• DocumentCode
    3734735
  • Title

    ZnO nanowire-FET for charge-based sensing of protein biomolecules

  • Author

    N.M.J. Ditshego;N.A.B. Ghazali;M. Ebert;K. Sun;I. Zeimpekis;P. Ashburn;M.R.R. de Planque;H.M.H. Chong

  • Author_Institution
    Nano Research Group, Electronics and Computer Science, Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering, University of Southampton, SO 17 1BJ, U. K.
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    7/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    801
  • Lastpage
    804
  • Abstract
    Top-down method was used to fabricate zinc oxide (ZnO) nano wire field effect transistor (NWFET) biosensor. The nanosensor was used to measure the electrical characteristics of lysozyme (LYSO) and bovine serum albumin (BSA) protein solutions in phosphate buffered saline (PBS). The LYSO and BSA proteins are oppositely charged at measurement pH of 7.4. Subthreshold voltage shift of 340 mV and 700 mV due to surface charge effect on the device channel is obtained for the LYSO and BSA solutions respectively. A NWFET sensitivity of 72 % is achieved for the LYSO proteins while the BSA proteins resulted in a sensitivity of 98%.
  • Keywords
    "Zinc oxide","II-VI semiconductor materials","Proteins","Nanobioscience","Sensitivity","Biosensors","Fabrication"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO) , 2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/NANO.2015.7388733
  • Filename
    7388733