Design considerations of silicon nanowire biosensors

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3400-3408

  Nair, Pradeep R ^a   Alam, Muhammad A ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biosensors; Boltzmann equation; DNA; Nanostructured materials; Poisson equation; Poisson Boltzmann (PB); Protein detection; Proteins; Random dopant fluctuations; Sensitivity; Sensors

Indexed keywords

BIOMOLECULES; BOLTZMANN EQUATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOWIRES; POISSON EQUATION; PROTEINS;

POISSON-BOLTZMANN (PB); PROTEIN DETECTION; RANDOM DOPANT FLUCTUATIONS; SILICON NANOWIRE BIOSENSORS;

BIOSENSORS;

EID: 36849051835     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2007.909059     Document Type: Article

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