Publications by authors named "Gilberto A Umana-Membreno"

We fabricated nanodevices from MoWTe (x = 0, 0.07, 0.35), and conducted a systematic comparative study of their electrical transport.

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We demonstrate highly selective and sensitive potentiometric ion sensors for calcium ion detection, operated without the use of a reference electrode. The sensors consist of AlGaN/GaN heterostructure-based transistor devices with chemical functionalisation of the gate area using poly (vinylchloride)-based (PVC) membranes having high selectivity towards calcium ions, Ca. The sensors exhibited stable and rapid responses when introduced to various concentrations of Ca.

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This work presents the first polymer approach to detect metal ions using AlGaN/GaN transistor-based sensor. The sensor utilised an AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistor-type structure by functionalising the gate area with a polyvinyl chloride (PVC) based ion selective membrane. Sensors based on this technology are portable, robust and typically highly sensitive to the target analyte; in this case Hg.

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