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Silicon Microphotonic Waveguides for Biological...

Silicon Microphotonic Waveguides for Biological Sensing

Abstract

The advantages of the silicon-on-insulator (SOI) waveguide platform are examined for evanescent field (EF) based biological sensing. It is suggested that the high index contrast (HIC) inherent to SOI waveguides allows sensors fabricated in this material to demonstrate improved sensitivity over that of all other common planar waveguide platforms for the probing of thin biological layers.

Authors

Densmore A; Xu DX; Waldron P; Janz S; Delâge A; Cheben P

Pagination

pp. 15-18

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Publication Date

October 1, 2006

DOI

10.1109/metamat.2006.334984

Name of conference

2006 International Symposium on Biophotonics, Nanophotonics and Metamaterials

Associated Experts

Pavel Cheben

Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Engineering

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Fields of Research (FoR)

4605 Data Management and Data Science 46 Information and Computing Sciences 40 Engineering 4008 Electrical Engineering

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