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

纳米线器件作为超灵敏的化学和生物传感器正在兴起，在护理点市场具有巨大的潜力。制造硅纳米线（SiNWs）的技术有很多，但使用硅制造工艺供应小批量传感器的高成本已经成为创新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为纳米线的分布和高性能传感器阵列的制造提供了一种经济、可扩展的方法。在这个可行性项目中，我们建议研究使用喷墨印刷的硅纳米线制造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.