Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRON DEVICES
Volume 68, Issue 6, Pages 2965-2970Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2021.3075421
Keywords
Sensors; Silicon; Field effect transistors; Schottky barriers; Electrolytes; Biosensors; Noise measurement; Dual-gated field-effect transistors (DG-FETs); field-effect transistor (FET) biosensors; noise; Schottky contact
Funding
- National Science Foundation [1128673, 1449395]
- Directorate For Engineering [1128673] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Div Of Electrical, Commun & Cyber Sys [1128673] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The study analyzed the low-frequency noise of dual-gated field-effect transistor biosensors with Schottky contacts, finding that the flicker noise at the sensing insulator-semiconductor interface was the major noise source. Additionally, the research suggested that the DG structure offers advantages over its single-gated counterpart in terms of signal gain.
We analyzed the low-frequency noise (LFN) of dual-gated field-effect transistor (DG-FET) biosensors with Schottky contacts. We found the flicker noise at the sensing insulator-semiconductor interface to be the major noise source while employing Schottky contacts to have minimal noise contribution with a sufficiently large back-gate bias voltage. The measured noise dependence on transconductance further indicated the presence of a nonuniform energy distribution of interface trap density at the said sensing interface. Based on these findings, we argued that the DG structure is advantageous over its single-gated (SG) counterpart; although they possess the same intrinsic lower limit of detection (LLOD), the former could offer a larger signal gain at the optimum LLOD thanks to sufficient channel carrier supply through back-gating instead of biasing the sensing interface toward band edge with higher trap density.
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