Abstract
A porous silicon waveguide with integrated grating coupler is demonstrated as a new platform for portable detection of chemical and biological molecules. The two-layer porous silicon waveguide is formed by electrochemical etching and a photoresist grating is fabricated directly on the waveguide core by means of electron beam lithography. Angle-resolved reflectance measurements reveal distinct peaks corresponding to the guided mode. A 0.420° reflectance shift was observed upon 16-base DNA hybridization, which was more than a factor of 5 larger than the observed reflectance shift after exposure to a mismatched DNA sequence.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 71670C |
| Journal | Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE |
| Volume | 7167 |
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| State | Published - 2009 |
| Event | Frontiers in Pathogen Detection: From Nanosensors to Systems - San Jose, CA, United States Duration: Jan 24 2009 → Jan 26 2009 |
Keywords
- DNA
- Grating
- Porous silicon
- Waveguide