Deposition and characterisation of ultralow-stress ZnO thin films for application in FBAR-based gravimetric biosensors Online publication date: Sat, 07-Mar-2015
by L. García-Gancedo; G.M. Ashley; X.B. Zhao; J. Pedrós; A.J. Flewitt; W.I. Milne; J.K. Luo; J.R. Lu; C.J.B. Ford; D. Zhang
International Journal of Nanomanufacturing (IJNM), Vol. 7, No. 3/4, 2011
Abstract: Zinc oxide (ZnO) thin films were deposited at high rates (> 50 nm min?1) using a unique technique known as high target utilisation sputtering (HiTUS). The films obtained possess good crystallographic orientation, low surface roughness, very low stress and excellent piezoelectric properties. We have utilised the films to develop highly sensitive biosensors based on thickness longitudinal mode (TLM) thin film bulk acoustic resonators (FBARs). The FBARs have the fundamental TLM at a frequency near 1.5 GHz and quality factor Q higher than 1,000, which is one of the largest values ever reported for ZnO-based FBARs. Bovine Serum Albumin (BSA) solutions with different concentrations were placed on the top of different sets of identical FBARs and their responses to mass-loading from physically adsorbed protein coatings were investigated. These resonators demonstrated a high sensitivity and thus have a great potential as gravimetric sensors for biomedical applications.
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