Optical refractive index sensors with plasmonic and photonic structures: promising and inconvenient truth

Y Xu, P Bai, X Zhou, Y Akimov, CE Png… - Advanced Optical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Optical sensors are widely used for refractive index measurement in chemical, biomedical,
and food processing industries. Due to specific field distribution of the resonances, optical …

Single nanoparticle detection using optical microcavities

Y Zhi, XC Yu, Q Gong, L Yang, YF **ao - Advanced Materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Detection of nanoscale objects is highly desirable in various fields such as early‐stage
disease diagnosis, environmental monitoring and homeland security. Optical microcavity …

Silicon‐based integrated label‐free optofluidic biosensors: latest advances and roadmap

J Wang, MM Sanchez, Y Yin, R Herzer… - Advanced Materials …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
By virtue of the well‐developed micro‐and nanofabrication technologies and rapidly
progressing surface functionalization strategies, silicon‐based devices have been widely …

[HTML][HTML] High-Q quasi-BIC in photonic crystal nanobeam for ultrahigh sensitivity refractive index sensing

B Duan, S Liu, X Liu, X Yu, C Wang, D Yang - Results in Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
We propose and numerically demonstrate the existence of bound state in the continuum
(BIC) in silicon-based one-dimensional photonic crystal nanobeam (1D-PCN). The 1D-PCN …

Optical microresonators for sensing and transduction: a materials perspective

KD Heylman, KA Knapper, EH Horak… - Advanced …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Optical microresonators confine light to a particular microscale trajectory, are exquisitely
sensitive to their microenvironment, and offer convenient readout of their optical properties …

Photonic quasi-crystal fiber-based plasmonic biosensor: a platform for detection of coronavirus

M Aliee, MH Mozaffari - Plasmonics, 2022 - Springer
Since the coronavirus pandemic began, research groups worldwide developed diagnostic
tests. One of the promising platforms for testing is an optical and plasmonic biosensor …

Detection of Single Nanoparticles Using the Dissipative Interaction in a High- Microcavity

BQ Shen, XC Yu, Y Zhi, L Wang, D Kim, Q Gong… - Physical Review …, 2016 - APS
Ultrasensitive optical detection of nanometer-scaled particles is highly desirable for
applications in early-stage diagnosis of human diseases, environmental monitoring, and …

Photonic crystal nanobeam cavities for nanoscale optical sensing: A review

DQ Yang, B Duan, X Liu, AQ Wang, XG Li, YF Ji - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
The ability to detect nanoscale objects is particular crucial for a wide range of applications,
such as environmental protection, early-stage disease diagnosis and drug discovery …

Photonic-plasmonic hybrid single-molecule nanosensor measures the effect of fluorescent labels on DNA-protein dynamics

F Liang, Y Guo, S Hou, Q Quan - Science advances, 2017 - science.org
Current methods to study molecular interactions require labeling the subject molecules with
fluorescent reporters. However, the effect of the fluorescent reporters on molecular dynamics …

Photonic crystal nanobeam cavity with a high experimental Q factor exceeding two million based on machine learning

L Liu, C Ma, M Ye, Z Yu, W Xue… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose and demonstrate a six-hole tapered silicon photonic crystal nanobeam cavity
with a theoretical high quality (Q) factor and an ultrasmall mode volume based on machine …