Thanks to advanced semiconductor microfabrication technology, chip-scale integration and
miniaturization of lab-on-a-chip components, silicon-based optical biosensors have made …

Photonic crystals are nanoscale structures that affect the motion of photons. The strong light
limitation in photonic crystals and the adjustment of its structural parameters have led to the …

The application of portable, easy‐to‐use and highly sensitive lab‐on‐a‐chip biosensing
devices for real‐time diagnosis could offer significant advantages over current analytical …

This review provides an insight into the recent developments of photonic crystal (PhC)-
based devices for sensing and imaging, with a particular emphasis on biosensors. We focus …

We review the most important achievements published in the last five years in the field of
silicon-based optical biosensors. We focus specially on label-free optical biosensors and …

Photonic sensing is a novel technology and accurate measurement for biosensing
applications. The present work proposes a defective one-dimensional photonic crystal (1D …

This review covers photonic crystal cavities (PCCs) and their applications in optical sensors,
with a particular focus on the structures of different PCCs. For each kind of optical sensor …

Two photonic crystal optical refractive index sensors have been proposed in this paper.
These sensors can be used for detection of basal cell cancer. A rod-type square lattice of …

Nanophotonics, manipulating light–matter interactions at the nanoscale, is an appealing
technology for diversified biochemical and physical sensing applications. Guided-wave …

This review provides a perspective on porous silicon (pSi)–based nanomaterials including
nanoparticles, nanowires, and thin films, that are currently being used in advanced therapy …