Single beam grating coupled interferometry: High resolution miniaturized label-free sensor for plate based parallel screening

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 23162-23173

  Patko, Daniel ^a,b   Cottier, Kaspar ^c   Hamori, Andras ^a   Horvath, Robert ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNICAL PHYSICS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

^c Creoptix AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIQUID CRYSTALS; SENSORS;

DEVICE CHARACTERISTICS; HIGH QUALITY; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTERFERENCE SIGNAL; LABEL-FREE SENSORS; LIQUID CRYSTAL MODULATORS; PARALLEL SCREENING; PHASE MODULATED; POLARIZED MODES; SENSING CHANNELS; SENSOR CHIPS; SENSOR DESIGNS; SINGLE BEAM; SYMMETRICAL ARRANGEMENT;

INTERFEROMETRY;

ARTICLE; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; ILLUMINATION; INTERFEROMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; TRANSDUCER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHTING; MINIATURIZATION; REFRACTOMETRY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84867325706     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.023162     Document Type: Article

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