Title :
Ultrasensitive plasmonic fano sensor enables seeing protein monolayers with naked eye
Author :
Yanik, Ahmet Ali ; Cetin, Arif E. ; Huang, Min ; Artar, Alp ; Mousavi, S. Hossein ; Khanikaev, Alexander ; Connor, John ; Shvets, Gennady ; Altug, Hatice
Author_Institution :
Photonics Center, Boston Univ., Boston, MA, USA
Abstract :
By exploiting plasmonic sub-radiant dark modes, we demonstrate ultrasensitive biosensors with record high figure of merits (FOM~162). We also show direct detection of single monolayers of proteins with naked eye using associated fundamental Fano resonances.
Keywords :
biosensors; nanophotonics; nanosensors; plasmonics; proteins; fundamental Fano resonance; naked eye; plasmonic subradiant dark mode; protein monolayer; single monolayer direct detection; ultrasensitive biosensors; ultrasensitive plasmonic Fano sensor; Biosensors; Couplings; Fabrication; Instruments; Optical sensors; Plasmons; Sensitivity;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (PHO), 2011 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Arlington, VA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8940-4
DOI :
10.1109/PHO.2011.6110608
