A Single-Nanoparticle Transducer and Its Applications

Abstract

A portable, real-time, in-situ detection system with nanometer resolution lays the groundwork to investigate the properties and kinetic behaviors of materials and structures as well as phenomena at nano-scale. It will enable a new class of ultra-sensitive and low-power sensors for bio/chemical warfare defense, environmental monitoring, clinical diagnostics, and pharmaceutical studies. This project will utilize ultra-high-quality whispering-gallery-mode optical resonators to form an ultra-sensitive, real-time, in-situ sensing platform. Various sensing mechanisms will be explored in these optical structures.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 10, 2017
Accession Number
AD1067071

Entities

People

  • Lan Yang

Organizations

  • Washington University in St. Louis

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemical Warfare
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Electron Microscopes
  • Engineering
  • Environmental Monitoring
  • Health
  • Information Operations
  • Information Processing
  • Light Scattering
  • Magnetic Detection
  • Magnetic Resonance
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Microscopes
  • Military Research
  • Nanoparticles
  • Optical Detection
  • Optical Detectors
  • Optical Properties
  • Optomechanics
  • Photonic Devices
  • Physical Theories
  • Physics
  • Public Health
  • Resonators
  • Scanning Electron Microscopes
  • Systems Engineering

Readers

  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
  • Nanoscale Plasmonic Nanotechnology
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.

Technology Areas

  • Biotechnology