Sensitivity enhancement in photonic crystal slab biosensors

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 22702-22714

  El Beheiry, Mohamed ^a   Liu, Victor ^b   Fan, Shanhui ^b   Levi, Ofer ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; BIOSENSORS; DESIGN; LIGHT REFRACTION; PHOTONIC DEVICES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; RESONANCE; SPECTROSCOPY;

ANALYTES; BIOSENSING; BIOSENSOR DESIGN; DIRECT ACCESS; MICRO-FLUIDIC DEVICES; MODAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL BEAMS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL SLAB; QUALITY FACTORS; REFRACTIVE INDEX SENSITIVITY; SENSITIVITY ENHANCEMENTS; SLAB DESIGN; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTON; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; CRYSTALLIZATION; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 78149379288     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.022702     Document Type: Article

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