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. 2023 Mar 2;11:1117871. doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2023.1117871

TABLE 7.

FET-based DNA detectors.

Type of affinity assay Determination method LOD DLR Ref
Silicon nitride on SiO2 Substrate Ion-Sensitive FET/CMOS chemical sensing array operating in current mode for real-time ion imaging and detection of DNA amplification by Isothermal Loop-Mediated 1.03 μA/pH Miscourides et al. (2018)
Graphene layer on SiO2/Si Substrate FET/based on two-dimensional channel of a single graphene layer that can discriminate a single nucleotide polymorphism 25 aM 1 Am–100 fM Campos et al. (2019)
ISFET chemical frame/Bio Chip Ion-Sensitive FET/DNA amplification generates protons H+ proportional to the number of DNA copies by isothermal amplification 16.7 mpH 1–12 pH Abdulwahab et al. (2018)
liquid exfoliated graphene FET/Immunorecognition based on the glutaraldehyde modified liquid exfoliated graphene FET measured by current between the electrodes of drain and source Sensitivity <3 1–106 pM Zhang et al. (2019b)
3D Graphene FET/by introducing target miRNA affects the electrical potential of 3D-G and detection of miRNA 100 pM 100 pM–100 nM Song et al. (2020b)
Graphene on SiO2/Si Substrate FET/Trend of Dirac point shift by adsorption of single-stranded DNA studied Dirac Voltage Shift 10 V Yi et al. (2019)
Graphene on SiO2 Substrate FET/Back-gated G-FET-based on engineered hairpin probe DNA with improved sensitivity up to fM level <10 fM 1,000 nM–10 fM Gao et al. (2018)
Graphene/Magnetic bead G-FET/that uses clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats technology to enable the digital detection of a target sequence 1.7 fM Hajian et al. (2019)
Metal/SiO2/Ion-sensitive layer MOSFET/detected DNA by changing dielectric constant and then obtaining its threshold voltage 0.65 V Goel et al. (2018)
AlGaN/GaN on Si Substrate Transistor/proposed an electrical double layer gated high electron mobility transistor as DNA sensor 1 fM 1 pM–10 fM Chen et al. (2018)
Graphene/DNA tweezers probe FET/Single nucleotide polymorphism sensitivity achieved by observing changes in Dirac point shift and resistance change 100 pM 10 uM to 100 nM Hwang et al. (2018)
Single-walled carbon nanotubes (CNT) on SiO2 FET/Developed floating electrode-based DNA sensor with controllable responses based on Langmuir theory 100 fM 1 nM–10 uM Kim et al. (2012)
MoS2/Go/FET on Cu Substrate FET/DNA detection by charge transfer through MoS2 between graphene and DNA 10 aM 10 aM–100 p.m Chen et al. (2020)
AuNPs/single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) on SiO2 FET/DNA detection depend on the percolation paths of SWNTs in conduction channels 100 fM 0–1 nM Dong et al. (2008)
CNT and graphene/PCB/PAN Probe FET/reported array of Ion-Sensitive Field-Effect Transistors for detection of nucleic acid molecules 1 nM 1 Nm–1 μM Ganguli et al. (2018)
Graphene layer with Pyrenebutanoic acid succinimidyl ester FET/The negatively charged effect of DNA molecule used for FET/graphene-based DNA sensor. Non-covalent bonded DNA caused a “left” shift of the Dirac point 3 nM 1–32 nM Guo et al. (2011)
Polycrystalline Si Nanowire FET/enhanced FET sensitivity through using chimeric DNAs with methylated neutral nucleotides as probes 0.1 fM 0.1–10 fM Hu et al. (2018)
Crumpled/flat graphene FET Computational simulations reveal that deformed graphene could exhibit a change in band-gap, allowing an exponential change in the source-drain current from small numbers of charges (600 zM) [crumpled 2 pM(flat)] 10−3 M–10−20 M Hwang et al. (2020)
CNT devices embedded in polymer substrates substrate FET/CNT based flexible circuits for DNA sensors using Raman spectroscopy 160 nM Kang et al. (2008)
