Biosensing and surface characterization using a Cavity-Ring-Down Ellipsometer

Project Information

BIOCARDE

Grant agreement ID: 297506

Project closed

Start date 1 July 2012

End date 31 December 2013

Funded under

• Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Total cost € 192 436,92

EU contribution € 150 000,00

Coordinated by

IDRYMA TECHNOLOGIAS KAI EREVNAS
Greece

Objective

We propose to construct a pre-commercial microsecond-resolved, spectrally broadband, ellipsometer, based on our recently-developed, ERC-funded technique of cavity-ring-down ellipsometry (CRDE), for which we have a US and international (PCT) patents pending.
This BIOCARDE instrument will have unprecedented time resolution and sensitivity, compared to commercial ellipsometers, and will have potential application in the biosensing and surface characterization (semiconductor) industries.
The BIOCARDE instrument will be tested by the Biosensors group at FORTH (Prof. Gizeli), and by our industrial partners SOPRALAB in Paris (world-leading ellipsometry company).
Interest in the instrument will be from three directions:
1) Research groups in the biosensing and surface characterization fields. Instruments will be sold to these groups, which will increase the profile and research scope of CRDE.
2) SOPRALAB, is interested in the enabling technologies of the instrument (the combination of the broad-band laser and microsecond-resolved data acquisition)
3) Biosensing companies, as the BIOCARDE instrument will be made to be compatible with (and tested with) their commercial prisms and biosensing delivery systems, to prove that the new capabilities (microsecond ellipsometric detection) is compatible with their existing technologies.

Fields of science

• engineering and technology › electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering › electronic engineering › sensors › biosensors
• engineering and technology › environmental biotechnology › biosensing
• natural sciences › physical sciences › electromagnetism and electronics › semiconductivity
• natural sciences › physical sciences › optics › laser physics

Programme(s)

• FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Topic(s)

• ERC-OA-2011-PoC - European Research Council ERC Proof of Concept

Call for proposal

ERC-2011-PoC
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Funding Scheme

CSA-SA(POC) - Supporting action (Proof of Concept)

Host institution

IDRYMA TECHNOLOGIAS KAI EREVNAS

• EU contribution: € 150 000,00
• Address: N PLASTIRA STR 100 ; 70013 Irakleio ; Greece
• Region: Νησιά Αιγαίου › Κρήτη › Ηράκλειο
• Activity type: Research Organisations
• Administrative Contact: Zinovia Papatheodorou (Ms.)
• Total cost: No data

Beneficiaries (1)

IDRYMA TECHNOLOGIAS KAI EREVNAS

Greece

• EU contribution: € 150 000,00
• Address: N PLASTIRA STR 100 ; 70013 Irakleio
• Region: Νησιά Αιγαίου › Κρήτη › Ηράκλειο
• Activity type: Research Organisations
• Administrative Contact: Zinovia Papatheodorou (Ms.)
• Total cost: No data