Kinetics of nanopore fabrication during controlled breakdown of dielectric membranes in solution

Nanotechnology

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Briggs, Kyle ^a   Charron, Martin ^a   Kwok, Harold ^a   Le, Timothea ^a   Chahal, Sanmeet ^a   Bustamante, José ^a   Waugh, Matthew ^a   Tabard Cossa, Vincent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

bionanotechnology; dielectric breakdown; nanofabrication; next generation sequencing; solid state nanopore

Indexed keywords

DNA SEQUENCES; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; ELECTRIC FIELDS; GENE ENCODING; KINETICS; NANOFLUIDICS; NANOPORES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACIDS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

BIONANOTECHNOLOGY; DIELECTRIC MEMBRANES; HIGH ELECTRIC FIELDS; NANOFABRICATION TECHNIQUES; NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; SOLID-STATE NANOPORE; THIN DIELECTRIC MEMBRANE;

FABRICATION;

EID: 84922311581     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/26/8/084004     Document Type: Article

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