Differential conductance as a promising approach for rapid DNA sequencing with nanopore-embedded electrodes

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  He, Yuhui ^a   Shao, Lubing ^a   Scheicher, Ralph H ^b   Grigoriev, Anton ^b   Ahuja, Rajeev ^b,c   Long, Shibing ^a   Ji, Zhuoyu ^a   Yu, Zhaoan ^a   Liu, Ming ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (China)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASE SEQUENCES; DIFFERENTIAL CONDUCTANCES; DNA SEQUENCING; DNA STRUCTURE; ELECTRICAL NOISE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT SIMULATIONS; EMBEDDED ELECTRODES; GENOME SEQUENCING;

DNA; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOPORES;

GENE ENCODING;

EID: 77955742701     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3467194     Document Type: Article

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