Projektbeschreibung
Schneller und flexibler Fototransistor für bioelektronische Bauelemente
Organische Elektronik scheint die ideal geeignete Schnittstelle zur Biologie zu sein. Ihre weichen mechanischen Eigenschaften können biologische Strukturen simulieren, während die Fähigkeit, neben Elektronen und Löchern auch Ionen leiten zu können, einen neuen Kommunikationskanal zur Biologie eröffnet. Transistoren, jene Bauelemente, die elektronische Signale in Schaltkreisen verstärken oder schalten, sind die wichtigsten Komponenten dieser Systeme. Bisher konnte die Wissenschaft jedoch keine Transistoren bauen, die ausreichend schnell für die Datenverarbeitung sind. Das im Rahmen der Marie-Skłodowska-Curie-Maßnahmen finanzierte Projekt LEAPh wird einen neuartigen Fototransistor für Hochgeschwindigkeits-Schaltanwendungen entwickeln. Die Fortschritte im Rahmen des Projekts werden die Entwicklung und Implementierung von äußerst zuverlässigen, rauschfreien, organischen Bioelektronik-Bauelementen fördern.
Ziel
Organic bioelectronics has emerged as a disruptive technology, introducing devices with unprecedented features of biocompatibility and functionality. The potential of organic materials resides not only in their favorable mechanical properties, which comply to those of biological tissues, but also on their ability to enable mixed electronic and ionic transport and on the possibility to finely tune their optoelectronic properties, such as optical absorption, charge photogeneration and transport. In addition, the synthesis of organic compounds can be tuned to further improve biocompatibility and to allow for chemical or biochemical functionalization, as well as to enable cost-effective and scalable processability of materials. For these reasons, a plethora of biocompatible, mechanically compliant, large area, multipoint biosensing and stimulating devices are now available, generating novel interaction routes between biological systems, bioelectronics devices, and consumer electronics, such as smartphones and portable devices.
Because of the general involvement of ionic transport in biological environments, organic bioelectronic devices are inherently slow, i.e. characterized by slow switching capabilities, limited to few kHz. This fundamental aspect brings along some limitations, such as low-frequency operation and fluctuations of the operating parameters. The goal of the LEAPh project is to develop a novel bioelectronic device specifically devised to address in an unprecedented way the low-operating frequency of current bioelectronics, as well as providing a noise-free measurement of biochemical and biological interactions. Moreover, the same technology could pave the way towards a new class of low-voltage organic electro-optical systems.
Wissenschaftliches Gebiet
- engineering and technologyenvironmental biotechnologybiosensing
- natural scienceschemical sciencesorganic chemistry
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesbiological behavioural sciencesethologybiological interactions
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsmobile phones
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