MEMSbased Double-Stacked Tower Biosensor Array with Integrated Readout Circuitry for Detection of Salivary pH as a Diagnostic Biomarker Applied for Chronic Periodontal Disease
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Double Stacked Tower Biosensor Pixel Design and MEMS Fabrication Flow
2.1.1. Proposed Pixel Structure
2.1.2. The Operational Principle of Electrical Field Change for Ion Binding
2.1.3. Fabrication Flow of Stacked Tower Biosensor Array
2.1.4. Pixel Layout and Sensitivity Evaluation of Double Stacked Tower Biosensor
2.2. System Architecture
2.2.1. System Architecture of Frontend Circuits
2.2.2. Design of Dual Offset Cancellation Circuit
2.2.3. Design of Low-Jitter Dropout Regulator
3. Results
4. Conclusions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Analyte | Solution pH 7.2 | Solution pH 4.0 | |
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Parameters | |||
RP_target | 18.2 KΩ | 13.8 KΩ | |
R_target | 2.8 KΩ | 2.1 KΩ | |
C_target | F | F | |
α | 0.81 | 0.75 |
Functions | Principle | Linearity Range | Sensitivity | Response Time in Second | Repetition | Drift over Time | Analyte Target | Functional Type | |
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Prior Works | |||||||||
This work w/3D double stacked tower array + w/dual cancellation comparator | Electrical field | Wide pH 2.0–8.3 | 21 ADC count/pH (212 mV/pH) | 5 s | 98.9% | 0.5 mV | Chronic gingiva disease saliva | array pH Image (50-frame/s) | |
This work w/o 3D double stacked tower array+ w/o dual cancellation comparator | Narrow Range 1: pH: 2–3 Range 2: pH: 3–8.3 | 6 ADC count/pH | 7 s | 96% | 0.5 mV | Chronic gingiva disease saliva | |||
[20] Y-2017 | Electrical field | Narrow Range 1: pH: 4–6 Range 2: pH: 6–10 | 187 nA/pH | 6 s | 90% | 2nA([11] IDE NO:1–5) | Alkali and hydroxyl buffer | Analog current | |
[21] Y-2018 | Electrical field | Narrow pH: 5–8 | 0.64 μF/pH | 13 s | 92% | 7.1 mV | Glucose, Na+. K+ | Analog voltage | |
[10] Y-2020 | Transistor channel current | Narrow pH: 6–7.6 | 140 mV/pH | 20 s | 93% | 3.2 mV | Standard buffer | Analog voltage | |
[11] Y-2019 | Transistor channel current | Wide pH: 7–12 | 49 mV/pH | 24 s | 91% | 4.2 mV | Standard buffer | Analog voltage | |
[22] Y-2017 | Transistor channel current | Narrow Range 1: pH: 4–6 Range 2: pH: 6–10 | 130 mV/pH | 12 s | 92% | 6.2 mV | Standard buffer | Analog voltage |
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Lin, W.-C. MEMSbased Double-Stacked Tower Biosensor Array with Integrated Readout Circuitry for Detection of Salivary pH as a Diagnostic Biomarker Applied for Chronic Periodontal Disease. Sensors 2022, 22, 8652. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22228652
Lin W-C. MEMSbased Double-Stacked Tower Biosensor Array with Integrated Readout Circuitry for Detection of Salivary pH as a Diagnostic Biomarker Applied for Chronic Periodontal Disease. Sensors. 2022; 22(22):8652. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22228652
Chicago/Turabian StyleLin, Wei-Cheng. 2022. "MEMSbased Double-Stacked Tower Biosensor Array with Integrated Readout Circuitry for Detection of Salivary pH as a Diagnostic Biomarker Applied for Chronic Periodontal Disease" Sensors 22, no. 22: 8652. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22228652