Enhanced sensing of nonpolar volatile organic compounds by silicon nanowire field effect transistors

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 5620-5626

  Paska, Yair ^a   Stelzner, Thomas ^b   Christiansen, Silke ^b,c   Haick, Hossam ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

Author keywords

nanowire; nonpolar; sensor; silicon; transistor; volatile organic compound

Indexed keywords

CHARGED SURFACE STATE; CHEMICAL SPECIES; CONDUCTIVITY CHANGES; CONFORMATIONAL CHANGE; DIRECT DETECTION; EFFECTIVE DIPOLE MOMENTS; LOW SENSITIVITY; NON-POLAR; ORGANIC MONOLAYERS; SEMIEMPIRICAL MODELS; SI-O-SI BOND; SILANE MONOLAYERS; SILICON NANOWIRE FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTORS;

CHEMICAL DETECTION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MESFET DEVICES; MONOLAYERS; NANOWIRES; SENSORS; SILICON; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON OXIDES; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

ORGANIC FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS;

NANOWIRE; SILANE DERIVATIVE; SILICON; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; SEMICONDUCTOR;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; NANOWIRES; SILANES; SILICON; TRANSISTORS, ELECTRONIC; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 79961051492     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn201184c     Document Type: Conference Paper

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