An overview on the properties and applications of polymer and inorganic planar 1D photonic
crystals fabricated from solution is provided here. In the last decades, photonic crystals …

Self-assembly offers unique possibilities for fabricating nanostructures, with different
morphologies and properties, typically from vapour or liquid phase precursors. Molecular …

Nanostructured materials premise to revolutionize the label-free biosensing of analytes for
clinical applications, leveraging the deeper interaction between materials and analytes with …

Strong coupling is a distinct light–matter interaction regime, in which the interaction is
manifested in coherent oscillations of energy between matter and a photonic subsystem …

Photonic crystal-based biosensors hold great promise as low-cost devices for real-time
monitoring of a variety of biotargets, for example, bacterial contaminants in food. Here, we …

Gold nanoparticle layers (AuNPLs) enable the coupling of morphological, optical, and
electrical properties of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) with tailored and specific surface …

Microlasers have drawn considerable attention for applications in future optoelectronic
nanoscience and nanotechnology, owing to the capability of scaling physical dimension of …

In this work, we report a study on two-dimensional SnSe nanoplates grown by chemical
vapor deposition and their applications in single nanoplate photodetectors with a high …

Molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) have recently emerged as robust and versatile
artificial receptors. MIP synthesis is carried out in liquid phase and optimized on planar …

The polarization of lasing, as a fundamental property related to the emission coherence of
microlasers, is one of the criteria for a high quality laser beam but has been rarely …