Diffraction bar-codes as high capacity optical microtags for chemical and biological applications
Birtwell, S., Galitonov, G.S., Whitton, A., Morgan, H. and Zheludev, N. (2006) Diffraction bar-codes as high capacity optical microtags for chemical and biological applications. In, QEP-17 at Photon06, Manchester, UK, 04 - 07 Sep 2006.
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The rapid advances in high throughput screening, combinatorial chemistry, genomic and proteomic sciences have stimulated dramatic development of new encoding strategies for bead-based assays. Several optical encoding methods are currently used in these applications, including fluorescence, Raman and magnetic tagging on microbeads. Here we describe a new method for encoding small beads which allows for non-contact reading and offer potentially millions of distinguishable tags. The tagging technique is based on fabricating a nano-structured pattern on the surface of the particle, which is only a few microns in size, read by detecting the spatial distribution of laser light diffracted by the tag. In the simplest implementation, the pattern is no more than a miniature diffraction grating, where information is coded in the pitch or spatial dimensions of the grating, read by detecting the angle of the diffracted orders. A huge increase in capacity has been achieved by using a number of superimposed gratings with different pitch and by employing two dimensional gratings. Distinguishing of tens of thousands of tags has been demonstrated on a chromium-on-glass chip library of 50 μm long tags. The technique has also been proved with biologically compatible gratings manufactured on metal nanoparticle doped SU8 photo-polymer.
|Item Type:||Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)|
|Subjects:||Q Science > QC Physics
T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
|Divisions:||University Structure - Pre August 2011 > Optoelectronics Research Centre
|Date Deposited:||11 Aug 2008|
|Last Modified:||24 Sep 2014 15:07|
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