Poly-silicon nanowire sensor for sodium chloride concentration measurement

Biomed Mater Eng. 2014;24(1):95-9. doi: 10.3233/BME-130788.

Abstract

In this paper, the poly-Si nanowire sensor was fabricated by top-down technique for sodium chloride concentration measurement. The results showed that the smallest threshold voltage and the best resolution were 1.65 V and 0.41 μM, respectively. Furthermore, the sensor can be reused more than 50 times which maintained acceptable performance and showed good linearity of the calibration within wide range of the concentration. Based on these results, it can be concluded that the proposed sensor has great potential to be used for measuring complicated sample with suitable modification on the surface of nanowires.

Keywords: NaCl concentration; ion sensitive field-effect transistor; poly-silicon nanowire.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Biosensing Techniques / instrumentation*
  • Calibration
  • Electrochemistry
  • Equipment Design
  • Humans
  • Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
  • Hypertension / diagnosis
  • Ions
  • Microscopy, Electron, Scanning
  • Nanowires / chemistry*
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Silicon / chemistry*
  • Sodium Chloride / analysis*
  • Sodium Chloride / blood*
  • Temperature
  • Time Factors
  • Transistors, Electronic

Substances

  • Ions
  • Sodium Chloride
  • Silicon