Organic Nanophotonics for Low-Cost Biosensing

Promises and Challenges of Nanoplasmonic Devices for Refractometric Biosensing.

Optical biosensors based on surface plasmon resonance (SPR) in metallic thin films are currently standard tools for measuring molecular binding kinetics and affinities - an important task for biophysical studies and pharmaceutical development. Motivated by recent progress in the design and fabrication of metallic nanostructures, such as nanoparticles or nanoholes of various shapes, researchers ...

Organic Nanophotonics: from Controllable Self-Assembly of Optofunctional Molecules to Low-Dimensional Materials with Desired Photonic Properties

Bio-inspired Aluminium-based Random Plasmonic Metasurface for Biosensing Applications

Medical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA NanoPhotonics Group, Kapitza Building, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Institute of Microstructure Technology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Hermann-von-Helmholtzplatz1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW...

Integrated Optical Mach-Zehnder Interferometer Based on Organic-Inorganic Hybrids for Photonics-on-a-Chip Biosensing Applications

The development of portable low-cost integrated optics-based biosensors for photonics-on-a-chip devices for real-time diagnosis are of great interest, offering significant advantages over current analytical methods. We report the fabrication and characterization of an optical sensor based on a Mach-Zehnder interferometer to monitor the growing concentration of bacteria in a liquid medium. The d...

Label-Free Optical Detection of Fibrinogen in Visible Region Using Nanoimprint Lithography-Based Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal

For the future medical diagnostics, high-sensitive, rapid, and cost effective biosensors to detect the biomarkers have been desired. In this study, the polymer-based two-dimensional photonic crystal (2DPC) was fabricated using nanoimprint lithography (NIL) for biosensing application. In addition, for biosensing application, label-free detection of fibrinogen which is a biomarker to diagnose the...