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Plasmonic organic electrochemical transistors for enhanced sensing

Jinxin Li1,2, Foram Madiyar2,3, Sahil Ghate3, Kowsik Sambath Kumar2,4, Jayan Thomas1,2,4()
CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA
NanoScience Technology Center, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA
Aerospace Boulevard, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL 32114, USA
Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA
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This paper proposed a new method which incorporates plasmonics into organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs), to increase the sensitivity of OECTs for biosensing applications.

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Organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) have been hailed as highly sensitive biomolecular sensors among organic electronic devices due to their superior stability in an aqueous environment and high transconductance. At the same time, plasmon based sensors are known to provide high sensitivity for biosensing due to the highly localized plasmonic field. Here we report a plasmonic OECT (POET) device that synchronizes the advantages of OECTs and plasmonic sensors on a single platform. The platform is fabricated by a simple, cost-effective, and high-throughput nanoimprinting process, which allows plasmonic resonance peak tuning to a given visible wavelength of interest for versatile biosensing. With glucose sensing as proof, a five-times sensitivity enhancement is obtained for POET compared to a regular (non-plasmonic) OECT. Thus, the POET paves the way to a new paradigm of optoelectronic sensors that combines the inherent high sensitivity of OECTs and localized plasmonic field to sense a vast realm of biomolecules.

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organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs)plasmonicsnanoimprint fabricationglucose sensingplasmonic biosensing

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Nano Research
Volume 16 Issue 2,
February 2023
Pages 3201-3206
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-022-4989-8
Cite this article:
Li J, Madiyar F, Ghate S, et al. Plasmonic organic electrochemical transistors for enhanced sensing. Nano Research, 2023, 16(2): 3201-3206. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-022-4989-8
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