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US 2017/0284935 A1Published application
System and method for sensing and trapping nanoparticles with plasmonic nanopores
AssigneePurdue Research Foundation
InventorsJustus C Ndukaife, Alexandra Boltasseva, Agbai Nnanna
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Abstract
An apparatus for trapping and sensing nanoparticles using plasmonic nanopores, comprising a conductive transparent layer, a conductive film layer mounted to a substrate, the film layer comprising a plurality of nanopores for trapping nanoparticles contained in a fluid situated between the conductive transparent layer and the conductive film layer, and an electric field source connected between the transparent layer and the film layer.
Claims15
An apparatus, comprising:
- a conductive transparent layer;
- a conductive film aperture layer mounted to a substrate, the aperture layer comprising a plurality of nanopores for trapping nanoparticles contained in a fluid situated between the transparent layer and the aperture layer;
- an electric field source connected between the transparent layer and the aperture layer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.