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Record W4406753120 · doi:10.1117/12.3044165

Detection of Escherichia coli bacteria using surface plasmon resonance-wavelength interrogation setup

2025· article· en· W4406753120 on OpenAlexaff
Sara Mohamed, Karim El-Seherawy, Mostafa Hassan, Ahmed Kreta, Baraah Hasanin, Yasmine Elbagoury, Heba M. Refaat, Shaimaa Ahmed, Mai Mostafa, Ahmed Moustafa, Mohamed A. Swillam

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicBiosensors and Analytical Detection
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Waterloo
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSurface plasmon resonanceEscherichia coliInterrogationWavelengthMaterials scienceResonance (particle physics)Surface plasmonBacteriaOptoelectronicsOpticsPlasmonChemistryPhysicsNanotechnologyNanoparticleBiologyAtomic physics

Abstract

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The last 20 years have seen significant progress in Surface Plasmonic Resonance (SPR), which has applications in material characterization, chemical sensing, biosensing, and other domains. SPR's increased sensitivity to changes in the materials' refractive indices has made it common in biosensing applications. In this study, we built an affordable SPR sensor system in our lab using wavelength interrogation setup. The suggested setup was developed and included a spectrophotometer, polarization sheet, attenuator, and a supercontinuum white light source. The SPR phenomenon is attained when a p-polarized light beam incident above a semicircular prism, which serves as a coupling medium and is attached to a thin layer of 53 nm thickness of gold (Au) by a matching oil. The SPR phenomenon is based on the wavelength, refractive index, and the angle as well. The dielectric medium can be changed, which changes the SPR angle as a result. Fixing the SPR angle while detecting the SPR wavelength over a broad wavelength range (400 to 700nm) is our main objective. Pathogenic bacteria such as Escherichia coli (E. coli) can have fatal effects on human health. It is possible that the water that is contaminated contains E. coli. In order to mimic the contaminated water, E. coli analytes with various concentrations were prepared using the serial dilution method and were diluted in sterilized deionized water with concentrations of (10-1 to 10-10) cells/mL. Achieving the lowest concentration of E. coli analytes to ascertain the limit of detection (LOD) and the sensitivity of the created SPR setup are the goals of the serial dilution approach.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.002
Threshold uncertainty score0.005

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.223
Teacher spread0.211 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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