Publications by Raphaël Barbey

Measurement device or biochip including an optical microcavity

Nicolas Maxime André Descharmes, Raphaël Barbey

The present invention concerns a measurement device including at least one fluidic channel for providing at least one specimen in at least one liquid to at least an optical measurement region of the measurement device; and at least one optical structure co ...

2022

Centimeter-Scale Propagation of Optical Surface Waves at Visible Wavelengths

Hans Peter Herzig, Nicolas Maxime André Descharmes, Gaël David Osowiecki, Babak Vosoughi Lahijani, Raphaël Barbey

Guiding and confining light at interfaces is crucial for applications involving light-matter interactions, such as surface spectroscopy, nonlinear optics, and quantum information technology. While dielectric surface waves offer promising perspectives for s ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022

Surface-based luminescence measurement substrate

Nicolas Maxime André Descharmes, Raphaël Barbey

Surface-based measurement substrate including: • - at least one optical cavity layer (7); • - a first optical mirror (9) and a second optical mirror (11), the first and second optical mirrors enclosing the optical cavity layer and defining an optical cavit ...

2020

High Quality Factor Confinement Of Bloch Surface Waves At Visible Wavelengths

Hans Peter Herzig, Nicolas Maxime André Descharmes, Gaël David Osowiecki, Babak Vosoughi Lahijani, Raphaël Barbey

We report the first experimental demonstration of high quality factor confinement of Bloch surface waves at visible wavelengths. The cavities consist of planar Fabry-Perot resonators that are fabricated on top of a Bloch surface supporting substrate. This ...

IEEE2018

Postpolymerization Modification of Poly(glycidyl methacrylate) Brushes: An XPS Depth-Profiling Study

Harm-Anton Klok, Vincent Laporte, Raphaël Barbey

Surface-initiated polymerization represents a versatile strategy to modify a diverse range of materials with thin, functional polymer coatings. While in many cases the desired functional groups can be directly incorporated via (co)polymerization of the app ...

American Chemical Society2013

Diagnostic and Sensory Polymer Brushes

Harm-Anton Klok, Raphaël Barbey

2011

Room Temperature, Aqueous Post-Polymerization Modification of Glycidyl Methacrylate-Containing Polymer Brushes Prepared via Surface-Initiated Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization

Harm-Anton Klok, Raphaël Barbey

This manuscript reports on the post-polymerization modification of poly(glycidyl methacrylate) (PGMA) and PGMA-co-poly(2-(diethylamino)ethyl methacrylate) (PGMA(x)-co-PDEAEMA(y)) (co)polymer brushes prepared via surface-initiated atom transfer radical poly ...

2010

Protein Microarrays Based on Polymer Brushes Prepared via Surface-Initiated Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization

Harm-Anton Klok, Raphaël Barbey, Markus Ehrat

Polymer brushes represent an interesting platform for the development of high-capacity protein binding surfaces. Whereas the protein binding properties of polymer brushes have been investigated before, this manuscript evaluates the feasibility of poly(glyc ...

American Chemical Society2010

Polymer Brushes as Substrates for Microarray Applications

Raphaël Barbey

The development of innovative bioanalytical technologies that enable the discovery of new therapeutics or the creation of systems for rapid, accurate and parallel analyses has gained an extraordinary interest in the biomedical sector in the last 10-15 year ...

EPFL2010

Nonfouling Polypeptide Brushes via Surface-initiated Polymerization of N-epsilon-oligo(ethylene glycol)succinate-L-lysine N-carboxyanhydride

Harm-Anton Klok, Raphaël Barbey, Jian Wang, Matthew Gibson

This contribution describes the preparation of nonfouling polypeptide brushes via surface-initiated ring-opening polymerization of oligo(ethylene glycol) modified L-lysine N-carboxyanhydrides. Circular dichroism experiments indicated that these surface-anc ...

2009