• DocumentCode
    688795
  • Title

    High sensitivity biosensing based on symmetric coupled cavity structure of photonic crystal microcavities

  • Author

    Cheng-Chih Hsieh ; Chakravarty, Sumit ; Yi Zou ; Liang Zhu ; Chen, Ray T.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    9-14 June 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate that coupled cavity-waveguide architectures can lead to enhanced experimentally measured detection limit of 300 fM (20pg/ml) for sensing the binding of avidin to biotin in photonic crystal micro-cavity based biosensor.
  • Keywords
    biosensors; micro-optics; microcavities; microsensors; molecular biophysics; optical sensors; optical waveguides; photonic crystals; proteins; avidin-biotin binding; biosensor; coupled cavity-waveguide architectures; enhanced experimentally measured detection limit; high sensitivity biosensing; photonic crystal microcavities; symmetric coupled cavity structure; Biosensors; Cavity resonators; Microcavities; Optical waveguides; Photonic crystals; Probes; Sensitivity;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6833170