Assessment of 1/f noise associated with nanopores fabricated through chemically tuned controlled dielectric breakdown.
Electrophoresis
; 42(7-8): 899-909, 2021 04.
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Recently, we developed a fabrication method-chemically-tuned controlled dielectric breakdown (CT-CDB)-that produces nanopores (through thin silicon nitride membranes) surpassing legacy drawbacks associated with solid-state nanopores (SSNs). However, the noise characteristics of CT-CDB nanopores are largely unexplored. In this work, we investigated the 1/f noise of CT-CDB nanopores of varying solution pH, electrolyte type, electrolyte concentration, applied voltage, and pore diameter. Our findings indicate that the bulk Hooge parameter (αb ) is about an order of magnitude greater than SSNs fabricated by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) while the surface Hooge parameter (αs ) is â¼3 order magnitude greater. Theαs of CT-CDB nanopores was â¼5 orders of magnitude greater than theirαb , which suggests that the surface contribution plays a dominant role in 1/f noise. Experiments with DNA exhibited increasing capture rates with pH up to pH â¼8 followed by a drop at pH â¼9 perhaps due to the onset of electroosmotic force acting against the electrophoretic force. The1/f noise was also measured for several electrolytes and LiCl was found to outperform NaCl, KCl, RbCl, and CsCl. The 1/f noise was found to increase with the increasing electrolyte concentration and pore diameter. Taken together, the findings of this work suggest the pH approximate 7-8 range to be optimal for DNA sensing with CT-CDB nanopores.
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Nanoporos
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2021
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