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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120070930 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO FABRICATE POLYMER ARRAYS ON PATTERNED WAFERS USING ELECTROCHEMICAL SYNTHESIS A wafer having a plurality of dies (also called array chips) on the wafer, the die having an electrode to generate a deprotecting reagent, a working electrode to electrochemically synthesize a material, a confinement electrode adjacent to the working electrode to confin... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120045368 | Chemical Coating of Microwell for Electrochemical Detection Device The described embodiments may provide a method of fabricating a chemical detection device. The method may comprise forming a microwell above a CMOS device. The microwell may comprise a bottom surface and sidewalls. The method may further comprise applying a first chemic... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120037921 | Electrical Devices With Enhanced Electrochemical Activity and Manufacturing Methods Thereof In some aspects, a device is provided having a member with a region of enhanced electrochemical activity. In one aspect, a sensor of enhanced electrochemical activity is provided for detecting an analyte concentration level in a bio-fluid sample. The sensor may include ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120037961 | Methods and Apparatus for Measuring Analytes Using Large Scale FET Arrays Methods and apparatus relating to very large scale FET arrays for analyte measurements. ChemFET (e.g., ISFET) arrays may be fabricated using conventional CMOS processing techniques based on improved FET pixel and array designs that increase measurement sensitivity and a... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120036919 | NANOWIRE SENSOR HAVING A NANOWIRE AND ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE FILM A nanowire sensor includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a sensing element connecting the first electrode and the second electrode. The sensing element includes at least one nanowire connecting the first electrode and the second electrode and an electricall... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120025330 | FABRICATION METHOD OF CARBON NANOTUBE FILM AND SENSOR BASED ON CARBON NANOTUBE FILM A method for fabricating a carbon nanotube film floating on a bottom is provided. The fabrication method of a carbon nanotube film comprises: forming electrodes on a substrate; arranging a suspension comprising a plurality of carbon nanotubes on the electrodes; and arra... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120024700 | SENSOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD Disclosed is a sensor device (10) comprising a substrate (100) carrying a sensing element (110), and a metallization stack on said substrate for providing interconnections to said sensing element, the metallization stack comprising a plurality of pa... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120018722 | ION-SENSITIVE SENSOR WITH MULTILAYER CONSTRUCTION IN THE SENSITIVE REGION An ion-sensitive sensor with an EIS structure includes: a semiconductor substrate, on which a layer of a substrate oxide 103 is produced; an adapting or matching layer, which is prepared on the substrate oxide; a chemically stable intermediate insulator, which is... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120021402 | BIOSENSOR APPARATUSES AND METHODS THEREOF A biosensor has one or more field effect transistors each comprising a source region and a drain region separated by a channel region and a gate positioned offset and spaced from the channel region. The biosensor also has one or more molecular probes coupled to at least... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120015467 | BIOSENSOR USING NANODOT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME A biosensor using a nanodot and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. A silicon nanowire can be formed by a CMOS process to reduce manufacturing costs. In addition, an electrically charged nanodot is coupled to a target molecule to be detected, in order to re... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120012900 | SEMICONDUCTOR BIO-SENSORS AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME A method of manufacturing a semiconductor bio-sensor comprises providing a substrate, forming a first dielectric layer on the substrate, forming a patterned first conductive layer on the first dielectric layer, the patterned first conductive layer including a first port... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120007099 | MULTI-GAS SENSOR AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SENSOR The present invention is a multi-gas sensor and a method for fabricating the multi-gas sensor. The multi-gas sensor comprises a substrate, an epitaxial layer, a metal oxide layer, a first metal layer, a second metal layer and multiple third... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120001235 | CHEMICALLY SENSITIVE SENSOR WITH LIGHTLY DOPED DRAINS A chemically sensitive sensor with a lightly doped region that affects an overlap capacitance between a gate and an electrode of the chemical sensitive sensor. The lightly doped region extends beneath and adjacent to a gate region of the chemical sensitive sensor. Modif... