TY  - JOUR
A1  - Poghossian, Arshak
A1  - Welden, Rene
A1  - Buniatyan, Vahe V.
A1  - Schöning, Michael Josef
T1  - An Array of On-Chip Integrated, Individually Addressable Capacitive Field-Effect Sensors with Control Gate: Design and Modelling
JF  - Sensors
N2  - The on-chip integration of multiple biochemical sensors based on field-effect electrolyte-insulator-semiconductor capacitors (EISCAP) is challenging due to technological difficulties in realization of electrically isolated EISCAPs on the same Si chip. In this work, we present a new simple design for an array of on-chip integrated, individually electrically addressable EISCAPs with an additional control gate (CG-EISCAP). The existence of the CG enables an addressable activation or deactivation of on-chip integrated individual CG-EISCAPs by simple electrical switching the CG of each sensor in various setups, and makes the new design capable for multianalyte detection without cross-talk effects between the sensors in the array. The new designed CG-EISCAP chip was modelled in so-called floating/short-circuited and floating/capacitively-coupled setups, and the corresponding electrical equivalent circuits were developed. In addition, the capacitance-voltage curves of the CG-EISCAP chip in different setups were simulated and compared with that of a single EISCAP sensor. Moreover, the sensitivity of the CG-EISCAP chip to surface potential changes induced by biochemical reactions was simulated and an impact of different parameters, such as gate voltage, insulator thickness and doping concentration in Si, on the sensitivity has been discussed.
KW  - equivalent circuit
KW  - multianalyte detection
KW  - control gate
KW  - on-chip integrated addressable EISCAP sensors
KW  - capacitive field-effect sensor
Y1  - 2021
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21186161
SN  - 1424-8220
N1  - This article belongs to the Special Issue "Field-Effect Sensors: From pH Sensing to Biosensing"
VL  - 21
IS  - 18
SP  - 17
PB  - MDPI
CY  - Basel
ER  -