@article{OberlaenderBrommWendeleretal.2015,
  author    = {Oberl{\"a}nder, Jan and Bromm, Alexander and Wendeler, Luisa and Iken, Heiko and Palomar Duran, Marlena and Greeff, Anton and Kirchner, Patrick and Keusgen, Michael and Sch{\"o}ning, Michael Josef},
  title     = {Towards a biosensor to monitor the sterilisation efficiency of aseptic filling machines},
  series = {Physica status solidi (a)},
  volume    = {212},
  journal   = {Physica status solidi (a)},
  number    = {6},
  publisher = {Wiley},
  address   = {Weinheim},
  issn      = {1862-6319},
  doi       = {10.1002/pssa.201431900},
  pages     = {1299 -- 1305},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {Sterilisation processes are compulsory in medicine, pharmacy, and food industries to prevent infections of consumers and microbiological contaminations of products. Monitoring the sterilisation by conventional microbiological methods is time- and lab-consuming. To overcome this problem, in this work a novel biosensor has been proposed. The sensor enables a fast method to evaluate sterilisation processes. By means of thin-film technology the sensor's transducer structures in form of IDEs (interdigitated electrodes) have been fabricated on a silicon substrate. Physical characterisation of the developed sensor was done by AFM, SEM, and profilometry. Impedance analyses were conducted for the electrical characterisation. As microbiological layer spores of B. atrophaeus have been immobilised on the sensing structure; spores of this type are a well-known sterilisation test organism. Impedance measurements at a fixed frequency over time were performed to monitor the immobilisation process. A sterilisation process according to aseptic filling machines was applied to demonstrate the sensor functionality. After both, immobilisation and sterilisation, a change in impedance could successfully be detected.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{OberlaenderJildehKirchneretal.2015,
  author    = {Oberl{\"a}nder, Jan and Jildeh, Zaid B. and Kirchner, Patrick and Wendeler, Luisa and Bromm, Alexander and Iken, Heiko and Wagner, Patrick and Keusgen, Michael and Sch{\"o}ning, Michael Josef},
  title     = {Study of Interdigitated Electrode Arrays Using Experiments and Finite Element Models for the Evaluation of Sterilization Processes},
  series = {Sensors},
  volume    = {15},
  journal   = {Sensors},
  number    = {10},
  publisher = {MDPI},
  address   = {Basel},
  issn      = {1424-8220},
  doi       = {10.3390/s151026115},
  pages     = {26115 -- 26127},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {In this work, a sensor to evaluate sterilization processes with hydrogen peroxide vapor has been characterized. Experimental, analytical and numerical methods were applied to evaluate and study the sensor behavior. The sensor set-up is based on planar interdigitated electrodes. The interdigitated electrode structure consists of 614 electrode fingers spanning over a total sensing area of 20 mm2. Sensor measurements were conducted with and without microbiological spores as well as after an industrial sterilization protocol. The measurements were verified using an analytical expression based on a first-order elliptical integral. A model based on the finite element method with periodic boundary conditions in two dimensions was developed and utilized to validate the experimental findings.},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{OberlaenderJildehKirchneretal.2015,
  author    = {Oberl{\"a}nder, Jan and Jildeh, Zaid B. and Kirchner, Patrick and Wendeler, Luisa and Bromm, Alexander and Iken, Heiko and Wagner, Patrick and Keusgen, Michael and Sch{\"o}ning, Michael Josef},
  title     = {Experimental and numerical evaluation of interdigitated electrode array for monitoring gaseous sterilization processes},
  series = {12. Dresdner Sensor-Symposium 2015},
  booktitle = {12. Dresdner Sensor-Symposium 2015},
  doi       = {10.5162/12dss2015/P3.11},
  pages     = {163 -- 168},
  year      = {2015},
  language  = {en}
}