• DocumentCode
    1568836
  • Title

    Design and development of enhanced extraction biosensors based on photonic crystal slabs

  • Author

    Ganesh, Nikhil ; Block, Ian D. ; Mathias, Patrick C. ; Zhang, Wei ; Chow, Edmond ; Cunningham, Brian T.

  • Author_Institution
    Micro & Nanotechnol. Lab., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
  • fYear
    2008
  • Firstpage
    173
  • Lastpage
    174
  • Abstract
    Enhanced extraction of molecular fluorescence as provided by photonic crystal slabs is studied. An enhanced extraction biosensor capable of boosting fluorescence output in the detection of the cytokine TNF-alpha by over 20x is demonstrated.
  • Keywords
    biosensors; fluorescence; molecular biophysics; optical design techniques; photonic crystals; proteins; biosensors; cytokine TNF-alpha; enhanced extraction; molecular fluorescence; photonic crystal slabs; Biological information theory; Biosensors; Fluorescence; Goniometers; Lattices; Optical coupling; Optical microscopy; Photonic crystals; Slabs; Surface waves; 230.5750; 300.2530;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2008. LEOS 2008. 21st Annual Meeting of the
  • Conference_Location
    Acapulco
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1931-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1932-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/LEOS.2008.4688544
  • Filename
    4688544