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SUMMARY:A research platform for Acoustic Wave Sensors - Prof. Antonio Arna
 u Vives\, Polytechnic University of Valencia and Advanced Wave Sensors 
DTSTART:20140217T140000Z
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CONTACT:Jerome Charmet
DESCRIPTION:Increasing limit of detection is a key aspect for Acoustic Wav
 e Sensors\, a competitive technology for biosensing applications. Differen
 t aspects should be taken into account to reach this goal. High frequency 
 resonators in combination with an appropriate platform which allows a care
 ful control of different aspects involved in a biosensor experiment will p
 ermit to increase the limit of detection by reducing the noise and taking 
 advantage of the increasing sensitivity of the sensor. In this presentatio
 n recent results on a biosensor application using different acoustic techn
 ologies are presented and compared with other techniques like SPR and ELIS
 A. A research platform was developed with the purpose of comparing the dif
 ferent acoustic technologies under the same conditions. Classical QCM\, HF
 FQCM and Love Wave acoustic resonators were compared and results have show
 n that high resolution QCM techniques can compete with those established t
 echniques. The presentation shows the efforts made in the last 15 years by
  the group coordinated by Prof. Antonio Arnau Vives from the Polytechnic U
 niversity of Valencia and his recent spin-off company Advanced Wave Sensor
 s (AWSensors).\n\nEveryone is welcome
LOCATION:Kapitza Building Seminar Room 16\, Cavendish Laboratory\, Departm
 ent of Physics
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