Impedimetric Characterization of Interdigitated Electrode Arrays for Biosensor Applications

Abstract

We present recent results of the electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) measurements for interdigitated electrode arrays (IDAs) ranging from several micrometers down to hundreds of nanometers. Simulations have shown that the electric field strength between the electrodes scales with the gap size. Therefore, electrodes of varying gap sizes were fabricated and functionalized with ssDNA to empirically validate these findings. The results have shown that the impedimetric response strongly correlates with the width of the electrode fingers: the smaller the electrode gap, the larger the impedance increase.

Keywords

• impedance spectroscopy
• biosensors
• nanogaps
• interdigitated electrode arrays
• DNA