P2.3.10 Fabrication of broad area optical nanostructures for high throughput chemical sensing

Event

14th International Meeting on Chemical Sensors - IMCS 2012
2012-05-20 - 2012-05-23
Nürnberg/Nuremberg, Germany

Chapter

P2.3 Sensors Based on Optical Techniques

Author(s)

P. Rodríguez-Franco, N. Darwish, H. Keshmiri, M. Moreno - Department of Electronics, University of Barcelona (Spain), A. Arriola, T. Tavera, S. Olaizola - Centro de Estudios e Investigación Técnica de Guipúzcoa CEIT IK-4 (Spain)

Pages

1475 - 1478

DOI

10.5162/IMCS2012/P2.3.10

ISBN

978-3-9813484-2-2

Price

free

Abstract

The present document describes the simulation, development and characterization of a custom implementation of optical resonant sensors, with high throughput capabilities while acting as chemical or label-free biosensors. Opti- FDTD 9.0 software has been used with the aim of simulating the diffractive resonant structures of interest. By means of holography, it has been possible to create large active areas of about 1cm^2, which allows a theoretically unlimited number of measurement channels. State of the art bulk sensitivities in the order of 136nm/RIU have been found, in agreement with the results obtained by dint of simulating a model of the fabricated structure.