Event Details
Integrated Plasmonic Platforms for Sensitive and Selective Biosensing Applications
Presenter: Dr. Ryan Gelfand - Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria
Supervisor: University of Victoria SPIE Student Chapter
Date: Wed, February 5, 2014
Time: 13:30:00 - 00:00:00
Place: EOW 430
ABSTRACT
Abstract:
For biosensing applications a useful device needs at least two properties: high sensitivity and high selectivity. Optical spectroscopy offers unique advantages over other sensing techniques, however one big challenge to overcome is the mismatch between wavelength and the size of biologically relevant molecules. Metallic nanoantennas that convert the incidence radiation into plasmonic modes, which can then be compressed well below the wavelength diffraction limit have been used extensively for biosensing. This talk will discuss new techniques for studying the near field and optical gradient force characteristics of these nanostructures and how this will help us gain insight to better use these plasmonic structures in developing next generation biomedical devices.
Biography:
Ryan M. Gelfand was awarded an National Science Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Biology and has been working with Prof. Reuven Gordon's nanoplasmonics research group here at the University of Victoria since the fall of 2013. He finished his PhD in electrical engineering at Northwestern University with the BISOL group led by Prof. Hooman Mohseni. Before attending Northwestern he graduated with a degree in physics from Carnegie Mellon University and then spent one year as a pharmaceutical chemist at Abbott Laboratories.
For further information, contact:
Maryam Alizadeh, alizadeh@uvic.ca