Porous silicon based resonant mirrors for biochemical sensing

Sensors

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 6549-6556

  De Tommasi, Edoardo ^a   De Stefano, Luca ^a   Rea, Ilaria ^a,b   Di Sarno, Valentina ^a,b   Rotiroti, Lucia ^a,b   Arcari, Paolo ^b   Lamberti, Annalisa ^b   Sanges, Carmen ^b   Rendina, Ivo ^a  

^a CNR IMM   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

DNA optical biosensors; Porous silicon; Resonant mirrors

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL SENSING; DNA CONCENTRATION; HIGH REFRACTIVE INDEX; LABEL-FREE OPTICAL BIOSENSORS; OPTICAL BIO-SENSING; OPTICAL BIO-SENSORS; RESONANT MIRRORS; SENSOR SURFACES;

BIOSENSORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MIRRORS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAVEGUIDES;

POROUS SILICON;

EID: 55249103182     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s8106549     Document Type: Article

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