A low-noise silicon nitride nanopore device on a polymer substrate

Wook Choi, Eun Seok Jeon, Kyoung Yong Chun, Young Rok Kim, Kyeong Beom Park, Ki Bum Kim, Chang Soo Han

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Abstract

We report a novel low-noise nanopore device employing a polymer substrate. The Si substrate of a fabricated Si-substrate-based silicon nitride (Si3N4) membrane was replaced with a polymer substrate. As such, laser machining was used to make a micro-size hole through the polyimide (PI) substrate, and a thin Si3N4 membrane was then transferred onto the PI substrate. Finally, a nanopore was formed in the membrane using a transmission electron microscope for detection of biomolecules. Compared to the Si-substrate-based device, the dielectric noise was greatly reduced and the root-mean-square noise level was decreased from 146.7 to 5.4 pA. Using this device, the translocation of double-strand deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) was detected with a high signal/noise (S/N) ratio. This type of device is anticipated to be available for future versatile sequencing technologies.

Original languageEnglish
Article numbere0200831
JournalPloS one
Volume13
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018 Jul

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported by Basic Science Research Program (Grant no. NRF-2018R1A2A1A05023556) and ERC Program (Grant no. NRF-2016R1A5A1010148) through the National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning in Korea. This work was supported by Basic Science Research Program (Grant no. NRF-2018R1A2A1A05023556) and ERC Program (Grant no. NRF-2016R1A5A1010148) through the National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning in Korea. We thank Dr. Hionsuck Baik and KBSI for the support of HR-TEM.

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© 2018 Choi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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