Liquid-infiltrated photonic crystals: Enhanced light-matter interactions for lab-on-a-chip applications

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 4, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 117-127

  Mortensen, Niels Asger ^a   Xiao, Sanshui ^a   Pedersen, Jesper ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ENERGY GAP; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROSYSTEMS; REFRACTOMETERS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC PERTURBATION THEORY; FULL-WAVE ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATIONS; LAB-ON-A-CHIP MICROSYSTEMS; OPTICAL PATH; SCALING ANALYSIS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 36448955400     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-007-0203-2     Document Type: Article

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