Patent ID: 8236244

Claim:
An active-matrix, thin-film-transistor-based, DNA fluid-assay micro-structure comprising a substrate having a face, plural pixels formed in common on said substrate's said face in the arrangement of a matrix, and within, as an included part of, each pixel on said face, (a) at least one initially non-functionalized, DNA oligonucleotide-probe-lacking, assay site, and (b), disposed on said face, laterally adjacent said site, (1) a thin-film energizing transistor, and (2) an energizable, light-field-creating functionalizer operatively connected to, and energizable by, said transistor, and whose created light field, when created via associated transistor energizing, is operable to functionalize the pixel by participating in the building, from a precursor condition of the pixel, of a DNA oligonucleotide probe on said at least one site.