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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2008
Matthias Merz, Leuven, BE;
Youri V. Ponomarev, Leuven, BE;
Gilberto Curatola, Korbek-Lo, BE;
NXP, B.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A detector device comprises a substrate (), a source region (S) and a drain region (D), and a channel region () between the source and drain regions. A nanopore () passes through the channel region, and connects fluid chambers () on opposite sides of the substrate. A voltage bias is provided between the fluid chambers, the source and drain regions and a charge flow between the source and drain regions is sensed. The device uses a nanopore for the confinement of a sample under test (for example nucleotides) close to a sensor. The size of the sensor can be made similar to the spacing of adjacent nucleotides in a DNA strand. In this way, the disadvantages of PCR based techniques for DNA sequencing are avoided, and single nucleotide resolution can be attained.