Control of solid state dimensional features

摘要

A method for evaluating a polymer molecule (61) including linearly connected monomer residues includes providing a polymer molecule in a liquid, contacting the liquid with an insulating solid-state membrane (66) having a detector capable of detecting polymer molecule characteristics, and causing the polymer molecule to traverse a nanometer-sized aperture (68) in the solid-state membrane so that monomers of the polymer molecule traverse in sequential order, whereby the polymer molecule interacts linearly with the detector and data suitable to determine polymer molecule characteristics are obtained.