Shot noise sets the limit of quantification in electrochemical measurements |
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Authors: | Rui Gao Martin A. Edwards Joel M. Harris Henry S. White |
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Affiliation: | Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA |
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Abstract: | Detection of single molecules, particles, and rapid redox events is a challenge of electrochemical investigations and requires either an amplification strategy or significant averaging for the electrochemical current to exceed the noise level. We consider the minimum number of electrons required to reach the limit of quantification in these electrochemical measurements. A survey of the literature indicates that the state-of-the-art limit in current detection for different types of measurements (e.g. voltammetry, single-molecule redox cycling, ion channel recordings of single molecules, metal nanoparticle collision, and phase nucleation) is independent of the nature of the measurement and increases linearly with reciprocal response time, Δt?1, over ~5 orders of magnitude (from ~10 to ~106 s?1). We demonstrate that the practical limit of quantification requires cumulative measurement of ~2100 electrons during Δt and is determined by statistics of counting electrons, that is, the shot noise in the current. |
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Keywords: | Electrochemistry Shot-noise limit Limit of quantification Signal-to-noise Electrochemical amplification Limit of quantification" },{" #name" :" keyword" ," $" :{" id" :" kwrd0040" }," $$" :[{" #name" :" text" ," _" :" LoQ scanning electrochemical cell microscopy" },{" #name" :" keyword" ," $" :{" id" :" kwrd0050" }," $$" :[{" #name" :" text" ," _" :" SECCM hydrogen evolution reaction" },{" #name" :" keyword" ," $" :{" id" :" kwrd0060" }," $$" :[{" #name" :" text" ," _" :" HER |
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