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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2016
University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD (US);
The United States of America, As Represented BY the Secretary of Commerce, Washington, DC (US);
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (US);
The George Washington University, Washington, DC (US);
Abhishek Motayed, Rockville, MD (US);
Geetha Aluri, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Albert V. Davydov, North Potomac, MD (US);
Mulpuri V. Rao, Fairfax Station, VA (US);
Vladimir P. Oleshko, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Ritu Bajpai, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Mona E. Zaghloul, Bethesda, MD (US);
Brian Thomson, Washington, DC (US);
Baomei Wen, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Ting Xie, Burtonsville, MD (US);
Guannan Liu, Portland, OR (US);
Ratan Debnath, Damascus, MD (US);
University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD (US);
The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Commerce, Washington, DC (US);
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (US);
The George Washington University, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A nanostructure sensing device comprises a semiconductor nanostructure having an outer surface, and at least one of metal or metal-oxide nanoparticle clusters functionalizing the outer surface of the nanostructure and forming a photoconductive nanostructure/nanocluster hybrid sensor enabling light-assisted sensing of a target analyte.