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