Cornell University

Paul McEuen

Alejandro Cortese

Arthur Barnard

Alyosha C Molnar

Jonathan S Alden

Sunwoo Lee

Sasikanth Manipatruni

Michal Lipson

Gustavo Wiederhecker

Mian Zhang

The technology disclosed in this patent document can be used to construct devices with opto-electronic circuitry for sensing and identification applications, to provide untethered devices for deployment in living objects and other applications, and to provide fabrication techniques for making such devices for commercial production. As illustrated by specific examples disclosed herein, the disclosed technology can be implemented to provide fabrication methods, substrates, and devices that enable wireless, inorganic cell-scaled sensor and identification systems that are optically-powered and optically-readout.

Wireless, optically-powered optoelectronic sensors

A nanopore-containing substrate includes a substrate, a membrane on the substrate, and at least one nanoscale electronic element disposed on or embedded in the membrane. The membrane defines at least one nanopore. The nanoscale electronic element is aligned with one of the nanopores such that a shortest distance between an edge of the nanoscale electronic element and the edge of the nanopore is less than 50 nm. The nanopores may be formed by etching through a dielectric layer using a solution while applying a voltage to the nanoscale electronic element relative to the solution. The nanopore-containing substrate can be used to detect or sequence a biopolymer, such as a nucleic acid. The nanopore-containing substrate may be used with a biopolymer detection and/or sequencing system.

Nanopore-containing substrates with aligned nanoscale electronic elements and methods of making and using same

A synchronizable optomechanical oscillator (OMO) network including at least two dissimilar silicon nitride (SiN) optomechanical resonators that can be excited to evolve into self-sustaining optomechanical oscillators (OMOs) coupled only through an optical radiation field. The tunability of the optical coupling between the oscillators enables one to externally control the dynamics and switch between coupled and individual oscillation states.

Optomechanical oscillator network, control and synchronization methods, and applications

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