Title :
Detection of endotoxin using a photonic crystal nanolaser
Author :
Daichi Takahashi;Shoji Hachuda;Takumi Watanabe;Yoshiaki Nishijima;Toshihiko Baba
Author_Institution :
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Yokohama National University 79-5 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya, Yokohama, Japan 240-8501
Abstract :
We demonstrate the sensing of endotoxin using photonic crystal nanolaser and Limulus amebocyte lysate reaction. We detected low concentrations of 0.001 and 0.0001 EU/ml with a twice faster speed of the conventional methods.
Keywords :
"Photonic crystals","Pollution measurement","Glass","Yttrium","Sensitivity","Transducers","Semiconductor device measurement"
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR), 2015 11th Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2015.7375911