Porous silicon waveguide with integrated grating coupler for DNA sensing

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    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 languageEnglish
    Article number71670C
    JournalProgress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE
    Volume7167
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 2009
    EventFrontiers in Pathogen Detection: From Nanosensors to Systems - San Jose, CA, United States
    Duration: Jan 24 2009Jan 26 2009

    Keywords

    • DNA
    • Grating
    • Porous silicon
    • Waveguide

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