TY - JOUR
T1 - Sub-micron resolution surface plasmon resonance imaging enabled by nanohole arrays with surrounding Bragg mirrors for enhanced sensitivity and isolation
AU - Lindquist, Nathan C.
AU - Lesuffleur, Antoine
AU - Im, Hyungsoon
AU - Oh, Sang Hyun
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - We present nanohole arrays in thin gold films as sub-micron resolution surface plasmon resonance (SPR) imaging pixels in a microarray format. With SPR imaging, the resolution is not limited by diffraction, but by the propagation of surface plasmon waves to adjacent sensing areas, or nanohole arrays, causing unwanted interference. For ultimate scalability, several issues need to be addressed, including: (1) as several nanohole arrays are brought close to each other, surface plasmon interference introduces large sources of error; and (2) as the size of the nanohole array is reduced, i.e. fewer holes, detection sensitivity suffers. To address these scalability issues, we surround each biosensing pixel (a 3-by-3 nanohole array) with plasmonic Bragg mirrors, blocking interference between adjacent SPR sensing pixels for high-density packing, while maintaining the sensitivity of a 50× larger footprint pixel (a 16-by-16 nanohole array). We measure real-time, label-free streptavidin-biotin binding kinetics with a microarray of 600 sub-micron biosensing pixels at a packing density of more than 107 per cm 2.
AB - We present nanohole arrays in thin gold films as sub-micron resolution surface plasmon resonance (SPR) imaging pixels in a microarray format. With SPR imaging, the resolution is not limited by diffraction, but by the propagation of surface plasmon waves to adjacent sensing areas, or nanohole arrays, causing unwanted interference. For ultimate scalability, several issues need to be addressed, including: (1) as several nanohole arrays are brought close to each other, surface plasmon interference introduces large sources of error; and (2) as the size of the nanohole array is reduced, i.e. fewer holes, detection sensitivity suffers. To address these scalability issues, we surround each biosensing pixel (a 3-by-3 nanohole array) with plasmonic Bragg mirrors, blocking interference between adjacent SPR sensing pixels for high-density packing, while maintaining the sensitivity of a 50× larger footprint pixel (a 16-by-16 nanohole array). We measure real-time, label-free streptavidin-biotin binding kinetics with a microarray of 600 sub-micron biosensing pixels at a packing density of more than 107 per cm 2.
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U2 - 10.1039/b816735d
DO - 10.1039/b816735d
M3 - Article
C2 - 19156286
AN - SCOPUS:58649093268
SN - 1473-0197
VL - 9
SP - 382
EP - 387
JO - Lab on a chip
JF - Lab on a chip
IS - 3
ER -