Recent advances in fabrication and processing methods have spurred many breakthroughs
in the field of nanostructures that provide novel ways of manipulating light interaction on a …

Photonic crystal technology has attracted large interest in the last years. The possibility to
generate highly sensitive sensor elements with photonic crystal structures is very promising …

Microelectromechanical system (MEMS) technology, and surface micromachining in
particular, have led to the development of miniaturized optical devices with a substantial …

Refractive index sensitivity of guided resonances in photonic crystal slabs is analyzed. We
show that modal properties of guided resonances strongly affect spectral sensitivity and …

We introduce a novel sensor scheme combining nano-photonics and nano-fluidics on a
single platform through the use of free-standing photonic crystals. By harnessing nano-scale …

We investigate narrowband transmission filters based on subwavelength-grating reflectors
at normal incidence. Computational results show that the filtering is realized through …

A single-layer guided-mode resonance (SGMR) structure as a refractive index sensor is
proposed and experimentally demonstrated with enhanced sensing ability. The sensitivity …

In this work, a two-dimensional grating structure based on the metal assisted guided-mode
resonance (MAGMR) effect is proposed, which can be used for near infrared band sensing …

There is a strong need for low-cost biosensors to enable rapid, on-site analysis of biological,
biomedical, or chemical substances. We propose a platform for label-free optical biosensors …

Photonic crystals and plasmonic nanohole arrays are the conventional substrates for label-
free biodetection applications. In this article, we readdressed these systems in terms of their …