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 …

Exploration and implementation of silicon (Si) photonics has surged in recent years since
both photonic component performance and photonic integration complexity have …

Photonic crystal (PC) cavities, which possess the advantages of compactness, flexible
design, and suitability for integration in a lab-on-a-chip system, are able to distinguish slight …

In this paper, a computational study was performed to design a compact and high sensitive
photonic crystal for the early detection of cancer cells. The plane wave expansion (PWE) …

A Bio-sensing platform based on an infiltrated photonic crystal ring shaped holes cavity-
coupled waveguide system is proposed for glucose concentration detection. Considering …

A miniaturized, high-sensitive, and high-precision gas sensor for the measurement of
methane concentration was realized in a cryptophane E infiltrated photonic crystal (PC) …

In this work, we design a new biosensor concept that uses a microcavity in 2D photonic
crystal (PhC) to sense small refractive index (RI) changes. The RI sensor is formed by a …

In this paper, tunable narrow bandwidth band-stop and band-pass optical filters for visible
light communication (VLC) are designed and numerically investigated using a photonic …

Optic and photonic sensing is a useful and novel technology for bio-sensing applications. In
this paper, we have numerically designed and investigated sensitive photonic crystal ring …

The transmission properties of one-dimensional photonic crystals (PCs) containing a
metamaterial (MM) defect layer are investigated using the transfer matrix method. The MM is …