Title :
Directed Self-Assembly of Polystyrene Spheres for Biophotonics and Surface Plasmon Based Sensors
Author :
McGlade, John E. ; Muth, John F.
Author_Institution :
North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh
Abstract :
The self assembly of sub-micron scale spheres is useful to produce arrays of nanostructures by shadow masking materials depositions. A method to produce arrays of 5 to 20 m length scale patterns of nanostructures is presented.
Keywords :
bio-optics; masks; nanostructured materials; nonelectric sensing devices; polymers; self-assembly; biophotonics; directed self-assembly; masking materials depositions; nanostructures; polystyrene spheres; sub-micron scale spheres; surface plasmon based sensors; Biophotonics; Biosensors; Crystals; Gold; Lithography; Nanobioscience; Nanoparticles; Plasmons; Self-assembly; Sensor arrays;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2007. LEOS 2007. The 20th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Lake Buena Vista, FL
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0925-9
Electronic_ISBN :
1092-8081
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2007.4382395
