Metasurface micro/nano-optical sensors: principles and applications

J Qin, S Jiang, Z Wang, X Cheng, B Li, Y Shi, DP Tsai… - ACS …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Metasurfaces are 2D artificial materials consisting of arrays of metamolecules, which are
exquisitely designed to manipulate light in terms of amplitude, phase, and polarization state …

Tailoring structure‐borne sound through bandgap engineering in phononic crystals and metamaterials: a comprehensive review

M Oudich, NJRK Gerard, Y Deng… - Advanced Functional …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
In solid state physics, a bandgap (BG) refers to a range of energies where no electronic
states can exist. This concept was extended to classical waves, spawning the entire fields of …

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 …

High-Q silicon microring resonator with ultrathin sub-wavelength thicknesses for sensitive gas sensing

R Guo, Q He, Z Zhang, Y Xu, S Zhang, Q Lang… - Applied Physics …, 2024‏ - pubs.aip.org
Microring resonators, due to their ability to enable robust strong light–matter interactions
within their structures, have garnered substantial interest for their utility in sensing …

Optical whispering-gallery mode barcodes for high-precision and wide-range temperature measurements

J Liao, L Yang - Light: Science & Applications, 2021‏ - nature.com
Temperature is one of the most fundamental physical properties to characterize various
physical, chemical, and biological processes. Even a slight change in temperature could …

Observation of exceptional points in thermal atomic ensembles

C Liang, Y Tang, AN Xu, YC Liu - Physical Review Letters, 2023‏ - APS
Exceptional points (EPs) in non-Hermitian systems have recently attracted wide interest and
spawned intriguing prospects for enhanced sensing. However, EPs have not yet been …

Whispering-gallery sensors

X Jiang, AJ Qavi, SH Huang, L Yang - Matter, 2020‏ - cell.com
Optical whispering-gallery mode (WGM) microresonators, confining resonant photons in a
microscale volume for long periods of time, strongly enhance light-matter interactions …

Biophotonic probes for bio-detection and imaging

T Pan, D Lu, H **n, B Li - Light: Science & Applications, 2021‏ - nature.com
The rapid development of biophotonics and biomedical sciences makes a high demand on
photonic structures to be interfaced with biological systems that are capable of manipulating …

Integrated microcavity electric field sensors using Pound-Drever-Hall detection

X Ma, Z Cai, C Zhuang, X Liu, Z Zhang, K Liu… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Discerning weak electric fields has important implications for cosmology, quantum
technology, and identifying power system failures. Photonic integration of electric field …

Plasmonic Coupling on an Optical Microfiber Surface: Enabling Single‐Molecule and Noninvasive Dopamine Detection

Y Huang, P Chen, L Zhou, J Zheng, H Wu… - Advanced …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Optical fibers can be effective biosensors when employed in early‐stage diagnostic point‐of‐
care devices as they can avoid interference from molecules with similar redox potentials …