Since its first demonstration as a promising material for molecular detection two decades
ago, porous silicon (PSi) has become a commercially viable optical biosensor platform …

Colloidal photonic crystals (PCs), consisting of highly ordered monodisperse nanoparticles,
have been carried out a great deal of research in recent decades due to the attributes of …

A new aptamer microarray method on the TiO2–porous silicon (PSi) surface was developed
to simultaneously screen multiplex mycotoxins. The TiO2 nanolayer on the surface of PSi …

The synthesis and full characterization of a family of sustainable luminescent nanoparticles,
CdTeQDs@ MNs, made of quantum dots coated by modified mesoporous silica …

In the field of photovoltaics, achieving high efficiency in both light absorption and light
trap** simultaneously remains challenging. Photon management, which refers to the …

This work presents a new technique to study polymers under strong geometrical
confinement in nanoporous films. The procedure is based on sensing the changes of the …

Porous silicon (PSi) is a promising material for future integrated nanophotonics when
coupled with guest emitters, still facing challenges in terms of homogenous distribution and …

A porous photonic crystal is integrated with a plastic medical fixture (IV connector hub) to
provide a visual colorimetric sensor to indicate the presence or absence of alcohol used to …

The fabrication, characterization and application of a nanoporous Silicon Rugate Filter
(pSiRF) loaded with an enzymatically degradable polymer is reported as a bare eye …

In this paper, a silicon-based microcavity consists of a defect layer between different
coupling mirrors such as the rugate, Bragg, and sawtooth filters, and a combination of rugate …