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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Luo, Linbao
• Jie, Jiansheng
• Zhang, Wenfeng
• He, Zhubing
• Wang, Jianxiong
• Yuan, Guodong
• Zhang, Wenjun
• Wu, Lawrence Chi Man
• Lee, Shuit-Tong

Titel

Silicon nanowire sensors for Hg2+ and Cd2+ ions

Ist Teil von

• Applied physics letters, 2009-05, Vol.94 (19)

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• High-sensitivity detection of toxic heavy metal cations such as Hg2+ and Cd2+ ions was demonstrated using single silicon nanowire field-effect transistors (SiNW-FETs). The conduct-ance of FET fabricated from thermally oxidized SiNWs functionalized with 3-mercaptopropyltriethoxysilane showed high sensitivity to Hg2+ and Cd2+ ions at a concentration down to 10−7 and 10−4M, respectively. Linear relationship between the logarithmic concentration of metal ions and the current change was observed. The SiNW sensor could be recycled to regain nearly the same sensitivity. Comparative experiments showed that SiNW-FET sensors have great selectivity for detecting Hg2+ and Cd2+ over other metal cations.