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sensor (device)

Known as: Sensor, sensors 
A device that responds to a stimulus, such as heat, light, or pressure, and generates a signal that can be measured or interpreted.
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Review
2011
Review
2011
Nanopore sensors for nucleic acid analysis.
Nanopore analysis is an emerging technique that involves using a voltage to drive molecules through a nanoscale pore in a… 
Review
2008
Review
2008
Sensors and actuators based on carbon nanotubes and their composites: A review
Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Making it stick: convection, reaction and diffusion in surface-based biosensors
The past decade has seen researchers develop and apply novel technologies for biomolecular detection, at times approaching hard… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Sequence-Specific Label-Free DNA Sensors Based on Silicon Nanowires
Highly sensitive and sequence-specific DNA sensors were fabricated based on silicon nanowires (SiNWs) with single stranded (ss… 
Review
2003
Review
2003
Conducting polymers in electronic chemical sensors
Conducting organic polymers have found two main kinds of application in electronics so far: as materials for construction of… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Enzyme-Coated Carbon Nanotubes as Single-Molecule Biosensors
We demonstrate the use of individual semiconducting single-wall carbon nanotubes as versatile biosensors. Controlled attachment… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Spontaneous Polarization-Induced Nanohelixes, Nanosprings, and Nanorings of Piezoelectric Nanobelts
Growth of (0001) facet-dominated, free-standing, piezoelectric zinc oxide (ZnO) nanostructures is challenged by the divergence of… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Stable and highly sensitive gas sensors based on semiconducting oxide nanobelts
Gas sensors have been fabricated using the single-crystalline SnO2 nanobelts. Electrical characterization showed that the… 
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Hydrogen Sensors and Switches from Electrodeposited Palladium Mesowire Arrays
Hydrogen sensors and hydrogen-activated switches were fabricated from arrays of mesoscopic palladium wires. These palladium… 
Review
1998
Review
1998
Bulk micromachining of silicon
Bulk silicon etching techniques, used to selectively remove silicon from substrates, have been broadly applied in the fabrication… 
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