Patent ID: 9702821
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: B82Y,G01N

Claim:
1. A method for forming a surface-enhanced fluorescence spectroscopy (SEFS) apparatus, said method comprising: depositing first, second and third surface-enhanced spectroscopy (SES) elements onto respective tips of first, second and third nano-fingers, wherein the first, second and third nano-fingers are arranged in sufficiently close proximities to each other to enable the tips of the first, second, and third nano-fingers to come into sufficiently close proximities to each other to enable the first, second and third SES elements on the tips to trap a fluorescence enhancing element when the first, second and third nano-fingers are partially collapsed; introducing the fluorescence enhancing element between the first, second and third SES elements; and causing the first, second and third nano-fingers in the group of adjacent nano-fingers to partially collapse toward each other to cause the first, second and third SES elements on the tips of the first, second, and third nano-fingers in the group to come into sufficiently close proximities to each other to trap a fluorescence enhancing element between and in mutual concurrent contact with each of the first, second and third SES elements.