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Outline. Background & Motivation Fabrication of Porous Silicon structures Etching pores in silicon Optical properties of porous silicon – changing refractive index Forming the resonant cavity structure Porous Silicon as a sensor Applications to biomolecule sensing

danielle-garcia
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  1. Outline • Background & Motivation • Fabrication of Porous Silicon structures • Etching pores in silicon • Optical properties of porous silicon – changing refractive index • Forming the resonant cavity structure • Porous Silicon as a sensor • Applications to biomolecule sensing • Avidin & biotin interaction • Tir-IBD & Intimin-ECD interaction

  2. Porous silicon There are different kinds of pores are present depending on their sizes; pores used for in this work ~ 100nm in diameter

  3. Porous silicon fabrication Many variables: electrolyte (HF) concentration, current density, silicon doping type & density, temperature

  4. Changing refractive index of Si Bruggeman effective medium approximation: Material in the pores changes the spectral response (Percentage of the void space in the material)

  5. Alternating the current amplitude during etching:

  6. Bragg structure: Alternating porosities = complex optical structures Form Bragg mirrors: periodic stack of layers with two different porosities Higher the porosity contrast, higher the reflection, higher the quality factor (Q) of the cavity. But the pores should be big enough so that materials can go through!!

  7. Pores should be small enough that the sensitivity doesn’t drop

  8. Using the pores for sensing

  9. Experiment1: Testing the flow in the pores 60nm latex spheres can penetrate into the pores that are 100-120nm

  10. Experiment 2 : Avidin & biotin interaction • The structure first oxidized  blue shift due to conversion of Si to SiO2 • APTES silanized  red shift • Sulfo-NHS-LC-LC-Biotin probe molecule in PBS was immobilized  red shift • no shift occurred with buffer that has no biotin • Streptavidin in PBS (1 mg/mL)  red shift • no shift occurred on the sample with no Biotin They calibrate their sensitivity with their simulations; they claim

  11. E. Coli Experiment 3 : Tir-IBD & Intimin-ECD interaction • Surface oxidized • Tir was immobilized in the pores using APTES & Glutaraldehyde coupling chemistry • Sensor surface was blocked with glycine methyl ester against non-specific binding • Washing steps are done with HEPES buffer • After 1h incubation with Intimin, samples were washed with HEPES for 1-2 hours  this is the key to cleaning the nonspecific trapping of molecules in the pores • Experiments done with real cell lysate (supernatants)

  12. For testing selectivity: Lysate of BL21 E.Coli, expressing Intimin Lysate of JM109 E.Coli, NOT expressing Intimin Tir immobilized No Tir

  13. Thanks…

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