A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal

Surface Functionalization of Ion-Sensitive Floating-Gate Field-Effect Transistors With Organic Electronics




AuthorsQi Zhang, Himadri S. Majumdar, Matti Kaisti, Alok Prabhu, Ari Ivaska, Ronald Österbacka, Arifur Rahman, Kalle Levon

Publication year2015

JournalIEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volume62

Issue4

First page 1291

Last page1298

Number of pages8

ISSN0018-9383

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1109/TED.2015.2396996


Abstract

Electrically conducting polymers are advantageous hybrid materials for microelectronic biosensors due to their high bandgap sensitivity, possibilities for nanoscale surface area formation, and well-developed surface bioconjugation strategies. In this paper, we investigated whether those organic conductors can also be used to functionalize ion-sensitive floating-gate field-effect transistors (ISFGFETs) designed to measure biological binding events. We first subjected our device to 100% relative humidity (RH) and proved its viability in such a humid environment. Subsequently, we drop-casted viscoelastic polyaniline emeraldine salt on pristine transistors to construct organo-functionalized devices. The modified ISFGFETs were stable in aqueous environments and sensitive to cationic polyethyleneimine. The directions of the ISFGFET threshold voltage (V-T) shifts agree with the corresponding open-circuit potential variations for the same reaction and pH-sensitive behaviors of Al2O3 sensing layer on the transistor. Such organo-modified ISFGFET sensor arrays are promising alternatives to traditional conductive polymer-based potentiometric biosensors due to their signal amplification, high throughput, and scalability advantages.




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