Our cover from the October 2014 issue of Nano Letters

A series of TEM images of HIM-drilled nanopores of various size (scale 5 nm)

Artistic rendering of translocating DNA with depurination damage

Plot showing the dose vs diameter relationship for HIM pore formation as a function of membrane thickness

A nanopore device with intrinsic fluorescence removed controllably for optimized optical detection of translocation events

TEM image of an array of nanopores in a SiN membrane thinned to approx. 6 nm, made entirely with HIM

An 11x11 HIM nanopore array surrounded by larger drilled structures

Artistic rendering of DNA translocating through a thin nanopore device

Artistic rendering of a carbon nanotube translocating through a nanopore

3D rendering of the topography of a >100 nm membrane following local thinning

Rendering of DNA translocating through a solid-state nanopore

3D rendering of a nanopore array

Artistic rendering of the insertion of an alpha hemolysin protein pore into a solid-state nanopore

False-color SEM image of a torsional device built on a single-wall carbon nanotube. Scale bar 500 nm.

Artistic rendering of alpha hemolysin insertion into solid-state nanopores. Courtesy the Cees Dekker Lab at TU Delft and Tremani.