학술논문

A fluorescent sensor with a separation mechanism for exciting light
Document Type
Conference
Source
2012 IEEE Sensors Sensors, 2012 IEEE. :1-4 Oct, 2012
Subject
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Signal Processing and Analysis
Fluorescence
Photodiodes
Oscillators
Current measurement
Silicon
Partial discharges
Dark current
Language
ISSN
1930-0395
Abstract
In this paper, a fluorescent sensor for fluorescence immunoassay is presented. The assembled structure separates the path of emitted fluorescence from that of exciting light, hence the fluorescence is shined upon an N-Well/P-sub silicon photodiode and the exciting light is directed away from the photodiode. The N-Well/P-sub silicon photodiode has a metal mesh pattern which can suppress the incidence of long-wavelength light, such as infra-red light, into the photodiode and reduce dark current resulting from environmental long-wavelength light. The dark current is about 10pA. In this work, a read-out circuit of current-controlled oscillator using photo-current to control its oscillation frequency was designed to measure the fluorescent intensity. In the circuit, the output oscillation frequency is a linear function of fluorescent intensity. The experiment results show that the green fluorescent intensity can be measured with a good linearity of 99.2%.