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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2006
Steven Francis Leboeuf, Schenectady, NY (US);
Peter Micah Sandvik, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Radislav Alexandrovich Potyrailo, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Steven Francis LeBoeuf, Schenectady, NY (US);
Peter Micah Sandvik, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Radislav Alexandrovich Potyrailo, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Morpho Detection, Inc., Newark, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus includes an article and a detector. The article includes a substrate, a faceted structure disposed on the substrate, and a sensor layer disposed on the faceted structure. The faceted structure is disposed on the substrate first surface and itself has a surface. The faceted structure surface has peripheral edge defining a diameter of the faceted structure surface. The sensor layer is disposed on the faceted structure surface. The sensor layer can react or can interact with a target species when the target species is sufficiently proximate to the sensor layer. The sensor layer responds to the reaction or to the interaction in a detectable manner. The detector detects a response to the reaction, or to the interaction, of the target species with the sensor layer.