Debye screening in single-molecule carbon nanotube field-effect sensors

Nano Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3739-3743

  Sorgenfrei, Sebastian ^a   Chiu, Chien Yang ^b   Johnston, Matthew ^a   Nuckolls, Colin ^b   Shepard, Kenneth L ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon nanotube; Debye screening; DNA; field effect sensor; microfluidics; single molecule detection

Indexed keywords

BUFFER CONCENTRATIONS; CARBON NANOTUBE FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTORS; COVALENTLY BOUND; DEBYE LENGTH; DEBYE SCREENING; DEFECT SITES; ELECTROLYTE GATE; FIELD-EFFECT SENSOR; GATE POTENTIALS; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; PROBE MOLECULES; RANDOM TELEGRAPH NOISE; REFERENCE ELECTRODES; SINGLE-MOLECULE; SINGLE-MOLECULE DETECTION; SINGLE-MOLECULE ELECTRONICS;

BIOMOLECULES; CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; DEFECTS; DNA; MICROFLUIDICS; MOLECULES; SENSORS; TELEGRAPH;

FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS;

BAYSILON; BUFFER; CARBON NANOTUBE; DIMETICONE; DNA; ION; NANOTUBE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GENETIC PROCEDURES; METHODOLOGY; MICROFLUIDICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; STATIC ELECTRICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; BUFFERS; DIMETHYLPOLYSILOXANES; DNA; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; IONS; MICROFLUIDICS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; NANOTUBES, CARBON; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 80052786626     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl201781q     Document Type: Article

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