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Optical trapping assisted detection rate enhancement of single molecules on a nanopore optofluidic chip
M Rahman1, M Harrington1, M A Stott2
1School of Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA.
Optica
|February 18, 2021
Abstract:
We use optical trapping to deliver molecular targets to the vicinity of a nanopore for high-throughput single molecule analysis on an optofluidic chip. DNA detection rates increase over 80× to enable detection at attomolar concentrations.