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110316054 | Method, Apparatus, and System for Micromechanical Gas Chemical Sensing Capacitor A method for fabrication of capacitive environment sensors is provided in which the sensor elements are integrated in a CMOS structure with electronics through the use of complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) fabrication methods. Also provided are environment s... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110316565 | SCHOTTKY JUNCTION SI NANOWIRE FIELD-EFFECT BIO-SENSOR/MOLECULE DETECTOR A Schottky junction silicon nanowire field-effect biosensor/molecule detector with a nanowire thickness of 10 nanometer or less and an aligned source/drain workfunction for increased sensitivity. The nanowire channel is coated with a surface treatment to which a molecul... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110303953 | GAS SENSOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE GAS SENSOR It is an object to provide a gas sensor which is formed by a simple manufacturing process. Another object is to provide a gas sensor whose manufacturing cost is reduced. A transistor which includes an oxide semiconductor layer in contact with a gas and which serves as a... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110279125 | FET Nanopore Sensor A method of using a sensor comprising a field effect transistor (FET) embedded in a nanopore includes placing the sensor in an electrolyte comprising at least one of biomolecules and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA); placing an electrode in the electrolyte; applying a gate v... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110260219 | PROTECTIVE LAYERS SUITABLE FOR EXHAUST GASES FOR HIGH-TEMPERATURE CHEMFET EXHAUST GAS SENSORS In a method for producing a sensor element including at least one sensitive component, a masking layer made of a material which is thermally decomposable without residue is applied to the sensitive component, the sensitive component being essentially covered by the mask... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110248320 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING ANALYTES Methods and apparatus relating to FET arrays including large FET arrays for monitoring chemical and/or biological reactions such as nucleic acid sequencing-by-synthesis reactions. Some methods provided herein relate to improving signal (and also signal to noise ratio) f... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110237012 | METHOD FOR FABRICATING NOVEL HIGH-PERFORMANCE FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTOR BIOSENSOR BASED ON CONDUCTIVE POLYMER NANOMATERIALS FUNCTIONALIZED WITH ANTI-VEGF ADAPTER Disclosed is a method for fabricating a high-performance field-effect transistor biosensor for diagnosing cancers using micro conductive polymer nanomaterials funtionalized with anti-VEGF aptamer. Disclosed is a high-sensitivity field-effect transistor biosensor for dia... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110227043 | GRAPHENE SENSOR A method for forming a sensor includes forming a channel in substrate, forming a sacrificial layer in the channel, forming a sensor having a first dielectric layer disposed on the substrate, a graphene layer disposed on the first dielectric layer, and a second dielectri... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110227061 | SEMICONDUCTOR OXIDE NANOFIBER-NANOROD HYBRID STRUCTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL GAS SENSOR USING THE SAME Provided is an environmental gas sensor including an insulating substrate, a metal electrode formed above the insulating substrate, and a sensing layer formed of a semiconductor oxide nanofiber-nanorod hybrid structure above the metal electrode. The environmental gas se... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110217763 | A SEMICONDUCTOR FOR MEASURING BIOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS An apparatus and method are disclosed for electrically directly detecting biomolecular binding in a semiconductor. The semiconductor can be based on electrical percolation of nanomaterial formed in the gate region. In one embodiment of an apparatus, a semiconductor incl... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110212562 | METHOD OF PRODUCING A BIOSENSOR A method for manufacturing a biosensor includes forming a laminate of a first silicon oxide film and a polysilicon film on one surface of a silicon substrate; forming a second silicon oxide film on the other surface of the silicon substrate; forming a source electrode, ... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110197657 | Gas Sensors, Methods of Preparation Thereof, Methods of Selecting Gas Sensor Materials, and Methods of Use of Gas Sensors Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for methods of selecting a nanostructured deposit for a conductometric gas sensor, methods of detecting a gas based on the acidic or basic characteristic of the gas using a conductometric gas sensor, devices including conduc... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110198674 | GAS-SENSITIVE FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A GAS-SENSITIVE FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR A gas-sensitive field effect transistor is described which includes a semiconductor substrate having a main substrate surface. The semiconductor substrate has a source region, a gate region, and a drain region. The field effect transistor also includes an insulating lay... