pH measurements in 16-nL-volume solutions using terahertz chemical microscopy

Opt Express. 2018 Apr 2;26(7):8232-8238. doi: 10.1364/OE.26.008232.

Abstract

Terahertz chemical microscopy has been developed for measuring the pH of a solution using only a small volume. The microsolution wells were fabricated on the surface of the sensing plate using a conventional photolithograph technique. Because the pH value can be calculated from the amplitude of a terahertz wave directly radiated from a sensing plate by a femtosecond laser irradiation, this method does not require any reference electrode in the solution. Thus, pH measurement can be achieved with a volume as small as 16 nL.