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

A biosensor can be defined as a compact analytical device or unit incorporating a biological
or biologically derived sensitive recognition element immobilized on a physicochemical …

The correct detection and quantification of pollutants in water is key to regulating their
presence in the environment. Biosensors offer several advantages, such as minimal sample …

Standard silicon photonic strip waveguides offer a high intrinsic refractive index contrast; this
permits strong light confinement, leading to compact bends, which in turn facilitates the …

It is a remarkable and straightforward approach to customize the dispersion and nonlinear
properties of the photonic devices without varying the composition of the material by …

In this paper, a novel silicon photonic waveguide for a high sensitivity label-free sensor is
presented. We use silicon-on-insulator subwavelength waveguides that consist of five rows …

This work presents simulation and experimental results of ultra-thin optical ring resonators,
having larger Evanescent Field (EF) penetration depths, and therefore larger sensitivities, as …

Evanescent field sensors have shown promise for biological sensing applications. In
particular, Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI)-nano-photonic based resonator sensors have many …

Silicon photonics has been an area of active research and development. Researchers have
been working on enhancing the integration density and intricacy of silicon photonic circuits …

In this work, we present a detailed analysis of individual loss mechanisms in silicon nitride
partial Euler bends at a wavelength of 850? nm. This structure optimizes the transmission …