Recent advances in photonic crystal optical devices: A review

MA Butt, SN Khonina, NL Kazanskiy - Optics & Laser Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract In 1987, Yablonovitch and John proposed an artificial dielectric structure known as
Photonic crystals (PhCs) consisting of periodic and random variation of the refractive index …

Cell refractive index for cell biology and disease diagnosis: past, present and future

PY Liu, LK Chin, W Ser, HF Chen, CM Hsieh, CH Lee… - Lab on a Chip, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Cell refractive index is a key biophysical parameter, which has been extensively studied. It is
correlated with other cell biophysical properties including mechanical, electrical and optical …

Dielectric nanohole array metasurface for high-resolution near-field sensing and imaging

D Conteduca, I Barth, G Pitruzzello, CP Reardon… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Dielectric metasurfaces support resonances that are widely explored both for far-field
wavefront sha** and for near-field sensing and imaging. Their design explores the …

Photonic crystal resonances for sensing and imaging

G Pitruzzello, TF Krauss - Journal of Optics, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
This review provides an insight into the recent developments of photonic crystal (PhC)-
based devices for sensing and imaging, with a particular emphasis on biosensors. We focus …

A concise review of the progress in photonic sensing devices

M Shahbaz, MA Butt, R Piramidowicz - Photonics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Photonic sensing devices have become increasingly important in various fields such as
agriculture, medicine, biochemical sensing, and manufacturing. They are highly sensitive …

Marrow-inspired matrix cues rapidly affect early fate decisions of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells

JS Choi, BAC Harley - Science advances, 2017 - science.org
Hematopoiesis is the physiological process where hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs)
continuously generate the body's complement of blood and immune cells within unique …

Applications and developments of on-chip biochemical sensors based on optofluidic photonic crystal cavities

Y Zhang, Y Zhao, T Zhou, Q Wu - Lab on a Chip, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Photonic crystal (PC) cavities, which possess the advantages of compactness, flexible
design, and suitability for integration in a lab-on-a-chip system, are able to distinguish slight …

Engineering the hematopoietic stem cell niche: Frontiers in biomaterial science

JS Choi, BP Mahadik, BAC Harley - Biotechnology journal, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) play a crucial role in the generation of the body's blood
and immune cells. This process takes place primarily in the bone marrow in …

[HTML][HTML] Dielectric barrier discharge in mass spectrometry–An overview over plasma investigations and ion sources applications

A Pape, OJ Schmitz - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
A recent development in ion source research are the so-called low temperature plasmas
based on dielectric barrier discharges. As the name comprises, a feature of these ion …

Single nanoparticle detection using photonic crystal enhanced microscopy

Y Zhuo, H Hu, W Chen, M Lu, L Tian, H Yu, KD Long… - Analyst, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
We demonstrate a label-free biosensor imaging approach that utilizes a photonic crystal
(PC) surface to detect surface attachment of individual dielectric and metal nanoparticles …