Yunbo Guo

Ph.D. candidate
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (2005-present)

Project: Development and biomedical application of a novel label-free photonic crystal sensor
Advisor: Theodore Norris


About Yunbo: Yunbo got his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (2002) and M.S. in Optical Engineering (2005) both from Tsinghua University. His M.S. research was focused on optimization of holographic data storage and correlation recognition system, and he was honored as "Scientific and Technological Achievement Completer" by China Ministry of Education in 2004.

Currently he is developing a novel optical biosensors for biomolecular binding analysis, which has achieved significantly higher sensitivity than the state-of-the-art surface plasmon resonance based instrument, and will allow people to perform binding studies that are currently out of reach of those systems already on the market. His work was turned into a patent and is being commercialized.


Recent publications:

Y. Guo, J. Y. Ye, C. Divin, T. P. Thomas, A. Myc, T. B. Begey, J. R. Baker, Jr. and T. B. Norris, "Label-free biosensing using a photonic crystal structure in a total-internal-reflection geometry," 2009, Proc. of SPIE 7188, 71880B

DOI Link:     http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.808369