• 文献标题:   Fully Solid-State Graphene Transistors with Striking Homogeneity and Sensitivity for the Practicalization of Single-Device Electronic Bioassays
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   WANG C, WU JJ, HE YS, SONG Z, SHI SM, ZHU YB, JIA Y, YE WX
  • 作者关键词:   fully solidstate transistor configuration, practical graphene biosensor, devicetodevice homogeneity, dnazymatic bioassay, subpicomolar pb2+ detection
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
  • 通讯作者地址:   Tianjin Normal Univ
  • 被引频次:   2
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b03528
  • 出版年:   2020

▎ 摘  要

To break through a critical barrier in the practical application of graphene biosensors, namely, device-to-device performance inhomogeneity, this work presents a novel scenario employing a fully solid-state (FSS) transistor configuration. Herein, the graphene sensing unit is completely encapsulated by a high-kappa solid dielectric material, which isolates the sensing unit from solution contaminants and thus homogeneously maintains the extraordinary carrier mobility of pristine graphene in batch-made devices. To create an interface sensitive to biomolecular interactions based on the FSS configuration, a metallic floating gate functionalized by conductive mercapto-phenyl molecular linkers is defined on the top-layer solid dielectric. As the solid dielectric layer beneath the metal floating gate enables a higher capacitive gating efficiency than the regular graphene-solution electrical double layer (EDL) interface, the overall transistor amplification gain is further enhanced. As a proof of principle, a label-free DNAzymatic bioassay of Pb2+ is conducted. Without the traditional one-by-one device normalization, an excellent concentration detection limit of 929.8 fM is achieved, which is almost 2 orders of magnitude lower than that in existing works. The FSS configuration allows enhanced sensitivity and homogeneity, thereby providing new developmental guidelines for graphene biosensors beyond the laboratory investigation stage. Additionally, it has the potential to be universally applicable for cost-efficient single-device bioassays.