Dr. Stephen E. Saddow

Department of Electrical Engineering

Journal Articles and Conference Papers

(> 250 technical papers in both archived journals and conference proceedings)

(Selected publications included below. Please see my Google Scholar profile https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=csuKjfMAAAAJ&hl=en for a complete list of publications and my H factor/citation profile.

Saddow, S.E. “Silicon Carbide Technology for Advanced Human Healthcare Applications.” Micromachines 2022, 13, 346. https://doi.org/10.3390/mi13030346

Feng, C.; Frewin, C.L.; Tanjil, M.R.-E.; Everly, R.; Bieber, J.; Kumar, A.; Wang, M.C.; Saddow, S.E. “A Flexible a-SiC-Based Neural Interface Utilizing Pyrolyzed-Photoresist Film (C) Active Sites.” Micromachines 2021, 12, 821. https://doi.org/10.3390/mi12070821

Pérez, N., Muffly, K. & Saddow, S.E. “Technical advance in silico and in vitro development of a new bipolar radiofrequency ablation device for renal denervation.” BMC Cardiovasc Disord 21, 500 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12872-021-02305-x

Beygi, M.; Dominguez-Viqueira, W.; Feng, C.; Mumcu, G.; Frewin, C.L.; La Via, F.; Saddow, S.E. “Silicon Carbide and MRI: Towards Developing a MRI Safe Neural Interface.” Micromachines 2021, 12, 126. https://doi.org/10.3390/mi12020126

Characterization of Schottky Barrier Diodes on Heteroepitaxial Diamond on 3C-SiC/Si Substrates, T Murooka, J Yaita, T Makino, M Ogura, H Kato, S Yamasaki, M Natal, Stephen E Saddow, Takayuki Iwasaki, Mutsuko Hatano, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices 67 (1), 212-216 (2019).
Valence and conduction band offsets at beryllium oxide interfaces with silicon carbide and III-V nitrides, D Koh, SK Banerjee, C Locke, SE Saddow, J Brockman, M Kuhn, Sean W King, Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B 37 (4) 041206 (2019).
Fabrication of a Monolithic Implantable Neural Interface from Cubic Silicon Carbide, M Beygi, JT Bentley, CL Frewin, CA Kuliasha, A Takshi, EK Bernardin, Francesco La Via, Stephen E Saddow, Micromachines 10 (7), 430 (2019).
Development of SOI FETs Based on Core-Shell Si/SiC Nanowires for Sensing in Liquid Environments, R Bange, E Bano, L Rapenne, A Mantoux, SE Saddow, V Stambouli, Materials Science Forum 963, 701-706 (2019).
Demonstration of a robust all-silicon-carbide intracortical neural interface, EK Bernardin, CL Frewin, R Everly, J Ul Hassan, SE Saddow, Micromachines 9 (8), 412 (2018),
GABA a excitation and synaptogenesis after Status Epilepticus–A computational study, KL de Almeida França, ACG de Almeida, SE Saddow, Luiz Eduardo Canton Santos, Carla Alessandra Scorza, Fulvio Alexandre Scorza, Antônio Márcio Rodrigues, Nature Scientific reports 8 (1), 1-16 (2018).
Interdigitated microelectrode arrays based on non-cytotoxic a-SixC1-x: H for E. coli detection, J Herrera-Celis, C Reyes-Betanzo, A Torres-Jacome, A Hernández-Flores, Adrián Itzmoyotl-Toxqui, Víctor Aca-Aca, Oscar Gelvez-Lizarazo, Arely Culebro-Gomez, Alvaro Zazueta-Gambino, Abdu Orduña-Díaz, Janet Morales-Chávez, Rafael Salinas-Domínguez, Stephen Saddow, Katie Noble, Journal of The Electrochemical Society 164 (13), B641-B650 (2017).
Silicon Carbide as a Robust Neural Interface, CL Frewin, EE Bernardin, F Deku, R Everly, J Hassan, JJ Pancrazio, Stephen E Saddow, ECS Transactions 75 (12), 39 (2016).

 

Books & Book Chapters

S. E. Saddow, Editor, Silicon Carbide Technology for Advanced Human Healthcare Applications, Elsevier, © 2022, ISBN 9780323906098.

S. E. Saddow, Editor Silicon Carbide Biotechnology: A Biocompatible Semiconductor for Advanced Biomedical Devices and Applications, Second Edition, © 2016 Elsevier LTD, UK, ISBN 978-0-12-802993-0.

