摘要:
Methods, structures, devices and systems are disclosed for fabricating and implementing nanoparticles with hollow core and sealable holes. In one aspect, a nanoparticle device can includes a shell structure including at least two layers including an internal layer and an external layer, the internal layer structured to enclose a hollow interior region and include one or more holes penetrating the internal layer, the external layer is of a porous material and formed around the internal layer and sealing the one or more holes, and a substance contained within the hollow interior region, the substance incapable of passing through the external layer.
摘要:
An electrochemical apparatus 1 permits electric-field-assisted fluidic assembly of objects 2 on a patterned silicon substrate 11 by means of electrical addressing. Charged objects 2 such as beads and live cells are moved electrokinetically, like as in electrophoresis, through a solution, typically water 3, towards a micro-patterned charged semiconductor electrode, such as a silicon electrode 11 patterned with silicon dioxide, silicon nitride or agarose gel. The charged objects 2 are thus localized and assembled, most typically into arrays of multiple or single particles, in accordance with the patterning of the electrode 11. Correlating with theoretical predictions, negatively charged polystyrene beads of 20 μm diameter, or live mammalian cells of 20-30 μm diameter, can be assembled and disassembled on 100 μm feature size micro-patterned substrates by means of electrical addressing. The apparatus 1 has applications in creation of active cellular arrays for cell biology research, drug discovery and tissue engineering.
摘要:
Small particles, for example 5 μm diameter microspheres or cells, within, and moving with, a fluid, normally water, that is flowing within microfluidic channels within a radiation-transparent substrate, typically molded PDMS clear plastic, are selectively manipulated, normally by being pushed with optical pressure forces, with laser light, preferably as arises from VCSELs operating in Laguerre-Gaussian mode, at branching junctions in the microfluidic channels so as to enter into selected downstream branches, thereby realizing particle switching and sorting, including in parallel. Transport of the small particles thus transpires by microfluidics while manipulation in the manner of optical tweezers arises either from pushing due to optical scattering force, or from pulling due to an attractive optical gradient force. Whether pushed or pulled, the particles within the flowing fluid may be optically sensed, and highly-parallel, low-cost, cell- and particle-analysis devices efficiently realized, including as integrated on bio-chips.
摘要:
Methods provide for electric field assisted self-assembly of functionalized programmable nucleic acids, nucleic acid modified structures, and other selective affinity or binding moieties as building blocks for: creating molecular electronic and photonic mechanisms; organization, assembly, communication and interconnection of nanostructures, submicron and micron sized components onto silicon or other materials; organization, assembly, communication and interconnection of nanostructures, submicron and micron sized components within parameters of microelectronic or optoelectronic components and devices; creating, arraying, and manufacturing photonic and electronic structures, devices, and systems. Methods for the fabrication of microscale and nanoscale devices include the steps of: releasing at least one component device from a support, transporting at least one component device to a support, and attaching at least one component device to the support. Optionally, the methods may further include the step of fabricating at least one component device on a first support.
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A high capacity (1 Gbyte), high throughput (1.1 Gbyte/s) motionless-head parallel-readout optical disk, and a detector array integrated on substrate with an Si/PLZT Exclusive-NOR gate array, implement a fast retrieval (25 ms) associative memory/content addressable memory capable of 10.sup.10 bit-operations per second. The disk stores arrayed 1-D holograms, preferably computer-generated from 128.times.128 pixel images by Fourier transform. Reverse transform upon disk readout is by lenses, preferably by a single hybrid refractive/diffractive lens. The reconstituted 2-D image, or optical word, is detected and compared to an electrical data word in an fast integrated optoelectronic circuit. The circuit permits (i) a variably preset "match" detection threshold, and (ii) dynamically variable, sub-image, field size of the search. In a first mode of operation all images (or sub-images) that are sufficiently close to a preset query threshold are retrieved in one disk rotation. In a second mode, Hamming distances for all images (sub-images) are calculated during a first disk rotation, and the identified best match(es) is (are) retrieved on a subsequent rotation. In a third mode a query image can be classified relative to all images upon a disk during one rotation of the disk. In still other modes the associative memory can search for images and sub-images (optical words) of variable size in parallel.
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A pseudo-analog electronic or optoelectronic neuron stores synaptic weights as analog quantities, preferably as charges upon capacitors or upon the gates of floating gate transistors. Multiplication of a stored synaptic weight times a binary pulse-width-modulated synapse input signal periodically produces electrical charge of a first polarity on a first synapse capacitor. Meanwhile a fixed charge of opposite polarity is periodically produced at the same frequency upon another, second, synapse capacitor. The charges on both synapse capacitors at many synapses are periodically accumulated, and integrated, at a single neuron soma in the form of pulse-amplitude-modulated charge-encoded signals. This accumulation, and integration, transpires continuously progressively by a switched-capacitor technique, and during the entire duration of the input signal to each synapse. The net final result, expressed in signed electrical charge, is converted back to a PWM binary signal for transmission to further neurons. A fully capacitive synapse typically occupies a compact area of 45.lambda..times.42.lambda., consumes less than 2 .mu.W dynamic power (at 1 MHz) and offers more than 90% of the full voltage scale for linear weight adaptation. It is therefore well suited to large scale parallel implementations of adaptive neural networks.