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标题：Effect of Al ₂O ₃ Passive Layer on Stability and Doping of MoS ₂ Field-Effect Transistor (FET) Biosensors
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作者：Tung Pham ; Ying Chen ; Jhoann Lopez 等
期刊名称：Biosensors
电子版ISSN：2079-6374
出版年度：2021
卷号：11
期号：12
DOI：10.3390/bios11120514
语种：English
出版社：MDPI Publishing
摘要：Molybdenum disulfide (MoS 2) features a band gap of 1.3 eV (indirect) to 1.9 eV (direct). This tunable band gap renders MoS 2 a suitable conducting channel for field-effect transistors (FETs). In addition, the highly sensitive surface potential in MoS 2 layers allows the feasibility of FET applications in biosensors, where direct immobilization and detection of biological molecules are conducted in wet conditions. In this work, we report, for the first time, the degradation of chemical vapor deposition (CVD) grown MoS 2 FET-based sensors in the presence of phosphate buffer and water, which caused false positive response in detection. We conclude the degradation was originated by physical delamination of MoS 2 thin films from the SiO 2 substrate. The problem was alleviated by coating the sensors with a 30 nm thick aluminum oxide (Al 2O 3) layer using atomic layer deposition technique (ALD). This passive oxide thin film not only acted as a protecting layer against the device degradation but also induced a strong n-doping onto MoS 2, which permitted a facile method of detection in MoS 2 FET-based sensors using a low-power mode chemiresistive I-V measurement at zero gate voltage (V gate = 0 V). Additionally, the oxide layer provided available sites for facile functionalization with bioreceptors. As immunoreaction plays a key role in clinical diagnosis and environmental analysis, our work presented a promising application using such enhanced Al 2O 3-coated MoS 2 chemiresistive biosensors for detection of HIgG with high sensitivity and selectivity. The biosensor was successfully applied to detect HIgG in artificial urine, a complex matrix containing organics and salts.
关键词：MoS2; metal oxide; biosensor; chemiresistive; field-effect transistor; chemiresistor