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110193183 | NANOWIRE SENSOR, NANOWIRE SENSOR ARRAY AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME A method of fabricating a sensor comprising a nanowire on a support substrate with a first semiconductor layer arranged on the support substrate is disclosed. The method comprises forming a fin structure from the first semiconductor layer, the fin structure comprising a... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110186939 | SEMICONDUCTOR TYPE GAS SENSOR AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF This invention provides a semiconductor type gas sensor that can considerably increase the detection sensitivity to low-concentration gases, and can increase the response-recovery speed to achieve a conspicuous improvement in the overall performance, as well as a manufa... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110186446 | Method for Producing a Subminiature "Micro-Chip" Oxygen Sensor for Control of Internal Combustion Engines or Other Combustion Processes, Oxygen Sensor and an Exhaust Safety Switch A method of making a sub-miniature “micro-chip” oxygen sensor is provided where multiple sensor elements are applied to a dielectric ceramic substrate consisting of a heater pattern, followed by a dielectric layer. Intermeshing electrodes are then applied either ove... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110180884 | METHODS, APPARATUSES, AND SYSTEMS FOR MICROMECHANICAL GAS CHEMICAL SENSING CAPACITOR A capacitive chemical sensor, along with methods of making and using the sensor are provided. The sensors described herein eliminate undesirable capacitance by etching away the substrate underneath the capacitive chemical sensor, eliminating most of the substrate capaci... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110179852 | Molecule Detection Device Formed in a Semiconductor Structure 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 mole... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110169056 | HYDROGEN ION-SENSITIVE FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF A hydrogen ion-sensitive field effect transistor and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The hydrogen ion-sensitive field effect transistor includes a semiconductor substrate, an insulating layer, a transistor gate, and a sensing film. A gate area is defined on... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110163296 | CNT-BASED SENSORS: DEVICES, PROCESSES AND USES THEREOF Disclosed herein are methods of preparing and using doped MWNT electrodes, sensors and field-effect transistors. Devices incorporating doped MWNT electrodes, sensors and field-effect transistors are also disclosed.... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110147803 | Gas Sensor And Flip-Chip Method For Its Manufacture A sensor element is described that includes at least one semiconductor component having a gas-sensitive layer which is attached to a substrate by the flip-chip method, the gas-sensitive layer facing the substrate and a supply arrangement being provided to supply a gas t... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110140208 | FABRICATION PROCESS OF A BIOSENSOR ON A SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE The disclosure relates to a fabrication process of a biosensor on a semiconductor wafer, comprising steps of: making a central photosensitive zone comprising at least one pixel-type biological analysis device comprising a photosensitive layer, and a first peripheral zon... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110140209 | MULTI-LAYER MICRO STRUCTUREFOR SENSING SUBSTANCE A micro structure for sensing a substance using light scattering includes a substrate, a first layer on the substrate, wherein the first layer comprises a metallic material, a second layer over the first layer, and a mask layer over the second layer. A plurality of nano... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110138882 | SEMICONDUCTOR GAS SENSOR HAVING LOW POWER CONSUMPTION Provided are a structure and operating method of a semiconductor gas sensor having low power consumption. The semiconductor gas sensor is adapted to adsorb gas to a low-dimensional semiconductor nanomaterial at room temperature, output a change in resistance of the low-... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110133255 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MOLECULE DETECTION USING NANOPORES A detector device: a source region (S), a drain region (D) and a gate contact (100) on a substrate (104), with a channel region between the source and drain regions (S, D), an insulator layer over the substrate, comprising vias (140, 142, 144) fille... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110127619 | BIOSENSOR DEVICES AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME A biosensor device is provided, including a first semiconductor layer formed over an interconnect structure. A plurality of detection elements are formed in the first semiconductor layer. An optical filter layer is formed over and physically contacts the first semicondu... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110115464 | CHEMICAL-SELECTIVE DEVICE A smartcard or other media that detects the presence of chemical and/or biological compounds or other items of interest on individuals handling by using chemical-selective devices. These chemical-selective devices can include non-linear (e.g., diode and/or transistor) a... | 05/19/2011 |
