An investigation into the fabrication of nanosensor arrays on plastic substrates using inkjet printed nanowires: a low cost sensor platform

纳米线器件正在作为超灵敏的化学和生物传感器出现，并在护理点市场具有巨大的潜力。制造硅纳米线的技术有很多，但是使用硅制造工艺提供少量传感器的高成本已经成为创新的硅纳米线传感器商业化的主要障碍。硅纳米线的喷墨打印解决方案可以提供一种经济、可扩展的方法来分布纳米线和制造高性能传感器阵列。在这个可行性项目中，我们计划研究利用喷墨打印硅纳米线制作纳米传感器阵列，并测量其性能。

Nanowires devices are emerging as ultrasensitive chemical and biosensors and have great potential for the point of care market. There are many techniques to fabricate silicon nanowires (SiNWs) but the high cost of supplying low volumes of sensors using Si manufacturing processes has become a major barrier for commercialization of innovative Si-Nanowire sensors. Inkjet printing solutions of Si-nanowires could provide an economic scalable method to distribute nanowires and fabricate high performance sensor arrays. In this feasibility project we propose to investigate the fabrication of nanosensor arrays using inkjet printed Si-nanowires and measure their performance.