• Title/Summary/Keyword: biochips

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Integration of immunohistochemical reactions into Electrochemical and Optical Analyses of Biochips (면역 조직화학 반응이 통합된 바이오칩의 전기화학 및 광학적 분석)

  • Choi Hyoung Gil;Hong Eun Kyoung;Lee Seung-Won;Yoon Hyun C.
    • KSBB Journal
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    • v.20 no.2 s.91
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    • pp.123-128
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    • 2005
  • We have addressed two important issues of immunosensing biochips, including the construction of antibody functionalized suface for efficient affinity reactions and the development of a signal registration strategy that converts biospecific reactions into highly quantifiable electrochemical and/or optical signals. The developed immunoassay reaction is an integrated version of enzyme-mediated immunoprecipitaion reaction, which is widely used in immunohistochemistry, and electrochemical signaling reaction. For the evaluation of analytical performance of fabricated immunosensing biochips, signaling for mouse IgG in antiserum was conducted. Applications of the developed strategy have been found for the evaluation of histology chemicals and for the signal amplification for array-type biochip analysis.

Properties and Applications of Magnetic Tunnel Junctions

  • Reiss, G.;Bruckl, H.;Thomas, A.;Justus, M.;Meyners, D.;Koop, H.
    • Journal of Magnetics
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.24-31
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    • 2003
  • The discoveries of antiferromagnetic coupling in Fe/Cr multilayers by Grunberg, the Giant Magneto Resistance by Fert and Grunberg and a large tunneling magnetoresistance at room temperature by Moodera have triggered enormous research on magnetic thin films and magnetoelectronic devices. Large opportunities are especially opened by the spin dependent tunneling resistance, where a strong dependence of the tunneling current on an external magnetic field can be found. We will briefly address important basic properties of these junctions like thermal, magnetic and dielectric stability and discuss scaling issues down to junction sizes below 0.01 $\mu\textrm{m}$$^2$with respect to single domain behavior, switching properties and edge coupling effects. The second part will give an overview on applications beyond the use of the tunneling elements as storage cells in MRAMs. This concerns mainly field programmable logic circuits, where we demonstrate the clocked operation of a programmed AND gate. The second 'unconventional' feature is the use as sensing elements in DNA or protein biochips, where molecules marked magnetically with commercial beads can be detected via the dipole stray field in a highly sensitive and relatively simple way.