Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Education
Ph.D., 1982, Electrical Engineering, University of Maine at Orono
M.S., 1979, Electrical Engineering, University of Maine at Orono
License, 1976, Mathematics & Physics, Universit茅 du Benin
Research Interests
- Solid state and acoustic wave sensors (chemical sensors, biochemical sensors, biosensors)
- Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) devices and sensors
- Optical waveguide-based sensors
- Smart sensor systems
Selected Recent Publications
A. Khatun, F. Bender, F. Josse, A.K. Mensah-Brown: Direct Monitoring of Battery SOC Utilizing GMI-IDT Magnetic Sensor, 2021 Joint Conf. of the EFTF/IEEE IFCS, DOI: 10.1109/EFTF/IFCS52194.2021.9604260
N. Post, K. Sothivelr, F. Bender, A.J. Ricco, F. Josse: Multi-Component Sensor Coatings for Identification and Quantification of Four Chemical Isomers: Ethylbenzene and M-, P-, O-Xylene in Water, 239th ECS Meeting and 18th IMCS (2021), ECS Meeting Abstracts, Volume MA2021-01, IMCS 10: Chemical and Biosensing Materials and Sensing Interface Design, Abstract IMCS 10-1702, DOI: 10.1149/MA2020-01352428mtgabs
L.A. Beardslee, C. Carron, K.S. Demirci, J. Lehman, S. Schwartz, I. Dufour, S.M. Heinrich, F. Josse, O. Brand: In-Plane Vibration of Hammerhead Resonators for Chemical Sensing Applications, ACS Sensors 5, (2020), 73-82, DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.9b01651
N.D. Post, K. Sothivelr, F. Bender, F. Josse, A.J. Ricco, and E.E. Yaz: Design of Chemical Sensor Coatings Based on Blends of a Single Polymer-Plasticizer Pair for Detection of Single or Multi-Analyte Aqueous Solutions, Proc. Transducers 2019, 20th Int. Conf. on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems & Eurosensors XXXIII, ISBN: 978-1-7281-2007-2 鈥� ISSN: 2167-0021, DOI: 10.1109/TRANSDUCERS.2019.8808686
A. Khatun, F. Bender, F. Josse, A.K. Mensah-Brown, R.D. Anderson, D. Washington: Micromagnetic Sensor Utilizing Single SAW IDT Shunt-Loaded with GMI Wire, 2020 Joint Conf. of the IEEE IFCS-ISAF, (2020), DOI: 10.1109/IFCS-ISAF41089.2020.9234856
K. Sothivelr, F. Bender, F. Josse, E.E. Yaz and A.J. Ricco: Quantitative Detection of Complex Mixtures using a Single Chemical Sensor: Analysis of Response Transients using Multi-Stage Estimation, ACS Sensors 4 (2019), 1682鈥�1690, DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.9b00564
K. Sothivelr, F. Bender, F. Josse, E.E. Yaz and A.J. Ricco: Obtaining Chemical Selectivity from a Single, Nonselective Sensing Film: Two-Stage Adaptive Estimation Scheme with Multiparameter Measurement to Quantify Mixture Components and Interferents, ACS Sensors 3 (2018), 1656鈥�1665, DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.8b00353
P. Adhikari, L. Alderson, F. Bender, A.J. Ricco and F. Josse: Investigation of Polymer鈭扨lasticizer Blends as SH-SAW Sensor Coatings for Detection of Benzene in Water with High Sensitivity and Long-Term Stability, ACS Sensors 2 (2017), 157鈥�164, DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.6b00659
K. Sothivelr, F. Bender, F. Josse, A.J. Ricco, E.E. Yaz, R.E. Mohler and R. Kolhatkar: Detection and Quantification of Aromatic Hydrocarbon Compounds in Water Using SH-SAW Sensors and Estimation-Theory-Based Signal Processing, ACS Sensors 1 (2016), 63鈥�72, DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.5b00024
K. Sothivelr, F. Bender, F. Josse, E.E. Yaz, A.J. Ricco and R.E. Mohler: Online Chemical Sensor Signal Processing Using Estimation Theory: Quantification of Binary Mixtures of Organic Compounds in the Presence of Linear Baseline Drift and Outliers, IEEE Sensors. J. 16 (2016), 750鈥�761, DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2015.2485784
M. Sotoudegan, S.M. Heinrich, F. Josse, N.J. Nigro, I. Dufour, and O. Brand: Analytical Modeling of a Novel High-Q Disk Resonator for Liquid-Phase Applications, Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, (JMEMS) Vol. 24, No. 1, (2015), pp. 38-49; DOI:10.1109/JMEMS.2014.2365719.
Schultz, J.A., Heinrich, S.M., Josse, F., Dufour, I., Nigro, N.J., Beardslee, L.A., and Brand, O.: Lateral-Mode Vibration of Microcantilever-based Sensors in Viscous Fluids Using Timoshenko Beam Theory, Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, (JMEMS) Vol. 24, No. 4 (2015), 848-860, DOI:10.1109/JMEMS.2014.2354596.
