scholarly journals Super-Nernstian ion sensitive field-effect transistor exploiting charge screening in WSe2/MoS2 heterostructure

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sooraj Sanjay ◽  
Mainul Hossain ◽  
Ankit Rao ◽  
Navakanta Bhat
Keyword(s):  
Field Effect ◽  
Field Effect Transistors ◽  
Point Of Care ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Ph Sensor ◽  
Detection Sensitivity ◽  
Label Free ◽  
Back Gate ◽  
Dielectric Thickness ◽  
Label Free Detection

AbstractIon-sensitive field-effect transistors (ISFETs) have gained a lot of attention in recent times as compact, low-cost biosensors with fast response time and label-free detection. Dual gate ISFETs have been shown to enhance detection sensitivity beyond the Nernst limit of 59 mV pH−1 when the back gate dielectric is much thicker than the top dielectric. However, the thicker back-dielectric limits its application for ultrascaled point-of-care devices. In this work, we introduce and demonstrate a pH sensor, with WSe2(top)/MoS2(bottom) heterostructure based double gated ISFET. The proposed device is capable of surpassing the Nernst detection limit and uses thin high-k hafnium oxide as the gate oxide. The 2D atomic layered structure, combined with nanometer-thick top and bottom oxides, offers excellent scalability and linear response with a maximum sensitivity of 362 mV pH−1. We have also used technology computer-aided (TCAD) simulations to elucidate the underlying physics, namely back gate electric field screening through channel and interface charges due to the heterointerface. The proposed mechanism is independent of the dielectric thickness that makes miniaturization of these devices easier. We also demonstrate super-Nernstian behavior with the flipped MoS2(top)/WSe2(bottom) heterostructure ISFET. The results open up a new pathway of 2D heterostructure engineering as an excellent option for enhancing ISFET sensitivity beyond the Nernst limit, for the next-generation of label-free biosensors for single-molecular detection and point-of-care diagnostics.

scholarly journals Biologically sensitive field-effect transistors: from ISFETs to NanoFETs

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vivek Pachauri ◽  
Sven Ingebrandt
Keyword(s):  
Field Effect ◽  
Gate Dielectric ◽  
Gate Dielectrics ◽  
Field Effect Transistors ◽  
Silicon Nanowire ◽  
Label Free ◽  
Biomolecular Detection ◽  
New Device ◽  
Label Free Detection ◽  
History Of

Biologically sensitive field-effect transistors (BioFETs) are one of the most abundant classes of electronic sensors for biomolecular detection. Most of the time these sensors are realized as classical ion-sensitive field-effect transistors (ISFETs) having non-metallized gate dielectrics facing an electrolyte solution. In ISFETs, a semiconductor material is used as the active transducer element covered by a gate dielectric layer which is electronically sensitive to the (bio-)chemical changes that occur on its surface. This review will provide a brief overview of the history of ISFET biosensors with general operation concepts and sensing mechanisms. We also discuss silicon nanowire-based ISFETs (SiNW FETs) as the modern nanoscale version of classical ISFETs, as well as strategies to functionalize them with biologically sensitive layers. We include in our discussion other ISFET types based on nanomaterials such as carbon nanotubes, metal oxides and so on. The latest examples of highly sensitive label-free detection of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) molecules using SiNW FETs and single-cell recordings for drug screening and other applications of ISFETs will be highlighted. Finally, we suggest new device platforms and newly developed, miniaturized read-out tools with multichannel potentiometric and impedimetric measurement capabilities for future biomedical applications.

Ultrasensitive WSe2 field-effect transistor-based biosensor for label-free detection of cancer in point-of-care applications

2D Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Mosarof Hossain ◽  
Babar Shabbir ◽  
Yingjie Wu ◽  
Wenzhi Yu ◽  
Vaishnavi Krishnamurthi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Field Effect ◽  
Field Effect Transistor ◽  
Point Of Care ◽  
Label Free ◽  
Label Free Detection ◽  
Effect Transistor

scholarly journals Field-Effect Sensors for Virus Detection: From Ebola to SARS-CoV-2 and Plant Viral Enhancers

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arshak Poghossian ◽  
Melanie Jablonski ◽  
Denise Molinnus ◽  
Christina Wege ◽  
Michael J. Schöning
Keyword(s):  
Field Effect ◽  
Point Of Care ◽  
Virus Detection ◽  
Fast Response ◽  
Plant Viruses ◽  
Clinical Samples ◽  
Label Free ◽  
Label Free Detection ◽  
Field Effect Devices ◽  
Long Time

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a novel human infectious disease provoked by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Currently, no specific vaccines or drugs against COVID-19 are available. Therefore, early diagnosis and treatment are essential in order to slow the virus spread and to contain the disease outbreak. Hence, new diagnostic tests and devices for virus detection in clinical samples that are faster, more accurate and reliable, easier and cost-efficient than existing ones are needed. Due to the small sizes, fast response time, label-free operation without the need for expensive and time-consuming labeling steps, the possibility of real-time and multiplexed measurements, robustness and portability (point-of-care and on-site testing), biosensors based on semiconductor field-effect devices (FEDs) are one of the most attractive platforms for an electrical detection of charged biomolecules and bioparticles by their intrinsic charge. In this review, recent advances and key developments in the field of label-free detection of viruses (including plant viruses) with various types of FEDs are presented. In recent years, however, certain plant viruses have also attracted additional interest for biosensor layouts: Their repetitive protein subunits arranged at nanometric spacing can be employed for coupling functional molecules. If used as adapters on sensor chip surfaces, they allow an efficient immobilization of analyte-specific recognition and detector elements such as antibodies and enzymes at highest surface densities. The display on plant viral bionanoparticles may also lead to long-time stabilization of sensor molecules upon repeated uses and has the potential to increase sensor performance substantially, compared to conventional layouts. This has been demonstrated in different proof-of-concept biosensor devices. Therefore, richly available plant viral particles, non-pathogenic for animals or humans, might gain novel importance if applied in receptor layers of FEDs. These perspectives are explained and discussed with regard to future detection strategies for COVID-19 and related viral diseases.

