Emerging Infectious Disease Diagnostic via Novel Optoelectronic Halo Effect

Abstract

Forward deployed military units have a critical need for a robust, low cost, easy to use diagnostic system providing real-time, quantitative, and multiplex capability of identifying biomarkers for infectious disease, including tuberculosis. This is a project to develop a new diagnostic device for detection of a tuberculosis biomarker based on a novel "plasmonic halo" effect. Various halo nanodevices using a set of chosen metals and dielectrics were simulated and fabricated, and their plasmonic optical response / sensitivity characterized. A major new finding is that a modified structure has been investigated and shows promise for response in the near infrared, and the architecture may be amenable to rapid detection of viruses.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2021
Accession Number
AD1144995

Entities

People

  • Michael J. Naughton

Organizations

  • Boston College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemistry
  • Crystal Structure
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Electromagnetic Fields
  • Health Services
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Processing
  • Materials Science
  • Nanotechnology
  • Optical Materials
  • Optics
  • Refractive Index
  • Solar Cells
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional

Readers

  • Infectious Disease/Epidemiology
  • Nanoscale Plasmonic Nanotechnology
  • Oncology and Biomarker-Based Cancer Detection.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics