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Ultra-High Sensitivity Silicon Nanowire Array Biosensor Based on a Constant-Current Method for Continuous Real-Time pH and Protein Monitoring in Interstitial Fluid

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Ali Saeidi, Yann Christophe Sprunger, Luca Capua

In this paper we demonstrate ultra-high sensitivity silicon nanowires pH and protein sensing on the same Silicon nanowire array platform by using a constant current method and monitoring the drain voltage as function of analyte concentration. The injected ...

IEEE2023

pH Quantification in Human Dermal Interstitial Fluid Using Ultra-Thin SOI Silicon Nanowire ISFETs and a High-Sensitivity Constant-Current Approach

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Didier Locca, Yann Christophe Sprunger, Luca Capua

In this paper, we propose a novel approach to utilize silicon nanowires as high-sensitivity pH sensors. Our approach works based on fixing the current bias of silicon nanowires Ion Sensitive Field Effect Transistors (ISFETs) and monitor the resulting drain ...

MDPI2023

Monitoring of Protein and pH Levels in Human Biofluids using FD-SOI Silicon Nanowire Arrays

Luca Capua

Medical research and technological advancements are heading towards tailored healthcare approaches that prioritize individual needs, allowing for more accurate diagnoses, more effective treatments, and better patient outcomes overall. One such approach is ...

EPFL2023

Label-Free C-Reactive Protein Si Nanowire FET Sensor Arrays With Super-Nernstian Back-Gate Operation

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Yann Christophe Sprunger, Luca Capua, Felix Risch, Ron Gill, Aristea Grammoustianou

We present a CMOS-compatible double gate and label-free C-reactive protein (CRP) sensor, based on silicon on insulator (SOI) silicon nanowires arrays. We exploit a reference subtracted detection method and a super-Nernstian internal amplification given by ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Extended gate field-effect-transistor for sensing cortisol stress hormone

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Junrui Zhang, Hoël Maxime Guérin, Luca Capua, Sadegh Kamaei Bahmaei, Shokoofeh Sheibani, Sayedeh Shirin Afyouni Akbari

Cortisol is a hormone released in response to stress and is a major glucocorticoid produced by adrenal glands. Here, we report a wearable sensory electronic chip using label-free detection, based on a platinum/graphene aptamer extended gate field effect tr ...

SPRINGERNATURE2021

Gate energy efficiency and negative capacitance in ferroelectric 2D/2D TFET from cryogenic to high temperatures

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Ali Saeidi, Teodor Rosca, Matteo Cavalieri, Carlotta Gastaldi, Luca Capua, Sadegh Kamaei Bahmaei

We report the fabrication process and performance characterization of a fully integrated ferroelectric gate stack in a WSe2/SnSe2 Tunnel FETs (TFETs). The energy behavior of the gate stack during charging and discharging, together with the energy loss of a ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2021

Double-Gate Si Nanowire FET Sensor Arrays For Label-Free C-Reactive Protein detection enabled by antibodies fragments and pseudo-super-Nernstian back-gate operation

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Luca Capua

In this work we report the first CMOS-compatible label-free C-Reactive Protein (CRP) differential-mode sensors and sensing method based on double-gate Si nanowires (SiNWs) FET arrays. The sensor is first validated for pH static and dynamic sensing, showing ...

2021

WSe2/SnSe2 vdW heterojunction Tunnel FET with subthermionic characteristic and MOSFET co-integrated on same WSe2 flake

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Matteo Cavalieri, Nicolò Oliva, Luca Capua

Two-dimensional/two-dimensional (2D/2D) heterojunctions form one of the most versatile technological solutions for building tunneling field effect transistors because of the sharp and potentially clean interfaces resulting from van der Waals assembly. Seve ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

Antibodies fragments as enablers of cardiac troponin (cTn) detection with extended gate metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistors (EGFET)

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Luca Capua

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2020

Co-integrated Subthermionic 2D/2D WSe2/SnSe2 Vertical Tunnel FET and WSe2 MOSFET on same flake: towards a 2D/2D vdW Dual-Transport Steep Slope FET

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Matteo Cavalieri, Nicolò Oliva, Luca Capua

In this work we report the fabrication, co-integration and resulting performance of 2D/2D van der Waals (vdW) Vertical p-type Tunnel FETs and p-MOSFETs in a WSe2/SnSe2 material system. We demonstrate the best ever reported combined performance in terms of ...

IEEE2019