Water-ice chip with liquid-core waveguide functionality. Toward lab on ice.
A liquid-core waveguide is fabricated with water-ice, which has lower refractive index than most of the solvents, as cladding, and provides a possibility as an ice chip for flow analyses.
Sugiya
Kohei
K
Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan.
Harada
Makoto
M
Okada
Tetsuo
T