• DocumentCode
    3299505
  • Title

    Modeling a fixed-fixed beam nano biosensor using equivalent electrical circuit technique

  • Author

    Bajpai, Ritu ; Zaghloul, Mona

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., George Washington Univ., Washington, DC
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    9-10 April 2009
  • Firstpage
    58
  • Lastpage
    61
  • Abstract
    A fixed-fixed beam nano structure has been presented and it has been shown that it can be used as a mass sensor. Successful operation of this device in liquid can be used to make a bio-sensor useful for life sciences. In this paper an equivalent circuit for the device has been proposed with the percentage error in frequency and bandwidth response found to be 2.3% and 18.3% respectively. Similar steps can be used to develop an equivalent circuit of the device in liquid. Existing techniques for the quality factor improvement can be applied to obtain a nano scale sensor for mass detection in liquid. With further processing such a device can be used as a biosensor. Development of an equivalent circuit will enable the analysis of the device by using conventional circuit simulation softwares hence simplifying the study of the nano biosensor.
  • Keywords
    biomedical electronics; biosensors; equivalent circuits; nanobiotechnology; bandwidth response; circuit simulation; equivalent electrical circuit; fixed-fixed beam nanobiosensor; frequency response; mass sensor; quality factor improvement; Bandwidth; Biosensors; Circuit simulation; Electrodes; Equivalent circuits; Micromechanical devices; Q factor; Resonant frequency; Software tools; Zinc oxide;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Life Science Systems and Applications Workshop, 2009. LiSSA 2009. IEEE/NIH
  • Conference_Location
    Bethesda, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4292-8
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4293-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/LISSA.2009.4906709
  • Filename
    4906709