Title :
Modeling of electron transport in biomolecules: Application to DNA
Author :
Anantram, Manjeri P. ; Jianqing Qi
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Abstract :
We review our work aimed at understanding electron transport in DNA molecules and present new results on specific strands. The motivation for our work stems from both: (i) DNA offering a unique framework for nanoscale electronic devices and (ii) recent work to detect diseases by measuring electrical current in DNA. Designer sequences of DNA show the theoretical possibility to behave as superlattices.
Keywords :
DNA; bioelectric phenomena; diseases; molecular biophysics; molecular configurations; patient diagnosis; superlattices; DNA designer sequences; DNA molecules; biomolecules; diseases; electrical current; electron transport modeling; nanoscale electronic devices; superlattices; Biological system modeling; Computational modeling; Couplings; DNA; Diseases; Molecular biophysics; Superlattices;
Conference_Titel :
Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), 2013 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
DOI :
10.1109/IEDM.2013.6724736