Liquid coplaner Graphene FET FET/Designed Liquid coplanar-gate graphene FET to detect and distinguish between single-stranded and double-stranded DNA molecules 1 nM 0–10 nM Kim et al. (2018)
Graphene, PS Brush, SiO2, Si FET/Used interfacial polymer brush layer, which is inserted between graphene and SiO2 to enhance the electrical properties of the sensor 12-mer ssDNA10 pM/μL Ku et al. (2018)
Au electrodes/polymer substrate/PDMS/PMMA MOSFET/developed a miRNA sensor using an electrical double layer gated FET biosensor with enhanced sensitivity and stability 100 fM 100–1,000 fM Kuo et al. (2019)
CNT/aryldiazonium salts/Si Substrate Designed single-point-functionalized CNTFETs have been used to sense conformational changes and binding events in nucleic acid structures from intrinsic molecular charge (Sp3 defects) 20-mer target DNA 100 nM Lee et al. (2018)
Graphene/Au Gate/Glass substrate/Electrolyte FET/The mechanism of this novel DNA sensor is that the gate potential drop is induced by DNA immobilization and hybridization on the Au gate electrode 1 fM 1 fM–5 μM Li et al. (2019b)
Graphene/MoS2 heterostructures/on a sapphire substrate/Laser Photoluminescence PL/characteristics of the grown graphene/MoS2 film are used for label-free and selective detection of DNA hybridization 1 aM 0.1∼1 fM Loan et al. (2014)
MoS2/Si/SiO2 substrate/Ti and Au Electrode FET/Developed label-free and direct hybridization assay using MoS2-FET biosensor for ultrasensitive detection of miRNA 0.03 fM 0.1 fM–10 nM Majd et al. (2018)
MoS2/Phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligos (PMO) FET/Developed PMO-modified MoS2 FET biosensor for detecting DNA based on PMO-DNA hybridization with high sensitivity and specificity 6 fM 10 fM–1 nM Mei et al. (2018)
Graphene embedded nanochannel device/Theoretical DFT-NEGFT Developed Graphene embedded nanochannel device that effectively controls the motion of nucleobases via p–p interaction and deciphers the ultrasensitivity of individual bases, one by one, in real time Fano resonance-driven conductance of individual bases Min et al. (2011)
Si3N4/Al on Si/SiO2Ag/AgCl References electrode CMOS FET/based on ion-sensitive field-effect transistor array using in-pixel quantization and compensation of sensor non-idealities 3.2 μs/pH 12.8 ns–33.1 ns Moser et al. (2018)
Al2O3 film/aluminum Floating Gate electrodes/polyethylene terephthalate substrates FET/presented electronic transduction of DNA hybridization by coupling OCMFETs and hairpin shaped probes 100pM 10 nM–10 pM Napoli et al. (2018)
Si3N4/doped Si substrate/Si nanonets (SiNN)/nanowires Si nanonet FET/reported field-effect silicon nanonet transistors for DNA sensing 30/30 tested devices Nguyen et al. (2019)
Graphene/SiO2/Si substrate/Au/Cr electrode FET/developed a COVID-19 FET sensor in which the SARS-CoV-2 spike antibody is conjugated to a graphene sheet, which is used as the sensing area 2.42 × 102 copies/mL 50–100 copies Seo et al. (2020)
Fluorescence FET/presented DNA sensor based on graphene and magnetic nanoparticles 1 pM 1 pM–10 nM Sun et al. (2019a)
Carbon nanotube/Pd electrodes/SiO2 substrate FET/a suspended CNT based FET was fabricated by utilizing the surface tension of liquid silver to suspend a CNT between two Pd electrodes for the detection of DNA hybridization 10 aM 1 pM–10 aM Sun et al. (2019c)
Monolayer graphene/Ag/AgCl electrode/ITO glass substrate G-FET/Using the graphene as the electric channel, fabricated G-FET sensor that can be used for detection of RNA 0.1 fM 0.1 fM to 1 pM Tian, (2018)
Liquid exfoliated graphene/solution-gated FET/silver paste FET/fabricated bioLEG-SgFETs and demonstrate their bio-application in single-strand DNA detection 10 fM 10-3-105 pM Wang and Jia (2018)
Silicon wafer FET FET/fabricated side-gated silicon nanowire FET was using complementary metal oxide semiconductor technology 0.83 fM 10 fM–10 nM Wu et al. (2018)