We report two-dimensional 2D electron and hole gases induced at the surface of graphite by the electric field effect. The 2D gases reside within a few near-surface atomic layers and exhibit mobilities up to 15 000 and 60 000 cm2/V s at room and liquid-helium temperatures, respectively. The mobilities imply ballistic transport on m scale. Pronounced Shubnikov–de Haas oscillations reveal the exis...

Models and microfluidic experiments are presented of an electrophoretic separation technique in which charged particles whose mobilities exceed a tunable threshold are trapped between the crests of a longitudinal electric wave traveling through a stationary viscous fluid. The wave is created by applying periodic potentials to electrode arrays above and below a microchannel. Predicted average ve...

Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) is an emerging technique where the interaction between biomolecules is detected through their correlated motion. It offers the advantage of high (single-molecule) sensitivity; independence of molecular orientation or distance; and simultaneous measurement of molecular interactions, concentrations, and mobilities. Here we introduce the principle of the...

We propose a technique for achieving large improvements in carrier mobilities in 2- and 1-dimensional semiconductor nanostructures by modifying their dielectric environments. We show that by coating the nanostructures with high-kappa dielectrics, scattering from Coulombic impurities can be strongly damped. Though screening is also weakened, the damping of Coulombic scattering is much larger, an...

Mobilities and carrier densities of modulation doped Al0.2Ga0.8Sb/GaSb heterostructures are presented for the first time. The structures studied were grown by molecular beam epitaxy and consisted of a single heterojunction with Te compensation doping to reduce the intrinsic p-type background. Hall measurements were performed from 30–300 K, giving ptype mobilities peaking at 3240 cm/Vs, a consid...

Microchip electrophoresis is used (i) to assign structures of serum N-glycans and (ii) quantitatively compare samples derived from ovarian cancer patients and disease-free (control) individuals. Neutralization of native charges from sialic acids present on serum N-glycans allowed direct correlation between electrophoretic mobility and glycan mass. From a calibration curve of the masses and mobi...

HighNMOSFET structures designed for enhancement mode operation have been fabricated with mobilities exceeding 6000 cm Vs. The NMOSFET structures which have been grown by molecular beam epitaxy on 3-in semi-insulating GaAs substrate comprise a 10 nm strained InGaAs channel layer and a highdielectric layer ( = 20). Electron mobilities of 6000 and 3822 cm Vs have been measured for sheet carrier co...

Electron mobilities in supercritical and liquid helium were investigated as a function of the density. The mobilities were derived from I(V) curves measured in a high-pressure cryogenic cell using a corona discharge in point-plane electrode geometry for charge generation. The presented data spans a wide pressure and temperature range due to the versatility of our experimental set-up. Where data...

Here we report on the unexpected electrophoretic behavior of complexes between rod-like virus particles (virions) and bivalent antibodies. The multiple complexes formed by the virions and antibodies migrated with electrophoretic mobilities of much greater absolute values than those of the unbound virions or antibodies while typically complexes have mobilities intermediate to those of their comp...