The high index contrast silicon-on-insulator platform is the dominant CMOS compatible
platform for photonic integration. The successful use of silicon photonic chips in optical …

There is a rapidly growing demand to use silicon and silicon nitride (Si_3N_4) integrated
photonics for sensing applications, ranging from refractive index to spectroscopic sensing …

Silicon photonics typically builds on a silicon-on-insulator based high-index-contrast
waveguide system. Silicon nitride provides an alternative moderate-index-contrast system …

The interaction of light with subwavelength metallic nano-structures is at the heart of different
current scientific hot topics, namely plasmonics, metamaterials and nanoantennas …

We review an on-chip approach for spontaneous Raman spectroscopy and surface-
enhanced Raman spectroscopy based on evanescent excitation of the analyte as well as …

We demonstrate the generation of Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) signals
from integrated bowtie antennas, excited and collected by the fundamental TE mode of a …

Optical nanoantennas provide a promising pathway toward advanced manipulation of light
waves, such as directional scattering, polarization conversion, and fluorescence …

A hybrid integration of nanoplasmonic antennas with silicon nitride waveguides enables
miniaturized chips for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy at visible and near-infrared …

As a non-invasive detection technology, integrated sensors for surface-enhanced Raman
spectroscopy (SERS) have been widely studied to realize inexpensive in situ …

Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is a widely known sensing technique that
uses a plasmonic enhancement to probe analytes in ultra-small volumes. Recently, the …