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Title: Zero-mode clad waveguides for performing spectroscopy with confined effective observation volumes

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
OSTI Identifier:
1175425
Patent Number(s):
6917726
Application Number:
10/259,268
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
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2002 Sep 27
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
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Citation Formats

Levene, Michael J., Korlach, Jonas, Turner, Stephen W., Craighead, Harold G., and Webb, Watt W. Zero-mode clad waveguides for performing spectroscopy with confined effective observation volumes. United States: N. p., 2005. Web.
Levene, Michael J., Korlach, Jonas, Turner, Stephen W., Craighead, Harold G., & Webb, Watt W. Zero-mode clad waveguides for performing spectroscopy with confined effective observation volumes. United States.
Levene, Michael J., Korlach, Jonas, Turner, Stephen W., Craighead, Harold G., and Webb, Watt W. Tue . "Zero-mode clad waveguides for performing spectroscopy with confined effective observation volumes". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1175425.
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