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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 109, Issue 17, Pages 8523-8532Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp046433w
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Recent studies have shown that semiconductor surfaces such as silicon and diamond can be functionalized with organic monolayers, and that these monolayer films can be used to tether biomolecules such as DNA to the surfaces. Electrical measurements of these interfaces show a change in response to DNA hybridization and other biological binding processes, but the fundamental nature of the electrical signal transduction has remained unclear. We have explored the electrical impedance of polycrystalline and single-crystal diamond surfaces modified with an organic monolayer produced by photochemical reaction of diamond with 1-dodecene. Our results show that, by measuring the impedance as a function of frequency and potential, it is possible to dissect the complex interfacial structure into frequency ranges where the total impedance is controlled by the molecular monolayer, by the diamond space-charge region, and by the electrolyte. The results have implications for understanding the ability to use molecularly modified semiconductor surfaces for applications such as chemical and biological sensing.
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