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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2016
Penn State Research Foundation, University Park, PA (US);
Keith Mickolajczyk, University Park, PA (US);
Yixin Yan, University Park, PA (US);
Yiyang Gong, University Park, PA (US);
Haoyu Li, University Park, PA (US);
Noel Christopher Giebink, University Park, PA (US);
Thomas Jackson, University Park, PA (US);
William Hancock, University Park, PA (US);
The Penn State Research Foundation, University Park, PA (US);
Abstract
Evanescently-coupled planar waveguides for enhancing total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy are disclosed. The waveguides include multiple thin layers of one or more materials on a cover slip arranged resonantly enhance the optical field at the surface of the layer stack by evanescently coupling to a leaky guided mode.