Whispering Gallery Mode Carousel - A photonic mechanism for enhanced nanoparticle detection In biosensing

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 6230-6238

  Arnold, S ^a   Keng, D ^a   Shopova, S I ^a   Holler, S ^b   Zurawsky, W ^a   Vollmer, F ^c  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NovaWave Technologies   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; MICROSENSORS; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL RESONATORS; SOLUTIONS;

ATTRACTIVE FORCE; GRADIENT FORCE; INDIVIDUAL NANOPARTICLES; INTERFACIAL INTERACTION; NANOPARTICLE SIZES; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; SENSING REGION; TRAPPING POTENTIAL;

WHISPERING GALLERY MODES;

NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GENETIC PROCEDURES; INSTRUMENTATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PHOTON; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PHOTONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 65149092441     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.006230     Document Type: Article

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