Silicon-on-insulator guided mode resonant grating for evanescent field molecular sensing

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 18371-18380

  Schmid, J H ^a   Sinclair, W ^a   Garcia J ^b   Janz, S ^a   Lapointe, J ^a   Poitras, D ^a   Li, Y ^a   Mischki, T ^a   Lopinski, G ^a   Cheben, P ^a   Delage A ^a   Densmore, A ^a   Waldron, P ^a   Xu, D X ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; MONOLAYERS; PROTEINS; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; WAVEGUIDES;

GUIDED MODE RESONANT GRATING; GUIDED-MODE RESONANCE; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MOLECULAR SENSING; PROTEIN STREPTAVIDIN; RESONANCE WAVELENGTHS; RIGOROUS COUPLED WAVE ANALYSIS; TRANSVERSE MAGNETIC MODES;

EVANESCENT FIELDS;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GENETIC PROCEDURES; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSDUCER;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MOLECULAR PROBE TECHNIQUES; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SILICON; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 70349676197     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.018371     Document Type: Article

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