Advanced Field-Effect Transistor (FET) Sensors for Chemical and Biological Detection
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 August 2026 | Viewed by 40
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue focuses on circuit and device topologies required for the real-time detection of chemical and biological species using functionalized films. We invite original research and results in the use of functionalized films as FET gates, FET-based circuits with functionalized 2D materials acting as control elements, and integrated photonic concepts that combine waveguides and functionalized films for spectroscopic detection of targeted chemical or biological species. Other topologies for the interrogation of functionalized films not mentioned here are also invited. Of particular interest are sensor-circuit topologies envisioned for use as stand-alone packageable devices or as on-chip elements or arrays of on-chip elements packaged in a chip-let format for the realization of more advanced system-on-a-chip detection strategies. We welcome submissions focused on circuit designs, operating characteristics, and sensor responses based on the use of functionalized films for detecting targeted chemical or biological species. Such studies will foster strategies for improvements in response time, chemical or biological detection specificity, and lower detectable concentration levels. Reports on low-cost, wearable, submersible, microfluidic, and disposable sensors as well as novel detection architectures using functionalized films are also encouraged and invited.
Dr. Walter Buchwald
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- field-effect transistor (FET)
- functionalized films
- spectroscopic detection
- on-chip sensor arrays
- real-time detection
- low-cost sensors
- chemical sensing
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