Whispering gallery mode biosensors consisting of quantum dot-embedded microspheres

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1974-1983

  Beier, Hope T ^a   Coté, Gerard L ^a   Meissner, Kenith E ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biosensor; Evanescent field; Quantum dots; Refractive index; Whispering gallery modes

Indexed keywords

ANALYTES; BIOSENSING; BOVINE SERUM ALBUMINS; CONTINUOUS WAVE; ETHANOL WATER MIXTURES; EVANESCENT FIELD; HIGH-INDEX LAYERS; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; INDEX OF REFRACTION; MINIMAL SAMPLE; OPTICAL RESONANCE; POLYSTYRENE MICRO-SPHERE; QUANTUM DOT; QUANTUM DOTS; RESONANT MODE; SPECTRAL POSITION; SPECTRAL SHIFT; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; WAVELENGTH SHIFT; WHISPERING GALLERY MODES;

BIOSENSORS; BODY FLUIDS; ETHANOL; LIGHT; LIGHT REFRACTION; LIGHT SOURCES; MICROSPHERES; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; POLYSTYRENES; QUANTUM OPTICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; RESONANCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

MICROSPHERE; QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GENETIC PROCEDURES; INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MICROSPHERES; QUANTUM DOTS; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 70349208992     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-009-9713-2     Document Type: Article

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