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Superimposed Nanostructured Diffraction Gratings as High Capacity Barcodes for Biological and Chemical Applications

Superimposed Nanostructured Diffraction Gratings as High Capacity Barcodes for Biological and Chemical Applications
Superimposed Nanostructured Diffraction Gratings as High Capacity Barcodes for Biological and Chemical Applications

We describe a new non-contact high capacity optical tagging technique for bead based assays, based on the use of nanostructured barcodes. The tags are generated from a number of superimposed diffraction gratings. With one-dimensional diffraction, capacity for up to 68,000 distinguishable tags has been demonstrated, with a theoretical capacity of up to 109 tags. Extension into two dimensions increases this theoretical limit to 1021 tags.
diffraction gratings, optical barcodes, biological applications, combinatorial chemistry
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Birtwell, S.W.
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Birtwell, S.W., Galitonov, G.S., Morgan, H. and Zheludev, N.I. (2008) Superimposed Nanostructured Diffraction Gratings as High Capacity Barcodes for Biological and Chemical Applications. Optics Communications, 281 (7), 1789-1795. (doi:10.1016/j.optcom.2007.04.066).

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We describe a new non-contact high capacity optical tagging technique for bead based assays, based on the use of nanostructured barcodes. The tags are generated from a number of superimposed diffraction gratings. With one-dimensional diffraction, capacity for up to 68,000 distinguishable tags has been demonstrated, with a theoretical capacity of up to 109 tags. Extension into two dimensions increases this theoretical limit to 1021 tags.

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Published date: April 2008
Keywords: diffraction gratings, optical barcodes, biological applications, combinatorial chemistry
Organisations: Optoelectronics Research Centre
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Local EPrints ID: 266506
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/266506
DOI: doi:10.1016/j.optcom.2007.04.066
ISSN: 0030-4018
PURE UUID: 646cc368-e298-48a2-b753-c67103df1f4e
ORCID for H. Morgan: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4850-5676
ORCID for N.I. Zheludev: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1013-6636

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Date deposited: 04 Aug 2008 03:57
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:18

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Author: S.W. Birtwell
Author: G.S. Galitonov
Author: H. Morgan ORCID iD
Author: N.I. Zheludev ORCID iD

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