Fabrication and interfacing of nanochannel devices for single-molecule studies

Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Hoang, H T ^a   Segers Nolten, I M ^a   Berenschot, J W ^a   De Boer, M J ^a   Tas, N R ^a   Haneveld, J ^a   Elwenspoek, M C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL WALL; FILLING EXPERIMENTS; FLUORESCENT DYES; INLET PORTS; MICROMACHINING TECHNIQUES; NANO CHANNELS; NANOCHANNEL DEVICES; OPTICAL DETECTION; OPTICAL LITHOGRAPHY; OPTICAL OBSERVATIONS; QUANTUM DOT; SINGLE-MOLECULE STUDIES; THIN GLASS;

MOLECULES; NANOFLUIDICS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; POLYSILICON; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 68249144833     PISSN: 09601317     EISSN: 13616439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0960-1317/19/6/065017     Document Type: Article

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