Colicin Ia is a bactericidal protein of 626 amino acid residues that kills its target cell by forming a channel in the inner membrane; it can also form voltage-dependent channels in planar lipid bilayer membranes. The channel-forming activity resides in the carboxy-terminal domain of approximately 177 residues. In the crystal structure of the water-soluble conformation, this domain consists of ...

A modified Schwarz-Christoffel transformation (SCT) is used to obtain guidedand radiated-wave characteristics of a singlycurved rectangular patch antenna. The method is to map a straight channel into an arbitrarily-curved channel. This simplifies the problem to that of a planar rectangular patch antenna. Applying conventional SCT to the problem confronts two difficulties: the region under inves...

Hemocyanin Channel, Planar Lipid Bilayer, Carbohydrates, D ivalent Cations, Protein Conformations The effects o f glucose and sucrose on the ionic conductance properties o f the channel formed by Megathura crenulata hemocyanin in planar lipid bilayers have been studied using membranes of different compositions. It was found that glucose at high concentrations strongly affects the time constants...

Microstructured planar substrates have been shown to be suitable for patch clamp recording from both whole cells and isolated patches of membrane, as well as for measurements from planar lipid bilayers. Here, we further explore this technology with respect to high-resolution, low noise single-channel recording. Using solvent-free lipid bilayers from giant unilamellar vesicles obtained by electr...

Considering the difficulties in planar CMOS transistor scaling to secure an acceptable gate to channel control FinFET based multi-gate (MuGFET) devices have been proposed as a technology option for replacing the existing technology. The desirability of FinFET that it’s operation principle is same as CMOS process. This permits to lengthening the gate scaling beyond the planar transistor limits, ...

Power MOSFETs (Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor) are the most commonly used power devices due to their low gate drive power, fast switching speed and superior paralleling capability. Most power MOSFETs feature a vertical structure with Source and Drain on opposite sides of the wafer in order to support higher current and voltage. Figure 1a and 1b show the basic device structure...

This paper reports on the fabrication and experimental characterisation of improved design AC eletroosmotic micropumps. Since the first study and analysis of AC electroosmosis by Ramos et al. [1], many devices have been fabricated and tested [2]. The basic planar electrode design was improved and increased pumping velocities were measured. Among the proposed improvements, 3D electrode design se...

We propose a simple method for the determination of liquid-crystal (LC) polar anchoring energy by electrical measurements. The basic idea of this method is a two-channel scheme for capacitance measurements. The first channel uses one cell with a planar LC cell, while the second a LC cell with vertical alignment. One of the LC cells can have a high pretilt angle. The proposed method allows inves...