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Total internal reflection ellipsometry (TIRE) technique was used to investigate biological recognition layers of immunosensors in order to estimate orientation of immobilized intact- and fragmented-antibodies. Two differently prepared biological recognition layers formed on gold-substrate were investigated: one layer was based on intact-antibodies (intact-Ab), second layer was based on chemically fragmented specific-antibodies (frag-Ab), which were obtained by reduction of intact-Ab. It was shown that TIRE enables to resolve differences in nanostructures of intact-Ab and frag-Ab layers. A multilayer model applied in our calculations shows that the distance between fragmented-antibody active sites and gold-surface after the immobilization process is lower than theoretical dimension of fragmented-antibodies. Moreover, it was calculated that analytical sensitivity of the Δ(λ) parameter of TIRE was 5.89 times better if …