Flexure-FET biosensor to break the fundamental sensitivity limits of nanobiosensors using nonlinear electromechanical coupling

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 9304-9308

  Jain, Ankit ^a   Nair, Pradeep R ^a   Alam, Muhammad A ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cantilever; Critical point sensors; Genome sequencing; Label free detection; Spring softening

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOSENSOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; FLEXURE SENSITIVE FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; NANOELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; STEADY STATE;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; ELECTRONICS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; LIMIT OF DETECTION;

EID: 84862174766     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1203749109     Document Type: Article

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