Design for supported planar waveguides for obtaining mid-IR evanescent-wave absorption spectra from biomembranes of individual cells

Applied Spectroscopy

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 592-597

  Braiman, Mark S ^a   Plunkett, Susan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

FT IR; Ge waveguide; IR microscope; Theoretical sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CELL MEMBRANES; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONFORMATIONS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GERMANIUM; IONS; LIGHT SOURCES; MINIATURE INSTRUMENTS; PROTEINS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORS;

ATTENUATED TOTAL REFLECTION (ATR) SPECTROSCOPY; INFRARED MICROSCOPES; MIDINFRARED EVANESCENT WAVE ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; VOLTAGE GATED STRUCTURES; WAVEGUIDE SENSORS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0031120527     PISSN: 00037028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1366/0003702971940666     Document Type: Article

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