOS instrumentation system for matrix-based magnetoresistive biosensors
    Costa, T.; Piedade, M.S.; Cardoso, F.A.; Freitas, P.P.;
    In Conference Record - IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference,
    pp. 1315-1318, 2013. DOI: 10.1109/I2MTC.2013.6555626

  35. An instrumentation system based on magnetoresistive sensors for neuronal signal detection
    Costa, T.; Piedade, M.S.; Germano, J.; Amaral, J.; Freitas, P.P.;
    In Conference Record - IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference,
    pp. 1074-1077, 2013. DOI: 10.1109/I2MTC.2013.6555579

  36. Integration of magnetoresistive biochips on a CMOS circuit
    Cardoso, F.A.; Costa, T.; Germano, J.; Cardoso, S.; Borme, J.; Gaspar, J.; Fernandes, J.R.; Piedade, M.S.; Freitas, P.P.;
    IEEE Transactions on Magnetics,
    Volume 48, Issue 11, pp. 3784-3787, 2012. DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2012.2198449

  37. An ultra-low noise current source for magnetoresistive biosensors biasing
    Costa, T.; Piedade, M.S.; Santos, M.;
    In 2012 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference: Intelligent Biomedical Electronics and Systems for Better Life and Better Environment, BioCAS 2012 - Conference Publications,
    pp. 73-76, 2012. DOI: 10.1109/BioCAS.2012.6418507

  38. A CMOS circuit for precise reading of matrix addressed magnetoresistive biosensors
    Costa, T.; Piedade, M.S.; Fernandes, J.R.;
    In 2011 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, BioCAS 2011,
    pp. 389-392, 2011. DOI: 10.1109/BioCAS.2011.6107809

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