In this review, the emerging roles of group IV nanoparticles including silicon, diamond,
silicon carbide, and germanium are summarized and discussed from the perspective of …

Silicon carbide (SiC) has been around for more than 100 years as an industrial material and
has found wide and varied applications because of its unique electrical and thermal …

With the increasing requirements for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) regarding
stability, miniaturization and integration, novel materials such as wide band gap …

The search for materials and systems, capable of operating long term under physiological
conditions, has been a strategy for many research groups during the past years. Silicon …

Increasing interest has been paid to label-free biosensors in recent years. Among them,
refractive index (RI) optical biosensors enable high density and the chip-scale integration of …

In this study, we have successfully demonstrated that a GaN nanowire (GaNNW) based
extended-gate field-effect-transistor (EGFET) biosensor is capable of specific DNA …

Mesoporous silicon (PSi) is an attractive choice when considering the utilization of
mesoporous materials in biomedical applications. The size of the pores, morphology and the …

Rapid and accurate molecular blood analysis is essential for disease diagnosis and
management. Field‐effect transistor (FET) biosensors are a type of device that promise to …

This review is focused on the basic principles, the main applications, and the theoretical
models developed for various redox mechanisms in protein film voltammetry, with a special …

AC–Si bonded SiO 2/diamond interface is formed under a SiO 2 mask during the selective
diamond growth at a high temperature in a H 2 atmosphere including methane (5%). A few …