Intellectual Property Law

US Patent 7898005 - Nanofluidic transistor

This patent has priority from 2002 and includes some basic claims for nanofluidic devices constructed from silica nanotubes useful for DNA detection. Claim 14 reads:

14. A nanofluidic transistor, comprising:

a fluidic source;

a fluidic drain;

an inorganic nanotube coupled in fluidic communication between said fluidic source and fluidic drain; and

a gate electrode retained proximal said inorganic nanotube for controlling the flow of ions between source and drain regions in response to the voltage applied to said gate electrode.

Full post as published by TinytechIP on March 02, 2011 (boomark / email).