Liquid-Phase Shear Horizontal Surface Acoustic Wave Immunosensor

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In this paper, we describe liquid-phase immunosensors based on shear horizontal surface acoustic waves (SH-SAWs), which can be directly dipped into a liquid. The sensor devices are fabricated using an SH-SAW delay line on quartz and LiTaO3 substrates, which is composed of a transmitting floating electrode unidirectional transducer (FEUDT), receiving FEUDT, and a biochemical reaction area between them. These FEUDTs are protected from liquids by a glass lid and epoxy walls, which are constructed using a photolithography technique. Therefore, the sensor devices can be directly dipped into a liquid and a liquid can be directly applied onto the surface of the sensor devices. In order to evaluate basic characteristics of the sensor devices, glycerol–water mixture liquids of different viscosities were used. For evaluations of their applicability to immunoassay, human serum albumin antigen–antibody reactions were investigated.
2010-07-25