Monday, June 11, 2012

Terahertz multichannel microfluidic sensor based on parallel-plate waveguide resonant cavities





Victoria AstleyKimberly S. ReichelJonathan JonesRajind Mendis, and Daniel M. Mittleman
Rice University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, MS 378, Houston, Texas 77251-1892, USA 
We demonstrate a terahertz multichannel microfluidic sensor based on a parallel-plate waveguide geometry with two independent integrated resonant cavities. The resonant frequency of each cavity exhibits an approximately linear dependence on the index of refraction of the material inside the cavity and each cavity is demonstrated to respond independently with no measurable crosstalk. The sensitivities of the two cavities in terms of the change in resonant wavelength per refractive index unit (RIU) are measured to be 1.21 × 106 nm/RIU and 6.77 × 105 nm/RIU.
© 2012 American Institute of Physics

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