Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Integrated Carbon Nanotube Arrays: Toward Wide-Bandwidth Single-Molecule Sensing Systems

Nano Lett. 2016 Apr 13;16(4):2674-9. doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b00319. Epub 2016 Mar 24.

Abstract

There is strong interest in realizing genomic molecular diagnostic platforms that are label-free, electronic, and single-molecule. One attractive transducer for such efforts is the single-molecule field-effect transistor (smFET), capable of detecting a single electronic charge and realized with a point-functionalized exposed-gate one-dimensional carbon nanotube field-effect device. In this work, smFETs are integrated directly onto a custom complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor chip, which results in an array of up to 6000 devices delivering a measurement bandwidth of 1 MHz. In a first exploitation of these high-bandwidth measurement capabilities, point functionalization through electrochemical oxidation of the devices is observed with microsecond temporal resolution, which reveals complex reaction pathways with resolvable scattering signatures. High-rate random telegraph noise is detected in certain oxidized devices, further illustrating the measurement capabilities of the platform.

Keywords: CMOS; Single-molecule; carbon nanotube; electrochemical oxidation; random telegraph noise.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Metals / chemistry*
  • Nanotubes, Carbon / chemistry*
  • Oxides / chemistry
  • Semiconductors*

Substances

  • Metals
  • Nanotubes, Carbon
  • Oxides