Physics Fall Colloquium- Nanocoax: A Device Architecture for Bioelectronic Investigations

Abstract: We discuss a nanoscale coaxial architecture with potential utility in nanophotonics, photovoltaics, neuroprosthetics, and bioelectronic, chemical and neuro sensing. As subwavelength optical waveguides, these nanostructures can be used in a range of nanoscale manipulations of light, including optical nanoscopy and lithography, high efficiency solar cells, high electrode-density neuro-implants and discrete optical metamedia. A modification of the basic structure enables the fabrication of highly sensitive molecular sensors and high resolution bioelectronic probes, including optoelectronic neurostimulators/sensors (optrodes). We will report on aspects of these applications, including radial p-n junction solar cells, and bio, electrochemical and neuro sensing. 
 
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