Technique - (1) Giant magnetoresistance (GMR) spin-valve biosensing

Type: Experimental

Description: Spin-valve/GMR sensor chips functionalized with magnetic nanoparticle tags for quantitative, multiplexed molecular diagnostics.

Department(s)/lab(s): Electrical Engineering | Wang Lab (Spintronics/Biomagnetics) @ Stanford
Summary:

Wang develops giant-magnetoresistance (GMR) spin-valve biosensor chips that detect magnetic-nanoparticle-tagged biomolecules with high sensitivity and multiplexing for protein and nucleic-acid diagnostics -- a solid-state magnetic-sensing approach to biosensing that sits alongside NV-ensemble and OPM-based approaches at a very different sensitivity/format tradeoff.