The interrogation of surface plasmon resonance using a CD-R

In my bachelor's thesis I investigated the possibility to create a low-cost biosensor configuration, by utilizing the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) excitation on a commercially available CD-R. Spectral interrogation for SPR excitation was used and a spectral dependence of SPR vs. the incident angle was studied. It was shown that SPR resonance can be tuned in the range 580 nm – 720 nm with different excitation efficiency. It was concluded that commercially available, gold-type compact disk
can be used as a low-cost gold-coated diffraction grating structure where SPR
can be excited with good efficiency, since the resonance is deep and narrow.

Supervisors:

prof. Georgi Dyankov prof. Diana Adlienė

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Kaunas University of Technology Lithuania

Faculty of mathematics and natural sciences

Skills acquired

Curriculum

  • Classical physics

  • Mathematics

  • Chemistry

  • Electrodynamics

  • Electronics

  • Nuclear physics

  • etc.

SOFT SKILLS

  • Organization of workshops related to electronics, computer-controlled systems: Researchers' night 2011-2013; Robots Intellect 2011-2013

  • Demonstrations and explanations of various equipment and scientific experiments for school pupils, university students and the general public

EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES

  • Maintenance of the laboratory for electron coincidence spectroscopy

  • Maintenance, repairs of Ultra-High-Vacuum equipment, detection and timing electronics

  • Modifications and making-of data evaluation, experimental procedures

  • Sample analysis using XPS, REELS, TOF Spectroscopy

  • Sample preparation, annealing, sputtering

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Internship

Paisii Hilendarski University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Feb 2013 - May 2013

  • Tuning and maintenance of various optical systems

  • Measurements using fixed phase amplifiers, optical spectrometers

  • Surface plasmon resonance measurements