Photo Scattering Signal Amplification in Gold-Viral Particle Ligation towards Fast Infection Screening

Heng Zhang, Xiao Jin, Hanwen Zhao, Yongping Lin, Xiaofeng Li, Lianping Hou, John Marsh, Lei Dong, Daming Shi, Weiping Liu, Bin Xu, Bin Ni, Juan Liu*, Jichuan Xiong*, Xuefeng Liu*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The polarization states of scattered photons can be used to map or image the anisotropic features of a nanostructure. However, the scattering strength depends heavily on the refractivity contrast in the near field under measurement, which limits the imaging sensitivity for viral particles which have little refractivity contrast with their nano-ambientes. In this paper, we show the photon scattering signal strength can be magnified by introducing a more abrupt change of refractivity at the virus particle using antibody-conjugated gold nanoparticles (AuNPs), allowing the presence of such viruses to be detected. Using two different deep learning methods to minimize scattering noise, the photon states scattering signal of a AuNPs ligated virus is enhanced significantly compared to that of a bare virus particle. This is confirmed by Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) numerical simulations. The sensitivity of the polarization state scattering spectra from a virus-gold particle doublet is 5.4 times higher than that of a conventional microscope image.

Original languageEnglish
Article number9409619
JournalIEEE Photonics Journal
Volume13
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2021

Keywords

  • Polarization state
  • gold nanoparticles
  • signal amplification
  • virus

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