Title
Label-free, single molecule resonant cavity detection: a double-blind experimental study.
Abstract
Optical resonant cavity sensors are gaining increasing interest as a potential diagnostic method for a range of applications, including medical prognostics and environmental monitoring. However, the majority of detection demonstrations to date have involved identifying a known analyte, and the more rigorous double-blind experiment, in which the experimenter must identify unknown solutions, has yet to be performed. This scenario is more representative of a real-world situation. Therefore, before these devices can truly transition, it is necessary to demonstrate this level of robustness. By combining a recently developed surface chemistry with integrated silica optical sensors, we have performed a double-blind experiment to identify four unknown solutions. The four unknown solutions represented a subset or complete set of four known solutions; as such, there were 256 possible combinations. Based on the single molecule detection signal, we correctly identified all solutions. In addition, as part of this work, we developed noise reduction algorithms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.3390/s150306324
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
biosensors,optical resonators,single molecule detection
Noise reduction,Analytical chemistry,Resonant cavity,Prognostics,Molecule,Chemistry,Robustness (computer science),Electronic engineering,Analyte,Biosensor
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
15
3
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
2
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Maria V Chistiakova100.34
Ce Shi200.34
Andrea M Armani311.16