Title :
Thin film pH-sensitive hydrogel based chemiresponsive surface plasmon resonance device
Author :
Markowski, Jan B. ; Jiang, Hao ; Sabarinathan, Jayshri
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
Abstract :
A pH-sensitive hydrogel of thickness ca. 150 nm was coated on gold nanoparticle based plasmonic crystals fabricated on glass substrates to produce a chemiresponsive sensor that shifts the resonance peak around 20 nm in the near-infrared spectrum.
Keywords :
chemical sensors; hydrogels; surface plasmon resonance; thin films; chemiresponsive sensor; chemiresponsive surface plasmon resonance device; glass substrates; near-infrared spectrum; plasmonic crystals; thin film pH-sensitive hydrogel; Chemical sensors; Crystals; Gold; Nanobioscience; Nanostructures; Optical surface waves; Plasmons; Polymers; Resonance; Thin film devices;
Conference_Titel :
Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics, 2009 IEEE/LEOS International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Clearwater, FL
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2382-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2382-8
DOI :
10.1109/OMEMS.2009.5338573
