Advances and applications of nanophotonic biosensors

H Altug, SH Oh, SA Maier, J Homola - Nature nanotechnology, 2022‏ - nature.com
Nanophotonic devices, which control light in subwavelength volumes and enhance light–
matter interactions, have opened up exciting prospects for biosensing. Numerous …

Surface-enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy

J Kozuch, K Ataka, J Heberle - Nature Reviews Methods Primers, 2023‏ - nature.com
When molecules are placed at the interface to metals or metal oxides, an increase in their
infrared (IR) spectral intensities is observed, a phenomenon termed surface-enhanced …

Calibration-free, high-precision, and robust terahertz ultrafast metasurfaces for monitoring gastric cancers

J Lou, Y Jiao, R Yang, Y Huang, X Xu, L Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2022‏ - pnas.org
Optical sensors, with great potential to convert invisible bioanalytical response into readable
information, have been envisioned as a powerful platform for biological analysis and early …

A highly sensitive CRISPR‐empowered surface plasmon resonance sensor for diagnosis of inherited diseases with femtomolar‐level real‐time quantification

F Zheng, Z Chen, J Li, R Wu, B Zhang, G Nie… - Advanced …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) molecular system
has emerged as a promising technology for the detection of nucleic acids. Herein, the …

2D material infrared photonics and plasmonics

A Elbanna, H Jiang, Q Fu, JF Zhu, Y Liu, M Zhao… - ACS …, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional (2D) materials including graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, black
phosphorus, MXenes, and semimetals have attracted extensive and widespread interest …

Interface nano-optics with van der Waals polaritons

Q Zhang, G Hu, W Ma, P Li, A Krasnok, R Hillenbrand… - Nature, 2021‏ - nature.com
Polaritons are hybrid excitations of matter and photons. In recent years, polaritons in van der
Waals nanomaterials—known as van der Waals polaritons—have shown great promise to …

Ultra-wideband terahertz fingerprint enhancement sensing and inversion model supported by single-pixel reconfigurable graphene metasurface

B Liu, Y Peng, YF Hao, Y Zhu, S Chang, S Zhuang - PhotoniX, 2024‏ - Springer
The molecular fingerprint sensing technology based on metasurface has unique attraction in
the biomedical field. However, in the terahertz (THz) band, existing metasurface designs …

[PDF][PDF] Graphene-empowered dynamic metasurfaces and metadevices

C Zeng, H Lu, D Mao, Y Du, H Hua, W Zhao… - Opto-Electron …, 2022‏ - researching.cn
Metasurfaces, with extremely exotic capabilities to manipulate electromagnetic (EM) waves,
have derived a plethora of advanced metadevices with intriguing functionalities …

Optical metasurfaces for energy conversion

E Cortés, FJ Wendisch, L Sortino, A Mancini… - Chemical …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Nanostructured surfaces with designed optical functionalities, such as metasurfaces, allow
efficient harvesting of light at the nanoscale, enhancing light–matter interactions for a wide …

The Bouguer‐Beer‐Lambert law: Shining light on the obscure

TG Mayerhöfer, S Pahlow, J Popp - ChemPhysChem, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Beer‐Lambert law is unquestionably the most important law in optical
spectroscopy and indispensable for the qualitative and quantitative interpretation of …