Label-free optical biosensing: going beyond the limits

AV Kabashin, VG Kravets, AN Grigorenko - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Label-free optical biosensing holds great promise for a variety of applications in biomedical
diagnostics, environmental and food safety, and security. It is already used as a key tool in …

Nanophotonic nonlinear and laser devices exploiting bound states in the continuum

MS Hwang, KY Jeong, JP So, KH Kim… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
The quality factor (Q), describing the rate of energy loss from a resonator, is a defining
performance metric for nanophotonic devices. Suppressing cavity radiative losses enables …

Recent advances in strongly resonant and gradient all-dielectric metasurfaces

DC Zografopoulos, O Tsilipakos - Materials Advances, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
All-dielectric metasurfaces have been intensively researched as a low-loss, flat-optics
platform for the advanced manipulation of electromagnetic wave propagation. Among the …

[HTML][HTML] All-dielectric metasurface-based multimode sensing with symmetry-protected and accidental bound states in the continuum

K Wang, H Liu, Z Li, M Liu, Y Zhang, H Zhang - Results in Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
Symmetry-protected and accidental bound states in the continuum (BICs) are generated by
various triggering mechanisms, and it is challenging to use them together for sensing. This …

Excitation of multiple Fano resonances on all-dielectric nanoparticle arrays

D Wang, X Fan, W Fang, H Niu, J Tao, C Li, X Wei… - Optics express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, an all-dielectric metasurface consisting of a unit cell containing a nanocube
array and organized periodically on a silicon dioxide substrate is designed and analyzed. By …

Refractometric imaging and biodetection empowered by nanophotonics

S Sun, L Wu, Z Geng, PP Shum, X Ma… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Advancing clinical and nonclinical diagnostic technologies is particularly crucial for
improved preparedness for the next pandemic and other global healthcare challenges. To …

Highly-sensitive sensor based on toroidal dipole governed by bound state in the continuum in dielectric non-coaxial core-shell cylinder

Y Huo, X Zhang, M Yan, K Sun, S Jiang, T Ning… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The electromagnetic fields distributed on the surface region of the nanostructure is very
important to improve the performance of the sensor. Here, we proposed a highly sensitive …

Molecularly Imprinted Polymer Sensor Empowered by Bound States in the Continuum for Selective Trace‐Detection of TGF‐beta

G Zito, G Siciliano, A Seifalinezhad… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The integration of advanced materials and photonic nanostructures can lead to enhanced
biodetection capabilities, crucial in clinical scenarios and point‐of‐care diagnostics, where …

Label-free bound-states-in-the-continuum biosensors

M Luo, Y Zhou, X Zhao, Y Li, Z Guo, X Yang, M Zhang… - Biosensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Bound states in the continuum (BICs) have attracted considerable attentions for biological
and chemical sensing due to their infinite quality (Q)-factors in theory. Such high-Q devices …

High-Q photonic aptasensor based on avoided crossing bound states in the continuum and trace detection of ochratoxin A

C Schiattarella, G Sanità, BG Alulema, V Lanzio… - … and Bioelectronics: X, 2022 - Elsevier
High quality factor (Q) optical biosensors find many applications, from environmental
monitoring to food safety and clinical diagnostics. In particular, bound states in the …