S. E. Saddow and F. La Via, Editors Advanced Silicon Carbide Devices and Processing © 2015, ISBN 978-953-51-2168-8, InTech, DOI: 10.5772/59734

S. E. Saddow, Editor Silicon Carbide Biotechnology: A Biocompatible Semiconductor for Advanced Biomedical Devices and Applications, © 2012 Elsevier LTD, UK, ISBN 978-0-12-385906-8.

S. E. Saddow and A. Agrawal, Editors Advances in Silicon Carbide Processing and Applications, © 2004 Artech House ISBN 1-58053-740-5 © 2004.

 

Chapters

Frewin, C. L., Coletti, C., Register, J. J., Nezafati, M., Thomas, S., & Saddow, S. E., “Silicon Carbide Materials for Biomedical Applications,” In Carbon for Sensing Devices (pp. 153-207). Springer International Publishing (2015).

Christopher L. Frewin, Alexandra Oliveros, Edwin Weeber, and Stephen E. Saddow, “AFM and Cell Staining to Assess the In Vitro Biocompatibility of Opaque Surfaces,” Chapter in Atomic Force Microscopy / Book 1, edited by C. L. Frewin, InTech, ISBN 979-953-307-390-2.

C. W. Locke, C. L. Frewin, and S. E. Saddow, Chapter 10: “3C-SiC epitaxial growth for advanced biomedical applications,” in Silicon Carbide Epitaxy, F. La Via, Ed, Kerala, India: Research Signpost, (2012).

S. E. Saddow, Y. Shishkin and R. L. Myers-Ward Chapter 3 in Porous Silicon Carbide and Gallium Nitride: Epitaxy,Catalysis, and Biotechnology Applications, edited by R. M. Feenstra and C. E. C. Wood ISBN 978-0-470-51752-9 Wiley, New York, © 2008.

Stephen E. Saddow, Marina Mynbaeva and Mike MacMillan, “Porous SiC Technology,” Chp. 8 in Silicon Carbide: materials, devices and applications, Ed.’s:  Zhe Chuan FENG and Jian H. ZHAO, Taylor and Francis Engineering, ISBN 1-59169-023-4 © 2003.

 

Conference Proceedings

Robert P. Devaty, David J. Larkin and Stephen E. Saddow, Editors, Silicon Carbide and Related Materials 2005, Materials Science Forum Vols. 527-529, Trans Tech Publications, Inc., ISBN 0-87849-425-1 © 2006.

Michael Dudley, Perena Gouma, Tsunenobu Kimoto, Philip G. Neudeck, and Stephen E. Saddow, Editors, Silicon Carbide 2004 - Materials, Processing and Devices, Proceedings of the Spring Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Vol. 815 © 2004.

S. E. Saddow, D. J. Larkin, N. Saks and A. Schöner, Editors, Silicon Carbide: Materials, Processing, and Devices 2002, Proceedings of the Materials Research Society, MRS Vol. 742 © 2003.

 

U.S. Patents

(not including 11 Foreign Patents)

