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The EnFET sensor consists of a urease-immobilized tin-dioxide (SnO2) sensing membrane extended gate (EG) and an a-IGZO thin film transistor (TFT), which acts as the detector and transducer, respectively. To enhance the urea sensitivity, we designed a triple-gate a-IGZO TFT transducer with a top gate (TG) at the top of the channel, a bottom gate (BG) at the bottom of the channel, and a side gate (SG) on the side of the channel. By using capacitive coupling between these gates, an extremely high urea sensitivity of 3632.1 mV\/pUrea was accomplished in the range of pUrea 2 to 3.5; this is 50 times greater than the sensitivities observed in prior works. High urea sensitivity and reliability were even obtained in the low pUrea (0.5 to 2) and high pUrea (3.5 to 5) ranges. The proposed urea-EnFET sensor with a triple-gate a-IGZO TFT is therefore expected to be useful for POC diagnostic tests that require high sensitivity and high reliability.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s21144748","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,12]],"date-time":"2021-07-12T21:56:37Z","timestamp":1626126997000},"page":"4748","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["Highly Sensitive and Transparent Urea-EnFET Based Point-of-Care Diagnostic Test Sensor with a Triple-Gate a-IGZO TFT"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4248-558X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Seong-Kun","family":"Cho","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electronic Materials Engineering, Kwangwoon University, 20, Gwangun-ro, Nowon-gu, Seoul 01897, Korea"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3932-4892","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Won-Ju","family":"Cho","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electronic Materials Engineering, Kwangwoon University, 20, Gwangun-ro, Nowon-gu, Seoul 01897, Korea"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2797","DOI":"10.1021\/jf405400y","article-title":"Simultaneous determination of ethyl carbamate and urea in alcoholic beverages by high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with fluorescence detection","volume":"62","author":"Zhang","year":"2014","journal-title":"J. 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