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Dual-gate polysilicon nanoribbon biosensors enable high sensitivity detection of proteins

Dual-gate polysilicon nanoribbon biosensors enable high sensitivity detection of proteins
Dual-gate polysilicon nanoribbon biosensors enable high sensitivity detection of proteins
We demonstrate the advantages of dual-gate polysilicon nanoribbon biosensors with a comprehensive evaluation of different measurement schemes for pH and protein sensing. In particular, we compare the detection of voltage and current changes when top- and bottom-gate bias is applied. Measurements of pH show that a large voltage shift of 491 mV pH-1 is obtained in the subthreshold region when the top-gate is kept at a fixed potential and the bottom-gate is varied (voltage sweep). This is an improvement of 16 times over the 30 mV pH-1 measured using a top-gate sweep with the bottom-gate at a fixed potential. A similar large voltage shift of 175 mV is obtained when the protein avidin is sensed using a bottom-gate sweep. This is an improvement of 20 times compared with the 8.8 mV achieved from a top-gate sweep. Current measurements using bottom-gate sweeps do not deliver the same signal amplification as when using bottom-gate sweeps to measure voltage shifts. Thus, for detecting a small signal change on protein binding, it is advantageous to employ a double-gate transistor and to measure a voltage shift using a bottom-gate sweep. For top-gate sweeps, the use of a dual-gate transistor enables the current sensitivity to be enhanced by applying a negative bias to the bottom-gate to reduce the carrier concentration in the nanoribbon. For pH measurements, the current sensitivity increases from 65% to 149% and for avidin sensing it increases from 1.4% to 2.5%.
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Zeimpekis, I., Sun, K., Hu, C., Ditshego, N.M.J., Thomas, O., de Planque, M.R.R., Chong, H.M.H., Morgan, H. and Ashburn, P. (2016) Dual-gate polysilicon nanoribbon biosensors enable high sensitivity detection of proteins. Nanotechnology, 27 (16), [165502]. (doi:10.1088/0957-4484/27/16/165502).

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We demonstrate the advantages of dual-gate polysilicon nanoribbon biosensors with a comprehensive evaluation of different measurement schemes for pH and protein sensing. In particular, we compare the detection of voltage and current changes when top- and bottom-gate bias is applied. Measurements of pH show that a large voltage shift of 491 mV pH-1 is obtained in the subthreshold region when the top-gate is kept at a fixed potential and the bottom-gate is varied (voltage sweep). This is an improvement of 16 times over the 30 mV pH-1 measured using a top-gate sweep with the bottom-gate at a fixed potential. A similar large voltage shift of 175 mV is obtained when the protein avidin is sensed using a bottom-gate sweep. This is an improvement of 20 times compared with the 8.8 mV achieved from a top-gate sweep. Current measurements using bottom-gate sweeps do not deliver the same signal amplification as when using bottom-gate sweeps to measure voltage shifts. Thus, for detecting a small signal change on protein binding, it is advantageous to employ a double-gate transistor and to measure a voltage shift using a bottom-gate sweep. For top-gate sweeps, the use of a dual-gate transistor enables the current sensitivity to be enhanced by applying a negative bias to the bottom-gate to reduce the carrier concentration in the nanoribbon. For pH measurements, the current sensitivity increases from 65% to 149% and for avidin sensing it increases from 1.4% to 2.5%.

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Accepted/In Press date: 18 February 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 8 March 2016
Published date: 8 March 2016
Organisations: Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnology

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Local EPrints ID: 388330
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/388330
ISSN: 0957-4484
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ORCID for I. Zeimpekis: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7455-1599
ORCID for M.R.R. de Planque: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-8787-0513
ORCID for H.M.H. Chong: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7110-5761
ORCID for H. Morgan: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4850-5676

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Author: I. Zeimpekis ORCID iD
Author: K. Sun
Author: C. Hu
Author: N.M.J. Ditshego
Author: O. Thomas
Author: M.R.R. de Planque ORCID iD
Author: H.M.H. Chong ORCID iD
Author: H. Morgan ORCID iD
Author: P. Ashburn

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