System for washing a sensor structure
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1. A sensor wash system, comprising:
- a sensor structure having multiple electrochemical sensors on a substrate, the sensors each being configured to detect a presence and/or amount of a compound on the sensor,each of the electrochemical sensors including multiple electrodes,the electrodes in each electrochemical sensor including a working electrode to which compounds are bound such that a portion of the compounds are specifically bound and another portion of the compounds are non-specifically bound;
a wash source concurrently generating a plurality of streams, different streams are each incident on a different one of the working electrodes such that the different streams each removes non-specifically bound compounds from the working electrode that receives the stream while leaving specifically bound compounds bound to the working electrode that receives the stream.
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Abstract
The system includes a wash source configured to concurrently generate a plurality of streams that are each incident on a sensor structure configured to detect a presence and/or amount of a compound on the sensor structure. The sensor structure has electrodes on a substrate. The wash source generates the streams such that each one of the streams is incident on a different one of the electrodes. Each of the streams is incident on one of the electrodes at an angle that is non-perpendicular to the sensor.
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1. A sensor wash system, comprising:
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a sensor structure having multiple electrochemical sensors on a substrate, the sensors each being configured to detect a presence and/or amount of a compound on the sensor, each of the electrochemical sensors including multiple electrodes, the electrodes in each electrochemical sensor including a working electrode to which compounds are bound such that a portion of the compounds are specifically bound and another portion of the compounds are non-specifically bound; a wash source concurrently generating a plurality of streams, different streams are each incident on a different one of the working electrodes such that the different streams each removes non-specifically bound compounds from the working electrode that receives the stream while leaving specifically bound compounds bound to the working electrode that receives the stream. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A method of operating a wash system, comprising:
concurrently spraying streams of a wash liquid onto a sensor structure having multiple electrochemical sensors on a substrate, the sensors each being configured to detect a presence and/or amount of a compound on the sensor, each of the electrochemical sensors including multiple electrodes, the electrodes in each electrochemical sensor including a working electrode to which compounds are bound such that a portion of the compounds are specifically bound and another portion of the compounds are non-specifically bound, the streams being sprayed such that each one of the streams is incident on a different one of the working electrodes such that the different streams each removes non-specifically bound compounds from the working electrode that receives the stream while leaving specifically bound compounds bound to the working electrode that receives the stream, and each of the streams being incident on one of the electrodes at an angle that is non-perpendicular to the sensor. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22)
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