Sensitive biodetection in flow using metasurface hosting quasi-bound state in the continuum resonances
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| author | Walden, Sarah L. Fedotova, Anna Pidgayko, Dmitry Tanaka, Katsuya Zou, Chengjun Pertsch, Thomas Staude, Isabelle |
| author_facet | Walden, Sarah L. Fedotova, Anna Pidgayko, Dmitry Tanaka, Katsuya Zou, Chengjun Pertsch, Thomas Staude, Isabelle |
| contents | We have designed optical metasurfaces hosting high-quality factor quasi-bound state in the continuum (q-BIC) resonances for optical biosensing in flow. The unit cell of the metasurface contains two rectangular bars. An asymmetry factor is introduced by varying the gap width between the bars, to enable optical coupling to a q-BIC resonance confined to the air gap between neighboring nanoresonators. The location of the resonances makes them highly sensitive to changes in the local refractive index, leading to experimental bulk refractive index sensitivities exceeding 315 +/- 22 nm/RIU and a figure-of-merit of 66 +/- 5 RIU-1. Successful streptavidin-biotin binding was observed by measuring the metasurface transmission in real-time by exposing the metasurface to various concentrations of analytes via a commercial microfluidic flow cell apparatus. The experimental limit of detection, defined as 3σ above noise, was found to be 1.8x10-8 M. This platform represents a compact optical approach for point-of-care diagnostics with fast read-out. |
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| spellingShingle | Sensitive biodetection in flow using metasurface hosting quasi-bound state in the continuum resonances Walden, Sarah L. Fedotova, Anna Pidgayko, Dmitry Tanaka, Katsuya Zou, Chengjun Pertsch, Thomas Staude, Isabelle Optics We have designed optical metasurfaces hosting high-quality factor quasi-bound state in the continuum (q-BIC) resonances for optical biosensing in flow. The unit cell of the metasurface contains two rectangular bars. An asymmetry factor is introduced by varying the gap width between the bars, to enable optical coupling to a q-BIC resonance confined to the air gap between neighboring nanoresonators. The location of the resonances makes them highly sensitive to changes in the local refractive index, leading to experimental bulk refractive index sensitivities exceeding 315 +/- 22 nm/RIU and a figure-of-merit of 66 +/- 5 RIU-1. Successful streptavidin-biotin binding was observed by measuring the metasurface transmission in real-time by exposing the metasurface to various concentrations of analytes via a commercial microfluidic flow cell apparatus. The experimental limit of detection, defined as 3σ above noise, was found to be 1.8x10-8 M. This platform represents a compact optical approach for point-of-care diagnostics with fast read-out. |
| title | Sensitive biodetection in flow using metasurface hosting quasi-bound state in the continuum resonances |
| topic | Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.11358 |