YOCTOMOLE NON-LABELED PROTEIN DETECTION IN EXTENDED-NANO CHANNEL BY UV EXCITATION DIFFERENTIAL INTERFERENCE CONTRAST THERMAL LENS MICROSCOPY

We report non-labeled protein detection at 100 yoctomole (10 mole) level with an optical path length of 900 nm by improving UV differential interference contrast thermal lens microscopy (UV-DICTLM). In the present study, we made UV-DIC-TLM optimized the optical configuration to obtain maximum signal, and realized 15-fold higher sensitivity than previous report [1].