Investigation on living cells with a THz BioMEMS

A. Treizebre (1) , Bertrand Bocquet (1)

1 IEMN - Institut d’Électronique, de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie - UMR 8520

We have designed a nanometer Thz probe based on a Planar Goubau Line (PGL). We show that the propagation keeps low losses and remains quasi-TEM. We have tested a wire with a size down to 100 nm excited by a classical Coplanar Waveguide (CPW). This probe is integrated in a Biological MicroElectroMechanical System (BioMEMS) for characterizing the molecular information transfer between the microfluidic environment and the membrane of a single cell.

Keywords: Probes; Coplanar waveguides; Nanobioscience; Propagation losses; Testing; Wire; Microelectromechanical systems; Microfluidics; Biomembranes; Cells (biology)

Domains: Engineering Sciences [physics]

A. Treizebre, Bertrand Bocquet. Investigation on living cells with a THz BioMEMS. Joint 32nd International Conference on Infrared and Millimetre Waves and 15th International Conference on Terahertz Electronics, IRMMW-THz 2007, Sep 2007, Cardiff, United Kingdom. pp.1/82-83, ⟨10.1109/ICIMW.2007.4516404⟩. ⟨hal-00284456⟩