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Title: Transistor-based particle detection systems and methods

Abstract

Transistor-based particle detection systems and methods may be configured to detect charged and non-charged particles. Such systems may include a supporting structure contacting a gate of a transistor and separating the gate from a dielectric of the transistor, and the transistor may have a near pull-in bias and a sub-threshold region bias to facilitate particle detection. The transistor may be configured to change current flow through the transistor in response to a change in stiffness of the gate caused by securing of a particle to the gate, and the transistor-based particle detection system may configured to detect the non-charged particle at least from the change in current flow.

Inventors:
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Issue Date:
Research Org.:
Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1183932
Patent Number(s):
9052281
Application Number:
13/748,171
Assignee:
Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, IN)
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
G - PHYSICS G01 - MEASURING G01N - INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
DOE Contract Number:  
FC52-08NA28617
Resource Type:
Patent
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Citation Formats

Jain, Ankit, Nair, Pradeep R., and Alam, Muhammad Ashraful. Transistor-based particle detection systems and methods. United States: N. p., 2015. Web.
Jain, Ankit, Nair, Pradeep R., & Alam, Muhammad Ashraful. Transistor-based particle detection systems and methods. United States.
Jain, Ankit, Nair, Pradeep R., and Alam, Muhammad Ashraful. Tue . "Transistor-based particle detection systems and methods". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1183932.
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