Point-of-care plasmonic-photonic multifunction device

该申请是第二阶段合作研究与开发（CRD）项目的直接延续，作为之前资助的为期一年的第一阶段CRD项目“即时护理光纤多功能平台”的直接延续，该项目计划于2015年秋季结束。第一阶段的CRD导致了一种概念验证设备的开发，用于生物样本中基因突变或感染因子的护理点分子诊断测试。当斯巴达内部研发团队在建议的设计基础上进行构建并为未来的商业化优化设备时，我们在后续CRD项目中的任务是充分探索各种用于原型的替代设计，但由于缺乏时间而没有进行。

This application is for a phase II Collaborative Research and Development (CRD) project as a direct continuation of the previously funded one-year long phase I CRD project "Point-of-care fiber optic multifunction platform" that is scheduled to end in the fall of 2015. The phase I CRD resulted in a development of a proof-of-concept device for point of care molecular diagnostic testing of genetic mutations or infectious agents in bio-samples. While the Spartan internal R&D team builds upon the proposed design and optimize the device for future commercialization, our task in this follow-up CRD project is to explore fully a variety of alternative designs that were considered for the prototype but not pursued for lack of time.