{"id":1915,"date":"2011-05-01T19:32:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T19:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/?p=1915"},"modified":"2016-06-07T19:37:16","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T19:37:16","slug":"oxide-semiconductor-nanowire-biosensors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/oxide-semiconductor-nanowire-biosensors\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxide Semiconductor Nanowire Biosensors"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"style7\" align=\"center\"><span class=\"style9\">Stephen Fleming with Xuan Gao<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"center\"><span class=\"style11\"><em><u>Oxide Semiconductor Nanowire Biosensors<\/u><\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n<p align=\"justify\">Recently, several physics research groups have demonstrated that nanowire field effect transistors (FETs) can function as sensors to detect extremely low concentrations of biological molecules in solution.\u00a0 Continued development and improved understanding of these types of sensors is essential for the emergence of new technologies in disease diagnostics, drug screening, and the single molecule study of biomolecular reactions, to name only a few areas.\u00a0 Currently, the ability to directly and specifically sense molecules in solution would be groundbreaking for medicine, allowing real-time sensing to be incorporated into biomedical devices, as well as used in research.\u00a0 Such direct sensing is not currently possible with existing technologies.\u00a0 This research aims to contribute to an understanding of the functionality of oxide nanowire FETs, and demonstrate their potential for use as biomolecular sensors, aided in low concentration detection by dielectrophoretic concentration of analyte molecules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Fleming with Xuan Gao<em>Oxide Semiconductor Nanowire Biosensors<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Recently, several physics research groups have demonstrated that nanowire field effect transistors (FETs) can function as sensors to detect extremely low concentrations of biological molecules in solution.\u00a0 Continued development and improved understanding of these types of sensors is essential for the emergence of new technologies in disease diagnostics, drug screening, and the single molecule study of biomolecular reactions, to name only a few areas.\u00a0 Currently, the ability to directly and specifically sense molecules in solution would be groundbreaking for medicine, allowing real-time sensing to be incorporated into biomedical devices,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/oxide-semiconductor-nanowire-biosensors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oxide Semiconductor Nanowire Biosensors<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[47,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1931,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions\/1931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}