Anuj Girdhar, Chaitanya Sathe, Klaus Schulten, and Jean-Pierre Leburton.
Gate-modulated graphene quantum point contact device for DNA
sensing.
Journal of Computational Electronics, 13:839-846, 2014.
(PMC: PMC4224323)
GIRD2014
In this paper, we present a computational model to describe the electrical response of a
constricted graphene nanoribbon (GNR) to biomolecules translocating through a nanopore.
For this purpose, we use a self-consistent 3D Poisson equation solver coupled with an
accurate six-band tight-binding model to assess the ability for a gate electrode to
modulate both the carrier concentration as well as the conductance in the GNR. We also
investigate the role of electrolytic screening on the sensitivity of the conductance to
external charges and find that the gate electrode can either suppress or enhance the
screening of biomolecular charges in the nanopore depending on the value of its potential.
Translocating a double-stranded DNA molecule along the pore axis imparted a large
change in the conductance at particular gate voltages, suggesting that such a device can
be used to sense translocating biomolecules and can be actively tuned to maximize its
sensitivity.
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