Development of a miniaturized liquid core waveguide system with nanoporous dielectric cladding - A potential biosensing platform

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1711-1718

  Korampally, Venumadhav ^a   Mukherjee, Somik ^b   Hossain, Maruf ^a   Manor, Rosalynn ^c   Yun, Minseong ^a   Gangopadhyay, Keshab ^a   Polo Parada, Luis ^d   Gangopadhyay, Shubhra ^a  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b WESTMINSTER COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Liquid core waveguides (LCWs); Nanoporous dielectrics (NDs); Optofluidic systems

Indexed keywords

BIOSENSING PLATFORMS; BIOSENSOR APPLICATIONS; CLADDING LAYER; HIGH SURFACE AREA; HIGH-THROUGHPUT; INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; INTEGRATION ISSUES; LIGHT GUIDING; LIQUID CORE WAVEGUIDE; LIQUID CORE WAVEGUIDES (LCWS); NANO PARTICULATES; NANOPOROUS DIELECTRICS; NANOPOROUS DIELECTRICS (NDS); OPTOFLUIDIC SYSTEMS; ORGANOSILICATES; SENSOR PROBES; TEFLON AF; ULTRA LOW REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAVEGUIDE DESIGN; WAVEGUIDE SYSTEMS;

BIOSENSORS; CLADDING (COATING); DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIGHT REFRACTION; LIQUIDS; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 71049119057     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2009.2030287     Document Type: Article

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