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10 March 2020 Fingerprinting individual bio-nanoparticles by interferometric photothermal microscopy (Conference Presentation)
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Abstract
Chemical characterization of biological specimens in the mid-infrared (IR) window plays a central role in the analysis of their functionalities. Although recent advances in mid-IR microscopy have demonstrated detection of the sample’s chemical contrast at a sub-micron resolution using a visible probe beam, they have limited sensitivity at high-throughput. To overcome this limit, we employ wide-field interferometric microscopy to detect the minute change in the optical path induced by mid-IR absorption. Our technique enables high-speed fingerprinting of more than thousands of sub-200 nm nanoparticles at once. This method paves the way for high-throughput, ultrasensitive, and label-free chemical imaging of individual bio-nanoparticles at sub-micron resolution.
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Celalettin Yurdakul, Haonan Zong, Yeran Bai, M. Selim Ünlü, and Ji-Xin Cheng "Fingerprinting individual bio-nanoparticles by interferometric photothermal microscopy (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 11252, Advanced Chemical Microscopy for Life Science and Translational Medicine, 112521P (10 March 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2546489
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KEYWORDS
Interferometry

Microscopy

Mid-IR

Nanoparticles

Chemical analysis

Image enhancement

Imaging spectroscopy

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