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Figure 15. The tethered bilayer membrane array. A) An optical microscope image of the probe pad
and the tungsten electrode tip. B) Graphical representation of the tethered bilayer membrane array.
The lower left corner shows the gold sensor pad covered with a tBLMs that incorporates ion channels.
An Ag/AgCl electrode situated in a patch micropipette was used as an electrode and was inserted into
the buffer drop. The gold substrate of the sensor pad was connected by a thin gold line to the probe
pad onto which a tungsten tip was lowered as a counter electrode. The inset shows the tBLM formed
at the gold surface of the sensor pad. (Reprinted from Ref. 181 with kind permission from Elsevier.)