title: Palladium on plastic substrates for plasmonic devices.
abstract: Innovative chips based on palladium thin films deposited on plastic substrates have been tested in the Kretschmann surface plasmon resonance (SPR) configuration. The new chips combine the advantages of a plastic support that is interesting and commercially appealing and the physical properties of palladium, showing inverted surface plasmon resonance (ISPR). The detection of DNA chains has been selected as the target of the experiment, since it can be applied to several medical early diagnostic tools, such as different biomarkers of cancers or cystic fibrosis. The results are encouraging for the use of palladium in SPR-based sensors of interest for both the advancement of biodevices and the development of hydrogen sensors.
authors.affiliation: CNR - IFN UOS Padova, Via Trasea, Padova 7 35131, Italy. paola.zuppella@pd.ifn.cnr.it.
authors.forename: Paola
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zuppella
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padua, Via Ugo Bassi 58/B, Padova 35131, Italy. pasqualotto@dei.unipd.it.
authors.forename: Elisabetta
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pasqualotto
authors.affiliation: CNR - IFN UOS Padova, Via Trasea, Padova 7 35131, Italy. sara.zuccon@pd.ifn.cnr.it.
authors.forename: Sara
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zuccon
authors.affiliation: CNR - IFN UOS Padova, Via Trasea, Padova 7 35131, Italy. fra.gerlin@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Francesca
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gerlin
authors.affiliation: CNR - IFN UOS Padova, Via Trasea, Padova 7 35131, Italy. alain.corso@pd.ifn.cnr.it.
authors.forename: Alain Jody
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Corso
authors.affiliation: ARC-Centro Ricerche Applicate, Via della Navigazione Interna 51, Padova 35129, Italy. alessandro.paccagnella@dei.unipd.it.
authors.forename: Matteo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Scaramuzza
authors.affiliation: ARC-Centro Ricerche Applicate, Via della Navigazione Interna 51, Padova 35129, Italy. alessandro.detoni@arc-project.it.
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: De Toni
authors.affiliation: Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Via Gradenigo 6/B, Padova 35131, Italy. alessandro.paccagnella@dei.unipd.it.
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Paccagnella
authors.affiliation: CNR - IFN UOS Padova, Via Trasea, Padova 7 35131, Italy. pelizzo@dei.unipd.it.
authors.forename: Maria Guglielmina
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Pelizzo
mesh_terms: D018625:Microscopy, Atomic Force; D010165:Palladium / Q000737:chemistry*; D010969:Plastics / Q000737:chemistry*; D020349:Surface Plasmon Resonance / Q000295:instrumentation*
chemical_list: D010969:Plastics; D010165:Palladium