Nanomechanical protein concentration detector using a nanogap squeezing actuator with compensated displacement monitoring electrodes

Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 802-808

  Lee, Won Chul ^a,b   Cho, Young Ho ^a   Pisano, Albert P ^b  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical measurements; Biomedical transducer; Mechanical engineering; Proteins

Indexed keywords

BIOSENSORS; MECHANICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; NANOMECHANICS; PROTEINS; STIFFNESS; TRANSDUCERS;

BIOMEDICAL MEASUREMENTS; BIOMEDICAL TRANSDUCER; MONITORING ELECTRODES; PROTEIN CONCENTRATION DETECTOR;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 34548013315     PISSN: 10577157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JMEMS.2007.896706     Document Type: Article

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