Refractometric sensors for lab-on-a-chip based on optical ring resonators

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 28-34

  White, Ian M ^b   Zhu, Hongying ^a,b   Suter, Jonathan D ^a,b   Hanumegowda, Niranjan M ^b   Oveys, Hesam ^b   Zourob, Mohammed ^c   Fan, Xudong ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Label free sensing; Optical ring resonator; Refractive index; Whispering gallery modes

Indexed keywords

LABEL-FREE SENSING; LIQUID CORE OPTICAL RING RESONATOR (LCORR); OPTICAL RING RESONATORS; WHISPERING GALLERY MODES;

FLUIDICS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; RESONATORS;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 33846271765     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2006.887927     Document Type: Article

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