Label-free optical biosensing using a horizontal air-slot SiNx microdisk resonator

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 20638-20644

  Lee, Shinyoung ^a   Eom, Seok Chan ^a   Chang, Jee Soo ^a   Huh, Chul ^b   Sung, Gun Yong ^b   Shin, Jung H ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RESONANCE; SILICON NITRIDE;

DETECTION LIMITS; FDTD SIMULATIONS; FUNCTIONALIZED; LABEL FREE; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MICRODISK RESONATORS; OPTICAL BIO-SENSING; RESONANCE SHIFT; STREPTAVIDIN; STRONG CONFINEMENT; SURFACE SENSITIVITY;

RESONATORS;

BIOTIN; SILICON DERIVATIVE; SILICON NITRIDE; STREPTAVIDIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GENETIC PROCEDURES; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICS; PH; REFRACTOMETRY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAINING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; BIOTIN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SILICON COMPOUNDS; STAINING AND LABELING; STREPTAVIDIN;

EID: 77957979454     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.020638     Document Type: Article

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