Nanoparticle-functionalized TFTs for biosensing in disease monitoring applications

这项研究将使新兴的传感器技术与加拿大现有的制造能力相结合，通过开发新的薄膜传感器技术，这将具有经济和社会效益。该项目将联合收割机的纳米颗粒材料的开发MedellaHealth的过程中，开发专业知识的教授威廉黄的小组在滑铁卢大学。Medella Health发明的材料与滑铁卢大学千兆到纳米电子中心开发的薄膜晶体管（TFT）微制造技术的集成。具体而言，该项目将允许非晶硅TFT和纳米颗粒解决方案的集成。集成传感器将通过检测与TFT上的纳米颗粒反应的分析物来操作，这将通过TFT的操作参数的变化来检测。该项目的成功成果将创造新的传感器技术产品，使加拿大电子设备制造商能够打开数十亿美元的医疗保健市场。

The study proposed will enable emerging sensor technologies to be combined with established manufacturingcapabilities within Canada that will have both economic and societal through the development of novelthin-film sensor technology. The project will combine the nanoparticle materials development of MedellaHealth with the process development expertise of Professor William Wong's group at the University ofWaterloo. The integration of the materials invented by Medella Health and thin-film transistor (TFT)micro-fabrication technology developed at the Giga-to-Nanoelectronics Center at the University of Waterloo.Specifically, the project will allow the integration of amorphous silicon TFTs and nanoparticle solutions. Theintegrated sensors will operate by detecting analytes that react with the nanoparticles on the TFTs, which willbe detected through changes in the operational parameters of the TFTs. The successful outcome of the projectwill create novel sensor technology products that will enable Canadian electronic device manufacturers topenetrate the multi-billion dollar health-care market.