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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2017
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (US);
Guiseppe Strangi, Cleveland, OH (US);
Kandammathe Valiyaveedu Sreekanth, Singapore, SG;
Umut Gurkan, Cleveland, OH (US);
Michael Hinczewski, Cleveland, OH (US);
Mohamed Elkabbash, Cleveland, OH (US);
Antonio De Luca, Cleveland, OH (US);
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are optical sensor platform(s) employing hyperbolic metamaterial(s) supporting highly confined bulk plasmon guided modes over broad wavelength range(s) from visible to near-infrared. By exciting these modes using—for example—a two-dimensional (2D) grating-coupling technique, sensors according to the present disclosure advantageously exhibit extreme sensitivity modes up to a maximum of 30,000 nm per refractive index unit and a record figure of merit of 590 thereby permitting detection of ultralow-molecular-weight bio-molecules at picomolar concentrations.