Research

Dr. Reuven Gordon and his group discover a new, inexpensive way to detect cancer. A new generation of sensors based on nano plasmonics are coming out soon.

Regie Sobral-Filho, a PhD student who works in Dr. Alex Brolo’s lab, is collaborating with scientists at the BC Cancer Agency to develop biologically adaptive radiotherapy.

Optical trapping specimen preparation: Abhay Kotnala (PhD student) is pictured preparing a specimen for optical trapping using the double nanohole on a 100 nm gold thin film.

Steven Jones working on the optical trapping set-up. A laser tweezer system is used to study individual dielectric nanoparticles (~20nm, TiO2/Polystyrene) and identify them using SERS.

We explore novel technologies and work closely with many medical and industrial research & development centres in the field of biomaterial, nano photonics, and medical sensing applications for the development of novel biomedical devices. The current themes of research under investigation are:

Biological and chemical sensors

Biolabeling
Lab-on-chip
Integrated microfluidics devices

Fiber optics and waveguides

Nano structured remote fiber optic chemical sensing

Nano optical materials: fabrication and application

Quantum dots, metallic, transition metal and lanthanide nano particles
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), biolabeling, quantum computing, light emitting diodes (LEDs) applications

Visit Dr. Brolo's, Dr. Frank's Dr. Gordon's and Dr. van Veggel's websites

Radiotherapy and personalized medicine

Biolabeling nano material research application in radiotherapy
Breast cancer research

Raman spectroscopy and SERS

There are a few projects involved in Raman spectroscopy research and biomedical applications. Such applications include, but are not limited to:

Single molecule surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy
Chemometrics

Visit Dr. Brolo's and Dr. Gordon's websites.

Optical trapping

There are a few projects involves in sigle molecule detection and optical trapping research applications. Such research applications include, but are not limited to:

Single molecule detection
Optical trapping