Table 1. Current FET Sensor Technologies for Physiological Parameter Measurements at Single Cells.
FET design | measured quantities | nanometric FET | used for intracellular measurements | used for extracellular analyte mapping | ref |
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flat Si channel | electric potential | no | no | no | 39 |
free-standing kinked Si nanowire | electric potential | yes | yes | no | 1 |
upright SiO2 nanotube branch on top of a nanoscale FET | electric potential | yes | yes | no | 40 |
gold-coated pipet with carbon nanotube network as channel | Ca2+ concentration (range 100 pM–1 mM) | yes | yes | no | 41 |
PPy on dual carbon nanoelectrode | pH (range 1–7.5) ATP concentration (range 10 nM–1 mM) | yes | yes | yes | this work |