ENBIOS-2D Lab

By Aldi Hoxha1; Paolo Scarbolo1; Andrea Cossettini2; Federico Pittino3; Luca Selmi4

1. DPIA, Università degli Studi di Udine 2. University of Udine 3. Università di Udine 4. DPIA, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy

A tool to simulate Ion Sensitive Field Effect Transistors in two dimensions

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Version 1.0.0b - published on 10 Oct 2016

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    Geometry Menu showing with sketch of the ISFET structure Environment Menu with definition of bias sweeps, DC bias for AC analysis and frequency sweep paarameters Plot menu with definition of 1D cuts to plot internal variables (potential, ion and carrier concentrations) Material --> Electrolyte Menu with definition of Electrolyte salts and pH IDS-VFG characteristic with bias points for AC analysis marked by dashed lines DC potential along the vertical direction in the middle of the channel. The negative peak is due to the site-binding charge IDS-VFG characteristics at a few pH values (HfO2 gate oxide) Magnitude and Phase of all charged particles' concentrations along vertical direction Real and Imaginary part of AC potential along x direction at all bias points defined for AC analysis Magnitude and Phase of the Gate Impedance versus frequency

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Abstract

ENBIOS-2D Lab is a tool to illustrate and to study simple Ion Sensitive Field Effect Transistor structures in two dimensions. Together with its companion tool ENBIOS-1D Lab, it is meant for use as a teaching tool in support of undergraduate or graduate courses on the basic physics of transduction in ion and particle sensors, and to assist early stage researchers getting familiar with some basic concepts in the field.

At the present stage, ENBIOS-2D Lab supports simulation and visualization of DC I-V characteristics, impedance/admittance spectra as well as DC and AC potential/carrier/ion distributions in simple two-dimensional ISFET structures. A broader set of case studies will become available with future releases of the tool.

The companion ENBIOS-1D Lab tool offers the possibility to simulate simple Electrolyte/Insulator/Semiconductor systems in one-dimension.

The physical system is modelled with the Poisson/Boltzmann (DC) and Poisson/Nernst/Planck - Poisson/Drift/Diffusion (AC small signal) equations coupled to the site-binding charge model equations at the Electrolyte/Insulator interfaces. Dedicated models are implemented for the frequency and salinity dependence of the electrolyte electrical permittivity and the temperature dependence of the ions' mobility (in water solvent).

ENBIOS-2D Lab is powered by ENBIOS, (Electronic Nano-BIOsensor Simulator), a general purpose three-dimensional Control Volume Finite Element Method (CVFEM) simulator developed in-house at the University of Udine - Italy. ENBIOS simulates in three dimensions (3D) the DC and AC small signal impedance response to ions and micro/nanoparticles of three-dimensional devices made of semiconductor, insulator and electrolyte materials.

More details on ENBIOS can be found in the references below.

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ENBIOS-2D Lab is powered by ENBIOS, a general purpose full three-dimensional CVFEM simulator.

Credits

Development team: Paolo Scarbolo, Aldi Hoxha, Andrea Cossettini, Federico Pittino and Luca Selmi.

Sponsored by

European Commission FP7 NANOFUNCTION NoE, grant no. 257375

References

P. Scarbolo, E. Accastelli, F. Pittino, T. Ernst, C. Guiducci, L. Selmi,  “Characterization and modelling of differential sensitivity of nanoribbon-based pH-sensors”, Proceedings of  the 2015 Transducers - 18th International Conference on  Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (TRANSDUCERS), 21-25 June 2015, pp. 2188-2191

Paolo Scarbolo, Enrico Accastelli, Thomas Ernst, Carlotta Guiducci and Luca Selmi, "Analysis of Dielectric Microbead Detection by Impedance Spectroscopy with Nanoribbons", IEEE Nano Conference, August 2016.

Federico Pittino and Luca Selmi, "Use and comparative assessment of the CVFEM method for Poisson–Boltzmann and Poisson–Nernst–Planck three dimensional simulations of impedimetric nano-biosensors operated in the DC and AC small signal regimes", Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg., v.278, (2014), pp.902–923.

 

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Researchers should cite this work as follows:

  • Federico Pittino and Luca Selmi, "Use and comparative assessment of the CVFEM method for Poisson–Boltzmann and Poisson–Nernst–Planck three dimensional simulations of impedimetric nano-biosensors operated in the DC and AC small signal regimes", Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg., v.278, (2014), pp.902–923

  • Aldi Hoxha, Paolo Scarbolo, Andrea Cossettini, Federico Pittino, Luca Selmi (2016), "ENBIOS-2D Lab," https://nanohub.org/resources/biolabisfet. (DOI: 10.4231/D3V11VM7D).

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