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 …

Two-Dimensional photonic crystal Biosensors: A review

F Parandin, F Heidari, Z Rahimi, S Olyaee - Optics & laser technology, 2021 - Elsevier
Photonic crystals are nanoscale structures that affect the motion of photons. The strong light
limitation in photonic crystals and the adjustment of its structural parameters have led to the …

Photonic crystals: emerging biosensors and their promise for point-of-care applications

H Inan, M Poyraz, F Inci, MA Lifson, M Baday… - Chemical society …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Biosensors are extensively employed for diagnosing a broad array of diseases and
disorders in clinical settings worldwide. The implementation of biosensors at the point-of …

Integrated optical devices for lab‐on‐a‐chip biosensing applications

MC Estevez, M Alvarez… - Laser & Photonics …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The application of portable, easy‐to‐use and highly sensitive lab‐on‐a‐chip biosensing
devices for real‐time diagnosis could offer significant advantages over current analytical …

Fast, accurate, point-of-care COVID-19 pandemic diagnosis enabled through advanced lab-on-chip optical biosensors: Opportunities and challenges

A Asghari, C Wang, KM Yoo, A Rostamian… - Applied physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The sudden rise of the worldwide severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-
CoV-2) pandemic in early 2020 has called into drastic action measures to perform instant …

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 …

Last advances in silicon-based optical biosensors

A Fernández Gavela, D Grajales García, JC Ramirez… - sensors, 2016 - mdpi.com
We review the most important achievements published in the last five years in the field of
silicon-based optical biosensors. We focus specially on label-free optical biosensors and …

Theoretical study of hybrid multifunctional one-dimensional photonic crystal as a flexible blood sugar sensor

AH Aly, ZA Zaky, AS Shalaby, AM Ahmed… - Physica …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Photonic sensing is a novel technology and accurate measurement for biosensing
applications. The present work proposes a defective one-dimensional photonic crystal (1D …

A review for optical sensors based on photonic crystal cavities

Y Zhang, Y Zhao, R Lv - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2015 - Elsevier
This review covers photonic crystal cavities (PCCs) and their applications in optical sensors,
with a particular focus on the structures of different PCCs. For each kind of optical sensor …

Design of a label-free photonic crystal refractive index sensor for biomedical applications

M Danaie, B Kiani - Photonics and nanostructures-fundamentals and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Two photonic crystal optical refractive index sensors have been proposed in this paper.
These sensors can be used for detection of basal cell cancer. A rod-type square lattice of …