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Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2013

Filed:

Oct. 28, 2010
Applicants:

Michael Josef Stuke, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Shih-yuan Wang, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Zhiyong LI, Redwood City, CA (US);

Inventors:

Michael Josef Stuke, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Shih-Yuan Wang, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Zhiyong Li, Redwood City, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J 3/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A sensing device that produces a Raman signal includes micro-rods or nano-rods arranged on a substrate in a two-dimensional (2D) array, each of the rods having a length in a single row being substantially the same, with the rod length of each row being different from the rod length of each other row. Each row of rods has a respective resonant vibration frequency that varies from row to row. A source of vibration energy, operatively connected to the substrate, excites vibration in each of the rods such that a responding row resonates when an exciting frequency approaches the resonant vibration frequency of the responding row. A method includes exposing the 2D array to a light source and analyzing Raman scattering at each rod of the 2D array to render a Raman map.


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