Design of an optofluidic biosensor using the slow-light effect in photonic crystal structures

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 568-576

  Hosseinibalam, F ^a   Hassanzadeh, S ^a   Ebnali Heidari, A ^a   Karnutsch, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

^b KARLSRUHE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSENSORS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

A-RINGS; ARCHITECTURE-BASED; HIGH POTENTIAL; LIGHT EFFECTS; OPTOFLUIDIC; OPTOFLUIDIC BIOSENSOR; REFRACTIVE INDEX UNITS; SELECTIVE INFILTRATIONS;

SLOW LIGHT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GENETIC PROCEDURES; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTON; REFRACTOMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; OPTICAL DEVICES; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 84856821015     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.000568     Document Type: Article

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