Patent ID: 8236245

Claim:
A non-functionalized, active-matrix, DNA-fluid-assay micro-structure comprising a single substrate having a surface, and disposed in common on that, surface, in the arrangement of a matrix array, plural, TFT-technology-fabricated pixels, each pixel including (a) a functionalizable assay site, and (b) disposed operatively and laterally adjacent each pixel's assay site, a control transistor, and an energizable optical medium operatively connected to, and energizable by operation of, the transistor, the optical medium being structured, when energized by operation of the transistor, to create from, and adjacent, its location on the substrate surface, and to bathe the associated, adjacent assay site with, an ambient light field which is operable to assist in performing subsequent DNA fluid-assay sensor probe creation on said site, thus to create a functionalized fluid-assay site.