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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 07, 2004
Loic Barbedette, Dudley, MA (US);
John Hansson, Brooklyn, CT (US);
Richard Strack, Sturbridge, MA (US);
Kevin Tabor, Webster, MA (US);
Michael Weisser, Sturbridge, MA (US);
Loic Barbedette, Dudley, MA (US);
John Hansson, Brooklyn, CT (US);
Richard Strack, Sturbridge, MA (US);
Kevin Tabor, Webster, MA (US);
Michael Weisser, Sturbridge, MA (US);
Schott Corporation, Elmsford, NY (US);
Abstract
Well plates adaptable for specimen sampling in the biological, chemical and pharmaceutical sciences are fabricated by dissolving fusedly-retained cores from the cladding material of a fused fiber plate to define a capillary plate including first and second faces and a plurality of through-voids into which fluidic samples may be deposited for analysis. Closed-bottom wells are defined by bonding one of the first and second faces to a base plate or by securing into well-sealing positions over the open ends of selected through-voids optical elements, each of which optical elements exhibits a predetermined optical property. Cladding material including reducible ions is exposed to a reduction atmosphere in order to blacken selected regions of a well plate, thereby enhancing sample analysis by reducing such disadvantageous phenomena as autofluorescence.