Undergrad Student Grace Cordes heads off to the annual Advanced Photonics for Communications, OSA conference here in San Diego to present a posterboard presentation on her current research titled: “Ultra-sensitive Noninvasive Nanoparticle Detection Using Silicon Microcavities.” This year the conference is being held at the San Diego Hilton and Spa from July 13th-16th. Grace Cordes works with SDSU’s Department of Physics newest faculty Dr. Lyuba Kuznetsova in the field of optics. See below for her abstract:
Abstract:
This work presents a silicon microcavity based, size-sensitive technique, for detecting the same type of biological nanoparticles. Numerical simulations show significant dependence of the spectral shift on the size of the particle (radius: 30-175nm).