Capacitive DNA Detection Driven by Electronic Charge Fluctuations in a Graphene Nanopore

Physical Review Applied

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Feliciano, Gustavo T ^a,b   Sanz Navarro, Carlos ^c   Coutinho Neto, Mauricio Domingues ^b   Ordejón, Pablo ^c,d   Scheicher, Ralph H ^e   Rocha, Alexandre Reily ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO ABC   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d CSIC   (Spain)

^e UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; GENE ENCODING; NANOPORES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; NUCLEOTIDES; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

AQUEOUS ENVIRONMENT; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CHARGE FLUCTUATIONS; CONDUCTANCE MODULATIONS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRONIC CHARGES; HYBRID METHODOLOGIES; WHOLE GENOME ANALYSIS;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84942354270     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23317019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.3.034003     Document Type: Article

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