Specific and label-free femtomolar biomarker detection with an electrostatically formed nanowire biosensor

NPG Asia Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Shalev, Gil ^a   Landman, Guy ^a   Amit, Iddo ^a   Rosenwaks, Yossi ^a   Levy, Ilan ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Biosensors; Label free; Nanowire

Indexed keywords

CHARGE-CARRIER DISTRIBUTION; CONFINEMENT POTENTIAL; ELECTROSTATIC SIMULATIONS; GEOMETRICAL STRUCTURE; INTEGRATED-CIRCUIT PROCESSING; LABEL FREE; LABEL-FREE AND REAL-TIME DETECTIONS; PROTEIN CONCENTRATIONS;

FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; NANOWIRES; PROTEINS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

BIOSENSORS;

EID: 84879015891     PISSN: 18844049     EISSN: 18844057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/am.2012.75     Document Type: Article

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