Design and Analysis of an In-Plane Resonant Nano-Electro-Mechanical Sensor for Sub-Attogram-Level Molecular Mass-Detection

Autor: Adrian M. Ionescu, Dimitrios Tsamados, Silvia Armini, Patrick Merken, Violeta Petrescu, Cornel Cobianu, Hiroshi Mizuta, Yoshishige Tsuchiya, Faezeh Arab Hassani
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: Extended Abstracts of the 2009 International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials.
DOI: 10.7567/ssdm.2009.j-6-5
Popis: This paper presents the In-Plane Resonant NEM (IP R-NEM) sensor based on the mass-detection principle. The proposed sensor features a mass-detection limit of sub atto gram and the sensitivity of the order of zepto gram/Hz, more than eight orders smaller than that of recent QCM-based sensors. The sensor is designed and analyzed using the three-dimensional FEM simulation. Self-assembled linker molecules and adsorbed target molecules on the beam surface are modelled by adding an extra surface coating layer. We study two different surface detection schemes, top-and-bottom and all-around surface detection. The IP R-NEM sensor is integrated with a MOSFET for electrical detection, and the transient response is studied on the system-level using a hybrid electro-mechanical circuit simulation.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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