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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance a photon discharge responding to a signal, and to enhance signal observability for circuit analysis. SOLUTION: A method and a device which enhance photon emission, responding to the signal in an integrated circuit 110, are indicated for the observability of a signal state using PICA. In an embodiment, photon emission is enhanced by adding a beacon 112 to an object signal, and a voltage is applied on the beacon 112. The photon emission can be discriminated for increasingly from noise, because the voltage is made higher than an operating circuit voltage Vdd so as to enhance the photon discharge, with respect to intensity and a energy. In many of the embodiments, the beacon 112 contains a transistor, and in several embodiments, the beacon 112 enables photon emission, from the beacon 112 and contains an enabling device for disabling this. PICA detector 130 captures photons and generates a time trace, after processing. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus, a system and a method for controlling a polymer through a nanopore using a piezoelectric material. SOLUTION: There are provided an apparatus, a system, and a method for using a piezoelectric material for controlling a polymer through a nanopore. A reservoir is formed filled with a conductive fluid. A nanopore is formed through a membrane. The membrane comprises an electroconductive layer, a piezoelectric layer, and an insulating layer. The piezoelectric layer is operative to control a size of the nanopore for clamping/releasing a polymer as well as to control the thickness of part of the membrane when a voltage is applied to the piezoelectric layer. Combinations of clamping/releasing the polymer and changing the thickness of part of the membrane can move a polymer through the nanopore at any electrically controlled speed and also stretch or break a polymer in the nanopore. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a nanofluidic field effect transistor device.SOLUTION: The field effect transistor device includes a reservoir classified by a membrane of three layers, namely, two electrically insulating layers and an electrically conductive gate arranged therebetween. The gate has a polarity different from a surface charge polarity of at least one of the insulating layers. A nanochannel runs through the membrane, connecting both parts of the reservoir. The device further includes an ionic solution filling the reservoir and the nanochannel, a drain electrode and a source electrode, and a voltage applied between the source electrode and the drain electrode and a voltage applied onto the gate turn on an ionic current through the ionic channel, and the voltage on the gate gates the transportation of ions through the ionic channel.
Abstract:
A technique for controlling the motion of one or more charged entities linked to a polymer through a nanochannel is provided. A first reservoir and a second reservoir are connected by the nanochannel. An array of electrodes is positioned along the nanochannel, where fluid fills the first reservoir, the second reservoir, and the nanochannel. A first electrode is in the first reservoir and a second electrode is in the second reservoir. The first and second electrodes are configured to direct the one or more charged entities linked to the polymer into the nanochannel. An array of electrodes is configured to trap the one or more charged entities in the nanochannel responsive to being controlled for trapping. The array of electrodes is configured to move the one or more charged entities along the nanochannel responsive to being controlled for moving.
Abstract:
Semiconductor devices, chromatography devices and integrated circuits for detecting one or more molecules and methods for forming a semiconductor device for detecting one or more molecules are presented. For example, a semiconductor device for detecting one or more molecules includes a channel formed within a semiconductor structure, and at least one detector formed within the semiconductor structure. The at least one detector detects the one or more molecules in the channel. The semiconductor device may optionally comprise one or more additional channels formed within the semiconductor structure. The semiconductor device may, for example, be operative to detect a single molecule.
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Ein probabilistischer Digitalumsetzer zum Extrahieren von Informationen aus einem Josephson-Komparator wird offenbart. Der Digitalumsetzer verwendet statistische Verfahren zum Zusammenfassen eines Satzes von Auslesesignalen eines Komparators, um dadurch die Empfindlichkeit des Komparators wirksam zu erhöhen, selbst wenn ein Eingangssignal in die Grauzone des Komparators fällt. Neben weiteren Verwendungsarten kann ein derartiger Digitalumsetzer zum Unterscheiden zwischen Zuständen eines Qubits verwendet werden.
Abstract:
A technique for controlling the motion of one or more charged entities linked to a polymer through a nanochannel is provided. A first reservoir and a second reservoir are connected by the nanochannel. An array of electrodes is positioned along the nanochannel, where fluid fills the first reservoir, the second reservoir, and the nanochannel. A first electrode is in the first reservoir and a second electrode is in the second reservoir. The first and second electrodes are configured to direct the one or more charged entities linked to the polymer into the nanochannel. An array of electrodes is configured to trap the one or more charged entities in the nanochannel responsive to being controlled for trapping. The array of electrodes is configured to move the one or more charged entities along the nanochannel responsive to being controlled for moving.
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Conductive paths in an integrated circuit are formed using multiple undifferentiated carbon nanotubes embedded in a conductive metal, which is preferably copper. Preferably, conductive paths include vias running between conductive layers. Preferably, composite vias are formed by forming a metal catalyst pad on a conductor at the via site, depositing and etching a dielectric layer to form a cavity, growing substantially parallel carbon nanotubes on the catalyst in the cavity, and filling the remaining voids in the cavity with copper. The next conductive layer is then formed over the via hole.
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Nanofluidische Feldeffekteinheit, aufweisend: einen nanofluidischen Kanal, der eine erste Seite und eine zweite Seite aufweist; einen ersten Satz von Elektroden angrenzend an die erste Seite des nanofluidischen Kanals; einen zweiten Satz von Elektroden angrenzend an die zweite gegenüberliegende Seite des nanofluidischen Kanals; und eine Steuereinheit zum Anlegen eines elektrischen Potentials an eine Elektrode; wobei die Elektroden des ersten Satzes von Elektroden so angeordnet sind, dass, wenn sich ein Fluid mit einem geladenen Molekül in dem nanofluidischen Kanal befindet, durch das Anlegen des elektrischen Potentials an den ersten Satz von Elektroden ein sich räumlich veränderndes elektrisches Feld erzeugt wird, das das geladene Molekül in einem festgelegten Bereich des Kanals einschließt; und wobei die Elektroden des zweiten Satzes von Elektroden so gegenüber dem ersten Satz von Elektroden angeordnet sind, dass durch Anlegen des elektrischen Potentials an den zweiten Satz von Elektroden relativ zu dem an den ersten Satz von Elektroden angelegten elektrischen ...