scholarly journals Electrochemical DNA Detection Methods to Measure Circulating Tumour DNA for Enhanced Diagnosis and Monitoring of Cancer

Proceedings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Bukola Attoye ◽  
Matthew Baker ◽  
Chantevy Pou ◽  
Fiona Thomson ◽  
Damion K. Corrigan
Keyword(s):  
Point Of Care ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Clinical Samples ◽  
Label Free ◽  
Ambient Conditions ◽  
Liquid Biopsies ◽  
Current Time ◽  
Electrochemical Approach ◽  
Label Free Detection

Liquid biopsies are becoming increasingly important as a potential replacement for existing biopsy procedures which can be invasive, painful and compromised by tumour heterogeneity. This paper reports a simple electrochemical approach tailored towards point-of-care cancer detection and treatment monitoring from biofluids using a label-free detection strategy. The mutations under test were the KRAS G12D and G13D mutations, which are both important in the development and progression of many human cancers and which have a presence that correlates with poor outcomes. These common circulating tumour markers were investigated in clinical samples and amplified by standard and specialist PCR methodologies for subsequent electrochemical detection. Following pre-treatment of the sensor to present a clean surface, DNA probes developed specifically for detection of the KRAS G12D and G13D mutations were immobilized onto low-cost carbon electrodes using diazonium chemistry and 1-ethyl-3-(3-dimethylaminopropyl) carbodiimide hydrochloride/N-hydroxysuccinimide coupling. Following the functionalisation of the sensor, it was possible to sensitively and specifically detect a mutant KRAS G13D PCR product against a background of wild-type KRAS DNA from the representative cancer sample. Our findings give rise to the basis of a simple and very low-cost system for measuring ctDNA biomarkers in patient samples. The current time to result of the system was 3.5 h with considerable scope for optimisation, and it already compares favourably to the UK National Health Service biopsy service where patients can wait weeks for their result. This paper reports the technical developments we made in the production of consistent carbon surfaces for functionalisation, assay performance data for KRAS G13D and detection of PCR amplicons under ambient conditions.

Label-free detection of DNA using field-effect transistors

2006 ◽  
Vol 203 (14) ◽  
pp. 3399-3411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sven Ingebrandt ◽  
Andreas Offenhäusser
Keyword(s):  
Field Effect ◽  
Field Effect Transistors ◽  
Label Free ◽  
Label Free Detection

scholarly journals Comprehensive Understanding of Silicon-Nanowire Field-Effect Transistor Impedimetric Readout for Biomolecular Sensing

Micromachines ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Abhiroop Bhattacharjee ◽  
Thanh Chien Nguyen ◽  
Vivek Pachauri ◽  
Sven Ingebrandt ◽  
Xuan Thang Vu
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Circuit ◽  
Field Effect ◽  
Field Effect Transistors ◽  
Silicon Nanowire ◽  
Label Free ◽  
Impedance Sensing ◽  
Biomolecular Sensing ◽  
Label Free Detection ◽  
Effect Transistor ◽  
Detection Of Biomolecules

Impedance sensing with silicon nanowire field-effect transistors (SiNW-FETs) shows considerable potential for label-free detection of biomolecules. With this technique, it might be possible to overcome the Debye-screening limitation, a major problem of the classical potentiometric readout. We employed an electronic circuit model in Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis (SPICE) for SiNW-FETs to perform impedimetric measurements through SPICE simulations and quantitatively evaluate influences of various device parameters to the transfer function of the devices. Furthermore, we investigated how biomolecule binding to the surface of SiNW-FETs is influencing the impedance spectra. Based on mathematical analysis and simulation results, we proposed methods that could improve the impedimetric readout of SiNW-FET biosensors and make it more explicable.

Label-Free Detection of BRAFV599E Gene Mutation Using Side-Gated Nanowire Field Effect Transistors

2018 ◽  
Vol 165 (13) ◽  
pp. B576-B581 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chi-Chang Wu ◽  
Yankuba B. Manga ◽  
Ming-Hsun Yang ◽  
Zheng-Shun Chien ◽  
Kuan-Sheng Lee
Keyword(s):  
Gene Mutation ◽  
Field Effect ◽  
Field Effect Transistors ◽  
Label Free ◽  
Label Free Detection

scholarly journals Predicting Future Prospects of Aptamers in Field-Effect Transistor Biosensors

Molecules ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 680 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cao-An Vu ◽  
Wen-Yih Chen
Keyword(s):  
Small Molecules ◽  
Field Effect ◽  
Field Effect Transistor ◽  
Field Effect Transistors ◽  
High Specificity ◽  
Label Free ◽  
Sensing Technology ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Label Free Detection ◽  
Effect Transistor

Aptamers, in sensing technology, are famous for their role as receptors in versatile applications due to their high specificity and selectivity to a wide range of targets including proteins, small molecules, oligonucleotides, metal ions, viruses, and cells. The outburst of field-effect transistors provides a label-free detection and ultra-sensitive technique with significantly improved results in terms of detection of substances. However, their combination in this field is challenged by several factors. Recent advances in the discovery of aptamers and studies of Field-Effect Transistor (FET) aptasensors overcome these limitations and potentially expand the dominance of aptamers in the biosensor market.

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