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Development of Whispering Gallery Mode Polymeric Micro-optical Electric Field Sensors
Published on: January 29, 2013
Performance of Eudragit coated whispering gallery mode resonator-based immunosensors
Ambra Giannetti1, Simone Berneschi, Francesco Baldini
1Istituto di Fisica Applicata Nello Carrara (IFAC CNR), 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy. a.giannetti@ifac.cnr.it
Abstract:
Whispering gallery mode resonators (WGMR) are an efficient tool for the realization of optical biosensors. A high Q factor preservation is a crucial requirement for good biosensor performances. In this work we present an Eudragit®L100 coated microspherical WGMR as an efficient immunosensor. The developed resonator was morphologically characterized using fluorescence microscopy. The functionalization process was tuned to preserve the high Q factor of the resonator. The protein binding assay was optically characterized in terms of specificity in buffer solution.
