Title :
Characterization of Swelling of A Polymeric Coating for DNA Microarray Applications Using Spectral Self-Interference Fluorescence Microscopy
Author :
Ayca Yalcin;Francesco Damin;I. Emre Ozkumur;Gabriele di Carlo;Bennett B Goldberg;Marcella Chiari;M. Selim Unlu
Author_Institution :
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University
Abstract :
We have measured the swelling of a copoly(DMA- NAS-MAPS) coating that is adsorbed on a silicon dioxide substrate using the self-interference spectra from spots of fluorescently tagged DNA strands covalently bound to the coating.
Keywords :
"Polymer films","Coatings","DNA","Fluorescence","Microscopy","Surface treatment","Silicon compounds","Surface cleaning","Probes","Chemistry"
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2007. LEOS 2007. The 20th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0924-2
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2007.4382356