Photonic crystals in bioassays

Y Zhao, X Zhao, Z Gu - Advanced Functional Materials, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Photonic crystal (PC) based bioassay techniques have many advantages in sensitive
biomolecular screening, label‐free detection, real‐time monitoring of enzyme activity, cell …

Sensitivity enhancement in photonic crystal slab biosensors

M El Beheiry, V Liu, S Fan, O Levi - Optics express, 2010 - opg.optica.org
Refractive index sensitivity of guided resonances in photonic crystal slabs is analyzed. We
show that modal properties of guided resonances strongly affect spectral sensitivity and …

Controllable growth of well-aligned ZnO nanorod arrays by low-temperature wet chemical bath deposition method

Q Li, J Bian, J Sun, J Wang, Y Luo, K Sun, D Yu - Applied Surface Science, 2010 - Elsevier
Well-aligned ZnO nanorod arrays were synthesized by low-temperature wet chemical bath
deposition (CBD) method on Si substrate under different conditions. Results illustrated that …

Surface-enhanced Raman nanodomes

CJ Choi, Z Xu, HY Wu, GL Liu… - Nanotechnology, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We demonstrate a surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrate consisting of a
closely spaced metal nanodome array fabricated on flexible plastic film. We used a low-cost …

The degradation mechanism of methyl orange under photo-catalysis of TiO 2

L Yu, J **, HT Chan, T Su, DL Phillips… - Physical Chemistry …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
The properties of photo-generated reactive species, holes and electrons in bulk TiO2
(anatase) film and nano-sized TiO2 were studied and their effects towards decomposing …

Photonic crystal surfaces as a general purpose platform for label-free and fluorescent assays

BT Cunningham - JALA: Journal of the Association for …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
Photonic crystal (PC) surfaces can be designed to provide a wide range of functions that are
used to perform biochemical and cell-based assays. Detection of the optical resonant …

Amplifying fluorescence sensing based on inverse opal photonic crystal toward trace TNT detection

H Li, J Wang, Z Pan, L Cui, L Xu, R Wang… - Journal of Materials …, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
A fluorescence-amplifying method based on photonic crystal (PC) has been demonstrated
for trace TNT detection. The fluorescence enhancement for TNT detection on the optimized …

Amplification of fluorescent contrast by photonic crystals in optical storage

H Li, J Wang, H Lin, L Xu, W Xu, R Wang, Y Song… - Advanced …, 2010 - infona.pl
Photonic Memory: A facile approach to amplifying fluorescent contrast by introducing
photonic crystals (PCs) into optical memory is demonstrated. The fluorescence image on the …

Heterogeneous Lollipop-like V2O5/ZnO Array: A Promising Composite Nanostructure for Visible Light Photocatalysis

CW Zou, YF Rao, A Alyamani, W Chu, MJ Chen… - Langmuir, 2010 - ACS Publications
ZnO/V2O5 core− shell nanostructures have been prepared by a two-step synthesis route
through combined hydrothermal growth and magnetron sputtering. After annealing under …

Enhanced fluorescence microscopic imaging by plasmonic nanostructures: from a 1D grating to a 2D nanohole array

X Cui, K Tawa, K Kintaka, J Nishii - Advanced Functional …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract A two‐dimensional (2D) plasmonic coupling nanostructure for enhanced
fluorescence observation using a microscope is presented. The substrate contained …