TY  - JOUR
A1  - Poghossian, Arshak
A1  - Karschuck, Tobias
A1  - Wagner, Patrick
A1  - Schöning, Michael Josef
T1  - Field-Effect Capacitors Decorated with Ligand-Stabilized Gold Nanoparticles: Modeling and Experiments
JF  - Biosensors
N2  - Nanoparticles are recognized as highly attractive tunable materials for designing field-effect biosensors with enhanced performance. In this work, we present a theoretical model for electrolyte-insulator-semiconductor capacitors (EISCAP) decorated with ligand-stabilized charged gold nanoparticles. The charged AuNPs are taken into account as additional, nanometer-sized local gates. The capacitance-voltage (C–V) curves and constant-capacitance (ConCap) signals of the AuNP-decorated EISCAPs have been simulated. The impact of the AuNP coverage on the shift of the C–V curves and the ConCap signals was also studied experimentally on Al–p-Si–SiO₂ EISCAPs decorated with positively charged aminooctanethiol-capped AuNPs. In addition, the surface of the EISCAPs, modified with AuNPs, was characterized by scanning electron microscopy for different immobilization times of the nanoparticles.
KW  - aminooctanethiol
KW  - nanoparticle coverage
KW  - capacitive model
KW  - gold nanoparticles
KW  - field-effect sensor
KW  - electrolyte-insulator-semiconductor capacitors
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3390/bios12050334
SN  - 2079-6374
N1  - This article belongs to the Special Issue "Biosensors in Nanotechnology"
VL  - 12
IS  - 5
PB  - MDPI
CY  - Basel
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bronder, Thomas
A1  - Wu, Chunsheng
A1  - Poghossian, Arshak
A1  - Werner, Frederik
A1  - Keusgen, M.
A1  - Schöning, Michael Josef
T1  - Label-free detection of DNA hybridization with light-addressable potentiometric sensors: comparison of various DNA-immobilization strategies
JF  - Procedia Engineering
N2  - Light-addressable potentiometric sensors (LAPS) consisting of a p-Si-SiO2 and p-Si-SiO2-Au structure, respectively, have been tested for a label-free electrical detection of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) hybridization. Three different strategies for immobilizing single-stranded probe DNA (ssDNA) molecules on a LAPS surface have been studied and compared: (a) immobilization of thiol-modified ssDNA on the patterned Au surface via gold-thiol bond, (b) covalent immobilization of amino-modified ssDNA onto the SiO2 surface functionalized with 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane and (c) layer-by-layer adsorption of negatively charged ssDNA on a positively charged weak polyelectrolyte layer of poly(allylamine hydrochloride).
KW  - LAPS
KW  - lable-free detection
KW  - DNA hybridization
KW  - field-effect sensor
Y1  - 2014
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2014.11.647
SN  - 1877-7058
N1  - EUROSENSORS 2014 ; European Conference on Solid-State Transducers <28, 2014>
VL  - 87
SP  - 755
EP  - 758
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -