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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 21.
Published in final edited form as: Analyst. 2015 May 19;140(14):4779–4791. doi: 10.1039/c5an00075k

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Principle of resistive-pulse sensing. A potential is applied across a nanopore to electrokinetically drive the particle through the pore. As a particle transits the pore, the resistance typically increases, and current decreases. Transient decreases in current are observed as a series of ‘pulses’ that are proportional to particle size. The width of each pulse is proportional to the velocity of the particle through the pore.