by Keyword: Gratings
Murugan, Divagar, Tintelott, Marcel, Narayanan, Madaboosi S, Vu, Xuan-Thang, Kurkina, Tetiana, Rodriguez-Emmenegger, Cesar, Schwaneberg, Ulrich, Dostalek, Jakub, Ingebrandt, Sven, Pachauri, Vivek, (2024). Recent Advances in Grating Coupled Surface Plasmon Resonance Technology Advanced Optical Materials , 2401862 
Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) is a key technique in developing sensor platforms for clinical diagnostics, drug discovery, food quality, and environmental monitoring applications. While prism-coupled (Kretschmann) SPR remains a "gold-standard" for laboratory work-flows due to easier fabrication, handling and high through put, other configurations such as grating-coupled SPR (GC-SPR) and wave-guide mode SPR are yet to fulfil their technology potential. This work evaluates the technical aspects influencing the performance of GC-SPR and reviews recent progress in the fabrication of such platforms. In principle, the GC-SPR involves the illumination of the plasmonic metal film with periodic gratings to excite the surface plasmons (SP) via diffraction-based phase matching. The real performance of the GC-SPR is, however, heavily influenced by the topography of the grating structures produced via top-down lithography techniques. This review discusses latest in approaches to achieve consistent plasmonic gratings with uniform features and periodicity over a large scale and explores the choice of plasmon-active and substrate material for enhanced performance. The review also provides insights into the different GC-SPR measurement configurations and highlights on opportunities with their potential applications as biosensors with translational capabilities. A review on recent progress in the realization of grating-coupled and wave-guide mode surface plasmon resonance (SPR) platforms which have seen very limited progress toward diagnostics applications in comparison to Kretchmann configured SPR. Sophisticated topography manipulation during large-area nanofabrication, integration of emerging nanomaterials, and machine learning-based data analytics are expected to overcome concurrent challenges toward clinical adoption of grating-coupled SPR in coming years. image
JTD Keywords: Aluminum, Biosensor, Chemical sensor, Compact, Fabrication methods, Gc-spr, Gold, Lase, Lithography, Nanogratings, Performance, Plasmonics, Sensitivity enhancement, Sp, Spr sensor
Parra-Monreal, V, Ortega-Machuca, MA, Ramin-Azcin, J, Svendsen, W, Romano-Rodriguez, A, Moreno-Sereno, M, (2021). Detection of cytokines in skeletal muscle tissue using optical SPR sensing platform Proceedings Of The 2021 13th Spanish Conference On Electron Devices, Cde 2021 , 102-105
In this work we have explored the use of a Surface Plasmon resonance (SPR) phenomenon for the detection of interleukin-6 (IL-6), a pro-inflammatory cytokine. It plays an important role in the muscle tissues, having direct relation with muscle contraction and, thus, it is considered a biomarker for some types of muscular dystrophies. Here we show that SPR can be used as a real-time monitoring of the shift of the reflectance dip of a gold diffraction grating in front to the antibody adhesion to gold.
JTD Keywords: antibodies, gratings, interleukin-6 (il-6), proteins, Antibodies, Gratings, Interleukin-6 (il-6), Proteins, Surface plasmon resonance
Diéguez, Lorena, Caballero, David, Calderer, Josep, Moreno, Mauricio, Martínez, Elena, Samitier, Josep, (2012). Optical gratings coated with thin Si3N4 layer for efficient immunosensing by optical waveguide lightmode spectroscopy 
Biosensors , 2, (2), 114-126
New silicon nitride coated optical gratings were tested by means of Optical Waveguide Lightmode Spectroscopy (OWLS). A thin layer of 10 nm of transparent silicon nitride was deposited on commercial optical gratings by means of sputtering. The quality of the layer was tested by x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and atomic force microscopy. As a proof of concept, the sensors were successfully tested with OWLS by monitoring the concentration dependence on the detection of an antibody-protein pair. The potential of the Si3N4 as functional layer in a real-time biosensor opens new ways for the integration of optical waveguides with microelectronics.
JTD Keywords: Silicon nitride, Optical gratings, Waveguide, Biosensor
