Optical bio-chemical sensors on SNOW ring resonators

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 17575-17584

  Khorasaninejad, Mohammadreza ^a   Clarke, Nigel ^a   Anantram, M P ^b   Saini, Simarjeet Singh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL SENSORS; MONOLAYERS; NANOWIRES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SNOW; WAVEGUIDES;

BIO-CHEMICAL SENSOR; COMPACT DEVICES; HIGH INDEX CONTRAST; RING RESONATOR; SILICON NANOWIRES; SILICON ON INSULATOR; SURFACE ATTACHMENT;

OPTICAL RESONATORS;

BIOMATERIAL; NANOWIRE; SILICON;

ARTICLE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; NANOWIRES; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL PHENOMENA; REFRACTOMETRY; SILICON;

EID: 80052243941     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.017575     Document Type: Article

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