In recent years, the biosensor research community has made rapid progress in the
development of nanostructured materials capable of amplifying the interaction between light …

In our body, stem cells reside in a microenvironment termed the niche. While the exact
composition and, therefore, the level of complexity of a stem cell niche can vary significantly …

We report a pseudo-paper microfluidic chip based on patterned photonic nitrocellulose. The
photonic nitrocellulose is fabricated using self-assembled monodisperse SiO2 nanoparticles …

Optical sensors with a high figure of merit (FOM) for refractive index measurement can
substantially enhance detection performance. For guided mode resonance (GMR) sensors …

The photonic band gap (PBG) of conventional all-dielectric one-dimension (1D) photonic
crystal (PC) shifts towards the shorter wavelength (blueshift) as the incident angle increases …

Numerical simulations and analytical calculations are performed to support the design of
grating-coupled planar optical waveguides for biological sensing. Near cut-off and far from …

The interaction between nanoparticles and the electromagnetic fields associated with optical
nanostructures enables sensing with single-nanoparticle limits of detection and digital …

Light-beam-splitting characteristics are theoretically and experimentally studied in 2D
square-lattice photonic crystals (PhCs) with delicately designed and modulated output …

Delicate and quantifiable analysis of protein is essential for disease diagnosis, drug
screening and large-scaled study of proteins. Taking in consideration the recent trends and …

Dynamic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) holds great promise for speech-related studies
because of its potential to investigate velopharyngeal motion and physiological properties …