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Title: Zero-mode waveguides

Abstract

The present invention is directed to a method and an apparatus for analysis of an analyte. The method involves providing a zero-mode waveguide which includes a cladding surrounding a core where the cladding is configured to preclude propagation of electromagnetic energy of a frequency less than a cutoff frequency longitudinally through the core of the zero-mode waveguide. The analyte is positioned in the core of the zero-mode waveguide and is then subjected, in the core of the zero-mode waveguide, to activating electromagnetic radiation of a frequency less than the cut-off frequency under conditions effective to permit analysis of the analyte in an effective observation volume which is more compact than if the analysis were carried out in the absence of the zero-mode waveguide.

Inventors:
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Issue Date:
Research Org.:
Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE; National Science Foundation (NSF); National Institutes of Health (NIH)
OSTI Identifier:
1176124
Patent Number(s):
7181122
Application Number:
11/313,971
Assignee:
Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, NY)
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
B - PERFORMING OPERATIONS B82 - NANOTECHNOLOGY B82Y - SPECIFIC USES OR APPLICATIONS OF NANOSTRUCTURES
C - CHEMISTRY C12 - BIOCHEMISTRY C12Q - MEASURING OR TESTING PROCESSES INVOLVING ENZYMES, NUCLEIC ACIDS OR MICROORGANISMS
DOE Contract Number:  
066898-0003891; BIR-8800278; P412RR04224-11
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2005 Dec 20
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION; 59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS

Citation Formats

Levene, Michael J., Korlach, Jonas, Turner, Stephen W., Craighead, Harold G., and Webb, Watt W. Zero-mode waveguides. United States: N. p., 2007. Web.
Levene, Michael J., Korlach, Jonas, Turner, Stephen W., Craighead, Harold G., & Webb, Watt W. Zero-mode waveguides. United States.
Levene, Michael J., Korlach, Jonas, Turner, Stephen W., Craighead, Harold G., and Webb, Watt W. Tue . "Zero-mode waveguides". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1176124.
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