Semiconducting nanowire field-effect transistor biomolecular sensors

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3119-3130

  Stern, Eric ^a   Vacic, Aleksandar ^a   Reed, Mark A ^b  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biosensing; ChemFET; Field effect transistor (FET); Ion sensitive FET (ISFET); Label free; Nanosensing; Nanotube; Nanowire (NW); Sensing; Ultrasensitive; Unlabeled

Indexed keywords

MESFET DEVICES; MOLECULES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOWIRES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; SENSORS; TRANSISTORS;

BIOSENSING; CHEMFET; FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTOR (FET); NANOSENSING; SENSING; ULTRASENSITIVE; UNLABELED;

FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS;

EID: 56549085472     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2008.2005168     Document Type: Article

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