A technical paper titled “Wafer-Scale Graphene Field-Effect Transistor Biosensor Arrays with Monolithic CMOS Readout” was published by researchers at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Graphenea Semiconductor SLU.
“The reliability of analysis is becoming increasingly important as point-of-care diagnostics are transitioning from single-analyte detection toward multiplexed multianalyte detection. Multianalyte detection benefits greatly from complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) integrated sensing solutions, offering miniaturized multiplexed sensing arrays with integrated readout electronics and extremely large sensor counts. The development of CMOS back end of line integration compatible graphene field-effect transistor (GFET)-based biosensing has been rapid during the past few years, in terms of both the fabrication scale-up and functionalization toward biorecognition from real sample matrices. The next steps in industrialization relate to improving reliability and require increased statistics. Regarding functionalization toward truly quantitative sensors, on-chip bioassays with improved statistics require sensor arrays with reduced variability in functionalization. Such multiplexed bioassays, whether based on graphene or on other sensitive nanomaterials, are among the most promising technologies for label-free electrical biosensing. As an important step toward that, we report wafer-scale fabrication of CMOS-integrated GFET arrays with high yield and uniformity, designed especially for biosensing applications. We demonstrate the operation of the sensing platform array with 512 GFETs in simultaneous detection for the sodium chloride concentration series. This platform offers a truly statistical approach on GFET-based biosensing and further to quantitative and multianalyte sensing. The reported techniques can also be applied to other fields relying on functionalized GFETs, such as gas or chemical sensing or infrared imaging.”
Find the technical paper here. Published August 2023.
Soikkeli, Miika, Anton Murros, Arto Rantala, Oihana Txoperena, Olli-Pekka Kilpi, Markku Kainlauri, Kuura Sovanto et al. “Wafer-scale graphene field-effect transistor biosensor arrays with monolithic CMOS readout.” ACS Applied Electronic Materials (2023). DOI: 10.1021/acsaelm.3c00706
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