Optical sensors are widely used for refractive index measurement in chemical, biomedical,
and food processing industries. Due to specific field distribution of the resonances, optical …

Thanks to advanced semiconductor microfabrication technology, chip-scale integration and
miniaturization of lab-on-a-chip components, silicon-based optical biosensors have made …

Abstract In 1987, Yablonovitch and John proposed an artificial dielectric structure known as
Photonic crystals (PhCs) consisting of periodic and random variation of the refractive index …

Micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) gas sensors represent a system that is capable of
detecting the existence and concentration of gasses in the atmosphere. These sensors have …

Gas sensors are important in many fields such as environmental monitoring, agricultural
production, public safety, and medical diagnostics. Herein, Tamm plasmon resonance in a …

In contemporary science and technology, photonic sensors are essential. They may be
made to be extremely resistant to some physical parameters while also being extremely …

Nanophotonics, manipulating light–matter interactions at the nanoscale, is an appealing
technology for diversified biochemical and physical sensing applications. Guided-wave …

Microwave photonics is a field that studies the interaction between microwave and optical
waves for the generation, transmission, processing, and measurements of microwave …

This review covers photonic crystal cavities (PCCs) and their applications in optical sensors,
with a particular focus on the structures of different PCCs. For each kind of optical sensor …

Two photonic crystal optical refractive index sensors have been proposed in this paper.
These sensors can be used for detection of basal cell cancer. A rod-type square lattice of …