• DocumentCode
    2300408
  • Title

    A highly optimized plasmon waveguide resonance biosensor

  • Author

    Bahrami, F. ; Aitchison, J.S. ; Mojahedi, M.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    23-27 Sept. 2012
  • Firstpage
    208
  • Lastpage
    209
  • Abstract
    A plasmon waveguide resonance biosensor is designed and optimized for bulk index sensing using a genetic algorithm. The optimized biosensor has a large combined sensitivity factor (4116 RIU-1) and penetration depth (7.2μm) for TM polarization.
  • Keywords
    biosensors; genetic algorithms; plasmonics; sensitivity; waveguides; TM polarization; bulk index sensing; depth 7.2 mum; genetic algorithm; highly optimized plasmon waveguide resonance biosensor; penetration depth; sensitivity factor; Biosensors; Fluids; Genetic algorithms; Plasmons; Sensitivity; Surface waves; Biosensor; Bulk sensitivity; Genetic algorithm; Plasmon waveguide resonance;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics Conference (IPC), 2012 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Burlingame, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0731-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IPCon.2012.6358564
  • Filename
    6358564