K+-ISFETs are prepared by grafting, on the silica gate insulator surface, s
ilylated crown-ether molecules which were synthesized for the first time. T
hree grafting reactions were tested. The responses of the grafted ISFETs ar
e sub-nernstian. They are analyzed through the modified site-binding model
and the density of grafted sites was found to be equal to 6 X 10(12) cm(-2)
with the chloro-silylated molecule and 13 x 10(12) cm(-2) with the dimethy
lamino-silylated molecule, the complexation constant of K+ ions being found
to be equal to 10(2.1). (C) 1999 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved
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