Open-access silicon photonics platforms in Europe

A Rahim, J Goyvaerts, B Szelag… - IEEE Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Offering open-access silicon photonics-based technologies has played a pivotal role in
unleashing this technology from research laboratories to industry. Fabless enterprises rely …

Disposable photonics for cost-effective clinical bioassays: application to COVID-19 antibody testing

JS Cognetti, DJ Steiner, M Abedin, MR Bryan… - Lab on a Chip, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Decades of research have shown that biosensors using photonic circuits fabricated using
CMOS processes can be highly sensitive, selective, and quantitative. Unfortunately, the cost …

Out-of-plane focusing grating couplers for silicon photonics integration with optical MRAM technology

H Becker, CJ Krückel, D Van Thourhout… - IEEE Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present the design methodology and experimental characterization of compact out-of-
plane focusing grating couplers for integration with magnetoresistive random access …

High performance of a metal layer-assisted guided-mode resonance biosensor modulated by double-grating

C Zhang, Y Zhou, L Mi, J Ma, X Wu, Y Fei - Biosensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Guided-mode resonance (GMR) sensors are widely used as biosensors with the
advantages of simple structure, easy detection schemes, high efficiency, and narrow …

On-chip flow cytometer using integrated photonics for the detection of human leukocytes

S Jooken, K Zinoviev, G Yurtsever, A De Proft… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Differentiation between leukocyte subtypes like monocytes and lymphocytes is essential for
cell therapy and research applications. To guarantee the cost-effective delivery of functional …

Resonant subwavelength and nano-scale grating structures for biosensing application: a comparative study

M Abutoama, M Abuleil, I Abdulhalim - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Resonant-based sensors are attractive optical structures due to the easy detection of shifts
in the resonance location in response to variations in the analyte refractive index (RI) in …

Inverse design of photonic meta-structure for beam collimation in on-chip sensing

R Singh, Y Nie, M Gao, AM Agarwal, BW Anthony - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Designed or patterned structured surfaces, metasurfaces, enable the miniaturization of
complex arrangements of optical elements on a plane. Most of the existing literature focuses …

A Microfluidics Approach for Ovarian Cancer Immune Monitoring in an Outpatient Setting

S Libbrecht, A Vankerckhoven, K De Wijs, T Baert… - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
Among cancer diagnoses in women, ovarian cancer has the fifth-highest mortality rate.
Current treatments are unsatisfactory, and new therapies are highly needed …

Novel photonic bio-chip sensor based on strained graphene sheets for blood cell sorting

F Ghasemi, S Razi - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
A photonic biochip with a tunable response in the visible range is suggested for blood cell
sorting applications. Multi-layers of ZnS and Ge slabs (as the main building blocks), hosting …

Low loss SiN films for integrated photonics deposited by PVD at low temperature

E Kempf, M Calvo, F Domengie, S Monfray… - Optical Materials …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Integration of SiN films with Si photonics platforms is attractive for the 3D integration of
multiple waveguide levels in optical routing circuits. This paper reports on the optical …