Review on the terahertz metasensor: from featureless refractive index sensing to molecular identification

J Lyu, L Huang, L Chen, Y Zhu, S Zhuang - Photonics Research, 2024 - opg.optica.org
The terahertz (THz) wave is at the intersection between photonics and electronics in the
electromagnetic spectrum. Since the vibration mode of many biomedical molecules and the …

Terahertz plasmonics: The rise of toroidal metadevices towards immunobiosensings

A Ahmadivand, B Gerislioglu, R Ahuja, YK Mishra - Materials Today, 2020 - Elsevier
This work reviews fundamentals and the recent state-of-art achievements in the field of
plasmonic biosensing based terahertz (THz) spectroscopy. Being nonpoisonous and …

Advanced terahertz refractive sensing and fingerprint recognition through metasurface‐excited surface waves

Z Zhang, Z Wang, C Zhang, Z Yao, S Zhang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
High‐sensitive metasurface‐based sensors are essential for effective substance detection
and insightful bio‐interaction studies, which compress light in subwavelength volumes to …

Quasi-bound states in the continuum with a stable resonance wavelength in dimer dielectric metasurfaces

S You, M Zhou, L Xu, D Chen, M Fan, J Huang… - …, 2023 - degruyter.com
Symmetry-protected bound states in the continuum (SP-BICs) are one of the most intensively
studied BICs. Typically, SP-BICs must be converted into quasi-BICs (QBICs) by breaking the …

Photoactive terahertz metasurfaces for ultrafast switchable sensing of colorectal cells

Y Jiao, J Lou, Z Ma, L Cong, X Xu, B Zhang, D Li… - Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Metasurfaces with a strongly enhanced local field are envisioned as a powerful platform for
ultrasensitive optical sensors to significantly amplify imperceptible differences between …

Terahertz toroidal metasurface biosensor for sensitive distinction of lung cancer cells

C Zhang, T Xue, J Zhang, L Liu, J **e, G Wang… - …, 2021 - degruyter.com
Lung cancer is the most frequently life-threatening disease and the prominent cause of
cancer-related mortality among human beings worldwide, where poor early diagnosis and …

Functionalized terahertz plasmonic metasensors: Femtomolar-level detection of SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins

A Ahmadivand, B Gerislioglu, Z Ramezani… - Biosensors and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Effective and efficient management of human betacoronavirus severe acute respiratory
syndrome (SARS)-CoV-2 virus infection ie, COVID-19 pandemic, required sensitive and …

Terahertz microfluidic sensing with dual‐torus toroidal metasurfaces

J Xu, D Liao, M Gupta, Y Zhu, S Zhuang… - Advanced Optical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Toroidal excitation manifests as currents flowing on the surface of a torus along its meridians
that are known as poloidal currents. Several intriguing phenomena such as nonradiating …

Reusable ring-like Fe3O4/Au nanozymes with enhanced peroxidase-like activities for colorimetric-SERS dual-mode sensing of biomolecules in human blood

Y Huang, Y Gu, X Liu, T Deng, S Dai, J Qu… - Biosensors and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Peroxidase− like nanozymes have led to important progress in biosensing, but most of
nanozyme sensing systems are currently established by a single− signal output mode …

Photonic and plasmonic metasensors

A Ahmadivand, B Gerislioglu - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Biosensors have been designed and developed for detecting biomarkers, biomolecules,
proteins, enzymes, organisms, and various types of bacterial and viral diseases since the …