Composite porous silicon-crystalline silicon cantilevers for enhanced biosensing

Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 509-515

  Stolyarova, S ^a   Cherian, S ^b   Raiteri, R ^b   Zeravik, J ^c   Skladal, P ^c   Nemirovsky, Y ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Cantilevers; Immobolization; Porous silicon

Indexed keywords

CELL IMMOBILIZATION; COMPOSITE FILMS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); POROUS SILICON; SURFACE ANALYSIS;

CANTILEVER TRANSDUCERS; MICROCANTILEVERS;

BIOSENSORS;

EID: 42949107468     PISSN: 09254005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2007.12.038     Document Type: Article

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