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Characterization of Nanopores on Micropillars Pt Electrodes for Non-Enzymatic Electrochemical Sensor Applications

Characterization of Nanopores on Micropillars Pt Electrodes for Non-Enzymatic Electrochemical Sensor Applications

In this paper, mesoporous Pt on micro pillars Pt electrode is newly designed, fabricated, and characterized on silicon substrate for non-enzymatic
electrochemical sensor micro-chip integrated with CMOS readout circuitry. The fabricated micro/nano Pt electrode has cylindrical hexangular arrayed nano Pt pores with a diameter of 3.2 nm which is formed on top of the micro pillars Pt electrode with approximately 6µm in diameter, 6µm in space, and 50 µm in height. The measured current responses of the fabricated plane Pt, mesoporous Pt, and mesoporous Pt on the micro pillar Pt electrodes are approximately 9.9 nA/mm2, 6.72 µA/mm2, and 7.67 µA/mm2 in 10mM glucose solution with 0.1M phosphate buffered saline (PBS) solution, respectively. In addition, the measured current responses of the fabricated plane Pt, mesoporous Pt, and mesoporous Pt on the micro pillar Pt electrodes are approximately 0.15 µA/mm2, 0.56 µA/mm2, and 0.74 µA/mm2 in 0.1mM ascorbic acid (AA) solution with 0.1M
phosphate buffered saline (PBS) solution, respectively. This experimental results show that the proposed micro/nano Pt electrode is highly sensitive and promising for CMOS integrated non-enzymatic electrochemical sensor applications. Since the micro-pillar Pt electrode can also be utilized with a micro-fluidic mixer in the sensor chip, the sensor chip can be much smaller, cheaper, and easier to be fabricated.

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