A Printed Organic Amplification System for Wearable Potentiometric Electrochemical Sensors
Electrochemical sensor systems with integrated amplifier circuits play an important role in measuring physiological signals via in situ human perspiration analysis. Signal processing circuitry based on organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) have significant potential in realizing wearable sensor devi...
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Published in | Scientific reports Vol. 8; no. 1; pp. 3922 - 8 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
London
Nature Publishing Group UK
02.03.2018
Nature Publishing Group |
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Summary: | Electrochemical sensor systems with integrated amplifier circuits play an important role in measuring physiological signals via
in situ
human perspiration analysis. Signal processing circuitry based on organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) have significant potential in realizing wearable sensor devices due to their superior mechanical flexibility and biocompatibility. Here, we demonstrate a novel potentiometric electrochemical sensing system comprised of a potassium ion (K
+
) sensor and amplifier circuits employing OTFT-based pseudo-CMOS inverters, which have a highly controllable switching voltage and closed-loop gain. The ion concentration sensitivity of the fabricated K
+
sensor was 34 mV/dec, which was amplified to 160 mV/dec (by a factor of 4.6) with high linearity. The developed system is expected to help further the realization of ultra-thin and flexible wearable sensor devices for healthcare applications. |
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ISSN: | 2045-2322 2045-2322 |
DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-018-22265-1 |