Toward automatic label-free whispering gallery modes biodetection with a quantum dot-coated microsphere population

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 524-532

  Charlebois, M ^a   Paquet, A ^a   Verret, L S ^a   Boissinot, K ^b   Boissinot, M ^b   Bergeron, M G ^b   Allen, C Nì ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biodetection; Microspheres; Morphology dependant resonances; Optical resonances; Refractometers; Sensors; Whispering gallery modes

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMIC ANALYSIS; ANALYTES; APRIORI; BACTERIAL SPORE; BIODETECTION; BIOSENSING; CDSE/ZNS QUANTUM DOTS; DEPENDANT RESONANCE; EVANESCENT LIGHT; FIXED SURFACES; FREELY MOVING; LABEL FREE; MICROBEADS; OPTICAL RESONANCE; POLYSTYRENE MICRO-SPHERE; QUANTUM DOT; RELATIVE SHIFT; SENSOR POSITION; SPECTRAL RANGE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WATER YIELD; WHISPERING GALLERY MODES; WIDE SPECTRUM;

FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT REFRACTION; MORPHOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; ORGANIC POLYMERS; POLYSTYRENES; QUANTUM OPTICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; RESONANCE; RESONATORS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

MICROSPHERES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77950516106     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11671-010-9541-1     Document Type: Article

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