Publications

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We present terahertz metamaterials fabricated on large-area, free-standing thin (≤1 μm) silicon nitride membranes with the aim of reducing dielectric losses, enhancing metamaterial sensing capabilities, and enabling flexible and conformable designs. © 2008 Optical Society of America.

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We will present our recent progress on 1) waveguide-based sensor arrays that can operate as high density immunoassay sensors for detection of proteins and other biomolecules in solution, 2) metamaterial and plasmonic-based chem-bio sensors. © 2008 Optical Society of America.

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Flow cytometry is an indispensable tool in clinical diagnostics, for example in cancer, AIDS, infectious disease outbreaks, microbiology, and others. The cost and size of existing cytometers precludes their entry into field clinics, water monitoring, agriculture/veterinary diagnostics, and rapidly deployable biothreat detection. Much of the cost and footprint of conventional cytometers is dictated by the high speed achieved by cells or beads in a hydrodynamically focused stream. This constraint is removed by using ultrasonic focusing in a parallel microfluidic architecture. In this paper, we describe our progress towards a microfabricated flow cytometer that uses bulk and microfabricated planar piezoelectric transducers in glass microfluidic channels. In addition to experimental data, initial modeling data to predict the performance of our transducers are discussed.

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LDRD Project 86361 provided support to upgrade the chemical and material spectral signature measurement and detection capabilities of Sandia National Laboratories using the terahertz (THz) portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, which includes frequencies between 0.1 to 10 THz. Under this project, a THz time-domain spectrometer was completed. This instrument measures sample absorption spectra coherently, obtaining both magnitude and phase of the absorption signal, and has shown an operating signal-to-noise ratio of 10{sub 4}. Additionally, various gas cells and a reflectometer were added to an existing high-resolution THz Fourier transform spectrometer, which greatly extend the functionality of this spectrometer. Finally, preliminary efforts to design an integrated THz transceiver based on a quantum cascade laser were begun.