Intrinsic noise from neighboring bases in the DNA transverse tunneling current

Physical Review Applied

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Alvarez, Jose R ^a   Skachkov, Dmitry ^a   Massey, Steven E ^a   Lu, Junqiang ^b   Kalitsov, Alan ^a,c   Velev, Julian P ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; DNA; DNA SEQUENCES; ELECTRODES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTRON TUNNELING; NANOPORES;

CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE; MEASUREMENT PARAMETERS; MEASUREMENT SETUP; NONEQUILIBRIUM ELECTRON TRANSPORT; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; TIGHT BINDING MODEL; TRANSVERSE CURRENTS;

GENE ENCODING;

EID: 84902989120     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23317019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.1.034001     Document Type: Article

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