Investigation of the Effect of Target Localization on the Sensitivity Enhancement of Nanowire-Mediated Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensors

S. M. Jang and S. J. Kim thank the support by a grant of the Korea Healthcare technology R&D Project, Ministry for Health, Welfare & Family Affairs, Republic of Korea(A084359) and the support by the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF) through the Nano Bioelectronics and Systems Research Center (NBS-ERC) at Seoul National University. K. M. Byun thanks the support by the Korea Research Foundation Grant funded by the Korean Government (MOEHRD, Basic Research Promotion Fund) (KRF-2008-331-D00229). D. Kim thanks the support by the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF) through National Core Research Center for Nanomedical Technology (R15-2004- 024-00000-0) and KOSEF 2007-8-1158. D. Kim was also supported by "System IC 2010" project of Ministry of Knowledge Economy and by the IT R&D program of MIC/IITA [2007-S001-01, Development of Implantable System Based on Biomedical Signal Processing].