Progress and Outlooks in Designing Photonic Biosensor for Virus Detection

A Tsalsabila, VA Dabur, IJ Budiarso… - Advanced Optical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The recent outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) highlights the critical need for
rapid, sensitive, and accurate virus detection methods to prevent and manage pandemics …

Ultrasound sensing with optical microcavities

X Cao, H Yang, ZL Wu, BB Li - Light: Science & Applications, 2024 - nature.com
Ultrasound sensors play an important role in biomedical imaging, industrial nondestructive
inspection, etc. Traditional ultrasound sensors that use piezoelectric transducers face …

Thermo-optoplasmonic single-molecule sensing on optical microcavities

NA Toropov, MC Houghton, D Yu, F Vollmer - ACS nano, 2024 - ACS Publications
Whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) resonators are powerful instruments for single-molecule
sensing in biological and biochemical investigations. WGM sensors leveraged by plasmonic …

Piezoelectric-enhanced ultrasensitive ZnO/Ag microcavity SERS substrate for dopamine detection

W Deng, L Yuan, P Wan, J Sun, C Kan, D Shi, C Xu… - Nano Energy, 2025 - Elsevier
In the complex human body fluids, neurotransmitters such as dopamine (DA) play a
significant role in regulating physiological functions, thereby impacting the normal …

Photonic Bound States in the Continuum in Nanostructures

H Zhong, T He, Y Meng, Q **ao - Materials, 2023 - mdpi.com
Bound states in the continuum (BIC) have garnered considerable attention recently for their
unique capacity to confine electromagnetic waves within an open or non-Hermitian system …

Laser irradiation-induced surface-enhanced Raman scattering of Sn@ SnO composite films

X Du, J Wang, R Hong, C Tao, Q Wang, H Lin… - Optics & Laser …, 2025 - Elsevier
Abstract In this work, Sn@ SnO composite films were obtained by Nd: YAG fiber pulsed laser
ablation at room temperature. The effects of laser ablation on the microstructure, optical …

Whispering gallery mode optical resonators for biological and chemical detection: current practices, future perspectives, and challenges

S Hao, J Su - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Sensors are important for a wide variety of applications include medical diagnostics and
environmental monitoring. Due to their long photon confinement times, whispering gallery …

Raman enhancement via double optical resonances in all-dielectric photonic crystal slabs

Y Xu, S Wu, S Hong, X Wang, X Liu, J Wang… - Applied Physics …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
All-dielectric photonic structures are an important class of substrates in surface-enhanced
Raman spectroscopy (SERS), utilizing optical resonant modes to significantly enhance the …

Engineering Dispersive-Dissipative Modal Coupling in Hybrid Optical Microresonators

X Zhu, X **ong, Z Zhu, W Liu, QT Cao, YF **ao - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Hybrid microresonators have served an intriguing platform for fundamental research and
applied photonics. Here, we study the plasmonics-engineered coupling between …

Triple-enhanced Raman scattering sensor based on superhydrophobic/-philic microsphere platform and heating evaporation assisted for high-sensitivity detection

J Yu, G Gu, C Qu, Z Zheng, H Yang, L Lu… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2024 - Elsevier
The ability to detect molecules in small volumes of highly diluted solutions is crucial for
applications such as food quality and safety, environmental monitoring, biomedical …