On-chip switching of a silicon nitride micro-ring resonator based on digital microfluidics platform

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 24762-24769

  Zuta, Yoav ^a   Goykhman, Ilya ^a   Desiatov, Boris ^a   Levy, Uriel ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROFLUIDICS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICON NITRIDE;

BIOSENSING; DIGITAL MICROFLUIDICS; DOPED SILICON; EFFECTIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; FABRICATION TECHNIQUE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT; LIQUID DROPLETS; MICRO DROPLETS; MICROOPTICAL DEVICES; MICRORING RESONATOR; ON CHIPS; TRANSMISSION SPECTRUMS;

DROP FORMATION;

SILICON DERIVATIVE; SILICON NITRIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS;

ELECTRODES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 78649715516     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.024762     Document Type: Article

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