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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2005
Applicants:
Youssef M. Habib, Lancaster, PA (US);
John Steinbeck, Fitzwilliam, NH (US);
Inventors:
Youssef M. Habib, Lancaster, PA (US);
John Steinbeck, Fitzwilliam, NH (US);
Assignee:
Illuminex Corporation, Lancaster, PA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Freestanding metallic nanowires attached to a metallic substrate are disclosed. A method of creating the nanowire structure using an anodized layer is presented. In one embodiment an optical SERS sensor is formed. The sensor head has at least one array of nanowires chemically functionalized to recognize molecules of interest. A method of forming a SERS sensor and using the sensor to analyze a sample is presented.