Interface and gate bias dependence responses of sensing organic thin-film transistors

Biosensors and Bioelectronics

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 782-788

  Tanese, Maria Cristina ^a   Fine, Daniel ^b   Dodabalapur, Ananth ^b   Torsi, Luisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Conducting polymers; Sensing electronics; Sensing organic thin film transistors

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; GATES (TRANSISTOR); INTERFACES (MATERIALS); SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; THIN FILM TRANSISTORS;

GATE DIELECTRICS; ORGANIC THIN-FILM TRANSISTORS; TRANSIENT SOURCE-DRAIN CURRENTS; TRANSISTOR SENSORS;

BIOSENSORS;

PENTANOL;

ARTICLE; BIOSENSOR; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; DOPING; FILM; SCISEARCH; SEMICONDUCTOR;

AMPLIFIERS; ARTIFACTS; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSISTORS;

EID: 26944444693     PISSN: 09565663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2005.01.016     Document Type: Article

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