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Sensitivity Enhancement of Electrolyte-Insulator-Semiconductor Sensors Using Mesotextured and Nanotextured Dielectric Surfaces
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Sensitivity Enhancement of Electrolyte-Insulator-Semiconductor Sensors Using Mesotextured and Nanotextured Dielectric Surfaces

Subham Dastidar, Abhishek Agarwal, Narendra Kumar, Vivekananda Bal, Siddhartha Panda and Akash Agarwal
IEEE sensors journal, v 15(4), pp 2039-2045
01 Apr 2015

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Engineering Engineering, Electrical & Electronic Instruments & Instrumentation Physical Sciences Physics Physics, Applied Science & Technology Technology
We report the fabrication of an electrolyte-insulator-semiconductor (EIS) device with an improved sensitivity brought about by texturization of the functionalized dielectric at the dielectric/electrolyte interface by electrostatic attachment of nanoparticle and mesoparticle. Improvement in sensitivities up to 42% over the nontextured (control) devices was obtained with SiO2 particles on SiO2 dielectric. The sensitivity was a function of the size of the particles with higher sensitivities being obtained with smaller particle sizes. The possible contributions of the chemical modification of the dielectric surface by the aminosilanes resulting in the modification of the surface charge, and of the physical modifications by particle texturization leading likely to enhancement of the surface densities of the active binding sites, were highlighted. A novel design for the EIS reservoir for possible improved circuit integration and manufacturability, involving a two-step reservoir in photoresist was demonstrated. This device was capable of characterizing sample volumes as small as 20 mu L. A 2x1 and a 2x2 array was also demonstrated, which could be utilized for multianalyte detection.

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