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Tech Project Title: - “OFET based sensor and Biosensor: Fabrication and
Characterization in Advanced Applications”.
Supervisor: Prof. Subir Kumar Sarkar, Professor, ETCE Dept., Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
Description: We have explored devices like OFET (Organic Field Effect Transistors) and Biosensor for
advanced applications and determined their credibility for future low power nanoscale devices.
The First device explored is an OFET device: PPV based OFET and PANI based OFET for Humidity sensor. In
second work, a Biosensor device is explored and used as fruit freshness detection. The fabricated TiO2-based
thin film sensors are incorporated with microgap cavities. FESEM has been performed on the samples in order
to visualize the surface changes in the microgap cavity.
Publication:-
1. Mandira Biswas, Anup Dey, Sutanni Bhowmick, Bikram Biswas, Subhashis Roy and Subir Kumar
Sarkar, “Smart Ambient Weather Monitoring System for Hikers”, ICCDN 2018.
2. Sutanni Bhowmick, Bikram Biswas, Mandira Biswas, Anup Dey, Subhashis Roy and Subir Kumar
Sarkar, “Application of IoT Enabled Smart Agriculture in Vertical Farming”, ICCDN 2018.
3. Mandira Biswas,Goutika Paul,Bijoy Goswami,Subir kumar Sarkar, "PPV based Bottom Gate
Organic field effect transistor" Microsystem Technology, Springer,2019 (Accecpted & Presented).
4. Mandira Biswas, Anup Dey and Subir kumar Sarkar, “Fabrication of Pentacene based Organic
Field-Effect Transistors and their device characterization”, MSSND-IEE EDS 2019.
Research Proposal:-
1.Fabrication of Conducting polymer- TiO2 Nanowires Gas Sensor:-
 The sensors made of conducting polymers have many improved characteristics. Conducting polymers, such
as polypyrrole (PPy), polyaniline (Pani), Polythiophene (PTh) and their derivatives, it can be used as the active
layers of gas sensors. The gas sensors composed of nanostructured semiconductors, such as nanowires,
nanoparticles, nanorods, and nanobelts, show better sensitivities to different gases.
 A titanum dioxide (TiO2) nanowire array produced by Sol-gel method.
 The sensors with nanostructures have been demonstrated to be excellent candidates for high sensitivity due
to their high surface to volume ratio. Organic semiconductors have potential to be used as the sensing layer
of the gas sensor because they have good gas sensing performance and can be used to fabricate the low cost
gas sensors.
 In the present study, a gas sensor consisting of the conducting polymers(P3HT/PANI/ Pentacene
polypyrrole) film and the TiO2 nanowires was fabricated and which can detect ammonia and nitrogen gas.
With the advantage of combining two different materials, it is believed that this structure would exhibit
higher electrical properties and more sensitive performance for gas sensing.
2. Design Fabrication and Characterization of Novel MEMS based Sensors suitable

for health care applications:-
 The motivation for the use of MEMS and micro sensor continues to increase in everyday life, from
automotive manifolds, bio-medical analysis and aerospace structures. MEMS based sensors have
demonstrated performances exceeding those of their macroscale counterparts, on top of that gross
reduction of cost due to batch processing.
 Current time need and future prospective advance the idea of integration of MEMS and other domain
including photonics, nanotechnology, heterostructure material like MoS2, and Carbon composite
nanomaterials like 1D CNT, 2D Graphene, reduced Graphene oxide.
 State-of-art synthesis processes for graphene and CNTs are vital for the commercialization of
graphene- or CNT-based products. Examples of graphene and CNT in MEMS applications such as
electronic components, mass/gas sensors, supercapacitors, and others. We can used reduced
graphene oxide also.
My previous experience in this field-
1. PPV Based Bottom Gate Organic Field Effect Transistor
First device a PPV Based Bottom Gate Organic Field Effect Transistor (BGOFET) is explored which has been a
hiked in recent times. We used an organic semiconductor in its channel. One of the most widely studied organic
semiconductor materials used for OFETs is PPV with 0.00001-0.0001cm2/Vs carrier mobility. The proposed
device also exhibits an excellent sub threshold swing (SS) 41mV/decade along with high ON current. in this
paper better ON/OFF current ratio (1018) and low ON voltage have been determined for this bottom gate OFET,
which is based on poly (p-phenylenevinylene) (PPV or polyphenylene vinylene) (C8H6)n, and it is used here as
p-type conducting polymer for the very first time.
2. Fabrication of PANI Based OFET and their device characterization for Humidity Sensor
In the second work, fabrication of PANI based Organic Field-Effect for humidity sensor. Polyaniline (PANI) is
a p-type organic semiconductor material and it has been studied for many applications including logic circuit
components, electromagnetic shielding, chemical sensing and anticorrosion due to its easy synthesis, room
temperature operation, and relative environment stability. Humidity sensors are useful for the detection of the
relative humidity (RH) in various environments. PANI has been used in humidity sensor devices based on the
electrical conductivity with water vapor. Polymers are the major class of materials for fabrication of humidity
sensor. Using P-channel organic semiconductor i.e. polyaniline as an active layer and gate insulator Silicon
dioxide (SiO2) layer on n-type silicon substrate, humidity sensor based on organic field-effect transistor (OFET)
was created. This device is compatible with low power applications. In this work, we only concentrate on
fabrication of conducting polymer OFET with top contact to evaluate the humidity and verify I-V
characteristics. The p-type OFETs operating in an enhancement mode with the current saturation (I Sat) was
0.8μA and the threshold voltage VT was found to be 2.2V.The FESEM have been presented. The results show
that organic gate dielectrics possess potentially inexpensive alternative to inorganic counterparts and good
electrical performance.
3. Application of TiO2-based thin film Capacitive Biosensor towards Fruit Freshness detection.
Biosensor device is explored and used as fruit freshness detection. In this work, a highly sensitive, robust and
cost-effective capacitive biosensor has been proposed and its applicability towards testing fruit freshness has
been experimentally demonstrated. The fabricated TiO2-based thin film sensors are incorporated with microgap
cavities which when embedded into the fruit surface becomes sensitive to any dielectric (Єk) changes that occur
in the fruit during the phase of rotting. The sensors are hence based on the principle of dielectric modulation
(DM). FESEM has been performed on the samples in order to visualize the surface changes in the microgap
cavity. The proposed biosensor can be used as a low cost, portable sensing system as opposed to the existing
bulky and expensive equipment that are presently used in determination of fruit freshness.
Regarding the lithography process, i have experienced the lithography process during my course work
(term project) at IC centre Jadavpur University.
Regarding the mentioned simulation software, i used COMSOL Multiphysics and ATLAS SILVACO.

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2. Design Fabrication and Characterization of Novel MEMS based Sensors suitable

My previous experience in this field-

1. PPV Based Bottom Gate Organic Field Effect Transistor

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