Sensitive label-free biosensing using critical modes in aperiodic photonic structures

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 12511-12522

  Boriskina, Svetlana V ^a   Dal Negro, Luca ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

APERIODIC PHOTONIC STRUCTURES; APERIODIC STRUCTURE; COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ENHANCED SENSITIVITY; LABEL-FREE BIOSENSING; LABEL-FREE OPTICAL BIOSENSORS; REFRACTIVE INDEX VARIATIONS; SENSING APPLICATIONS;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

BIOPOLYMER;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GENETIC PROCEDURES; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICS; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; STAINING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOPOLYMERS; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 50049122706     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.012511     Document Type: Article

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