  1. Tiffany Miller, Salvatore Morgera, Stephen Saddow and Arash Takshi, “Systems and Methods for Detecting Alcohol, Acetone, and Carbon Monoxide in Breath” US Patent 11,129,545 B1, Issued 28 Sep 2021.
  2. Stephen E Saddow, Fabiola Araujo Cespedes, Gokhan Mumcu, Christopher Leroy Frewin, “System and method for non-invasive blood glucose monitoring” US Patent 16,262,836, Issued 1 Aug. 2019.
  3. Continuous glucose monitoring based on remote sensing of variations of parameters of a SiC implanted antenna, FA Cespedes, SE Saddow, CL Frewin, E Topsakal, US Patent 10,478,101, Issued 19 Nov. 2019.
  4. S. Afroz, S. W. Thomas, S. E. Saddow, G. Mumcu, E. Topsakal, “Implantable biocompatible SiC sensors.” US Patent No. 10,278,629. Issued May 7, 2019.
  5. C. L. Frewin, S. E. Saddow: “Long-term implantable silicon carbide neural interface device using the electrical field effect.” US Patent No. 10,136,825. Issued: Nov. 27, 2018.
  6. C. L. Frewin, J. J. Register, S.E. Saddow, R. N. Meralys, J. J. Pancrazio, “Magnetic resonant imaging safe stylus.” US Patent No. 10,046,165. Issued: Aug. 14, 2018.
  7. C. L. Frewin, S. E. Saddow, E. Weeber, “Cubic silicon carbide implantable neural prosthetic,” US Patent 9,211,401. Issued Dec. 15 2015.
  8. C. L. Frewin, S. E. Saddow, C. Coletti. "Graphene electrodes on a planar cubic silicon carbide (3C-SiC) long term implantable neuronal prosthetic device." U.S. Patent No. 8,751,015. Issued Jun. 10, 2014.
  9. J. Walker, S. E. Saddow, “Noncontact anhysteristic curve plotter and static field to time-varying hysteresisgraph with integrated temperature chamber,” US Patent No. 8,274,278. Issued Sep. 25, 2012.
  10. M. Mynbaeva, D. Tsvetkov, V. Dmitriev, A. Lebedev, N. Savkina, A. Syrkin, S. E. Saddow, K. Mynbaev, “Method of Crystal Growth and Resulted Structures,” US Patent No. 6,579,359, Issued Jun. 17, 2003.
  11. J. B. Casady, B. Blalock, S. E. Saddow, M. S. Mazzola, “Complementary Accumulation-mode JFET Integrated Circuit Topology using Wide (>2 eV) Bandgap Semiconductors,” US Patent No. 6,503,782, Issued Jan. 7, 2003.
  12. J. B. Casady, M. S. Mazzola and S. E. Saddow, “Silicon carbide: germanium (SiC:Ge) heterojunction bipolar transistor; a new semiconductor transistor for high-speed, high-power applications,” US Patent No. 6,410,396, Issued Jun. 25, 2002.
  13. S. E. Saddow, E. E. Funk, and L. J. Jasper, Jr., “Photoconductive Spread-Spectrum Communications System,” US Patent No. 5,596,438, Issued January 25, 1997.
  14. A. Kim, S. E. Saddow et al., “Photon-Triggered RF Radiator having Discrete Energy Storage and Energy Radiation Sections,” US Patent No. 5,491,490. Issued February 13, 1996.
  15. S. E. Saddow, R. V. Garver, and R. Kaul, “Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit Terminal Protection Device,” US Patent No. 4,891,730. Issued January 2, 1990.

Patents Pending/Filed

  1. Saddow, S.E., Cespedes, F.A., Mumcu, G., & Frewin, C.L, “System and Method for Non-Invasive Blood Glucose Monitoring.” US Patent Appl. No 20190231237, filed 8/1/ 2019.
  2. Peter Choyke, Stephen Saddow, “Methods for Treating Cancer Using X-Ray-Induced Near Infrared Photoimmunetherapy,” US Patent Appl. No. 62/859,337, Provisional, Pending, filed 06/10/2019.
  3. Andrew Hoff, Mark Jaroszeski, Stephen Saddow, “Methods for destroying and removing particles, biological particles, viruses, bacteria, and other biological entities from solids, liquids, and gasses,” US Patent Appl. No. 63/036,116, Provisional, Pending, filed 08/06/2020.
  4. Yunghsiao (Steven) Chung, Stephen Saddow, Feng Yu, “Determining Electronic Component Authenticity via Electronic Signal Signature Measurement,” US Patent Appl. No. 63/011,485, Provisional, Pending, filed 04/17/2020.

Editorial Board Member/Reviewer

Dr Saddow has served as guest editor for several journals, most recently the Journal of Materials Research (JMR), MDPI Micromachines and the proceedings of the XVII Brazilian MRS meeting (published in JMR).
He regularly reviews papers in several fields: applied physics, surface and material science, microelectronics, and biomedical engineering. In the past 5 years he has reviewed papers for the following journals: Springer Nature, Scientific Reports, Nature Communications, Physical Review, Reviews of Modern Physics, Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, Physical Review Applied, Diamond & Related Materials, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, IEEE TNS, IEEE Sensors Journal, Sensors & Actuators: B, Applied Surface Science, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Crystal Growth & Design, Revista Mexicana de Ingeniería Química, RSC Advances, Journal of Neural Engineering, Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine, Bioelectronics in Medicine, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, MDPI Ceramics, ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Micro & Nano Letters, Journal of Physical Chemistry, Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, Micromachines, Progress in Materials Science, Surface and Coatings Technology, Journal of Crystal Growth D, Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology, Microelectronic Engineering, Journal of Electronic Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, DIAMOND-D, Journal of Materials Research