
- •Outline
- •Recall: Salt screening for Planar Sensor
- •Screening different for 1D sensors?
- •Cylindrical NW sensor
- •Cylindrical NW sensor: at high salt density
- •NW sensor: at high salt density
- •NW sensor: same result, different constants
- •Screening limited response
- •Issue 1: Screening reduces the distance you can see
- •Issues 1: You cannot see the full DNA Screening in 2D (NW sensors)
- •Issue 2: Distributed vs. localized charge
- •Importance of fluidic environment
- •Issue 3: Doping is discrete
- •Issue 4: Faradic vs. non-Faradic electrodes
- •Conclusions
- •Review questions
- •References

Principles of Electronic Nanobiosensors
Unit 3: Sensitivity
Lecture 3.3: Potentiometric Sensors:
Charge Screening for Cylindrical Sensors
By Muhammad A. Alam
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Purdue University
alam@purdue.edu
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•Recall: Salt and screening
•Theory of screening for a Cylindrical NW sensor
•Comparison with experiments
•Special issues of small sensors
•Conclusions
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