IBM DNA “Transistor”
It isn’t really a transistor, it’s a gadget for sequencing DNA through a nanopore. But it’s getting close to the way one expects nanotech to read a molecule, as it it were a magnetic tape or the like.
Now if they could only come up with a way to write it…
October 7th, 2009 at 11:32 AM
Since it isn’t really a transistor, why are they using that term? Seems misleading…
October 7th, 2009 at 5:05 PM
Harvard Nanopore Group has been working on this for ages. They use carbon nanotubes as the sensing element across the nanopore instead of metal electrodes.
September 4th, 2011 at 10:34 AM
Has anyone heard of how this is going?
September 9th, 2011 at 3:43 PM
Ed: from what I can make out, there doesn’t seem to be much development of this since 2009.
December 30th, 2011 at 9:10 PM
Chris,
I agree with you, it seems very misleading since it is not a transistor.
ES, Do you know exactly how long Harvard Nanopore Group has been working on this for?
Steven