Advanced Waveguide Based LOC Biosensors: A Minireview
This mini review features contemporary advances in mid-infrared (MIR) thin-film waveguide technology and on-chip photonics, promoting high-performance biosensing platforms. Supported by recent developments in MIR thin-film waveguides, it is expected that label-free assimilated MIR sensing platforms...
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| author | Muzafar A. Kanjwal Amal Al Ghaferi |
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| description | This mini review features contemporary advances in mid-infrared (MIR) thin-film waveguide technology and on-chip photonics, promoting high-performance biosensing platforms. Supported by recent developments in MIR thin-film waveguides, it is expected that label-free assimilated MIR sensing platforms will soon supplement the current sensing technologies for biomedical diagnostics. The state-of-the-art shows that various types of waveguide material can be utilized for waveguide spectroscopic measurements in MIR. However, there are challenges to integrating these waveguide platforms with microfluidic/Lab-on-a-Chip (LOC) devices, due to poor light–material interactions. Graphene and its analogs have found many applications in microfluidic-based LOC devices, to address to this issue. Graphene-based materials possess a high conductivity, a large surface-to-volume ratio, a smaller and tunable bandgap, and allow easier sample loading; which is essential for acquiring precise electrochemical information. This work discusses advanced waveguide materials, their advantages, and disease diagnostics with MIR thin-film based waveguides. The incorporation of graphene into waveguides improves the light–graphene interaction, and photonic devices greatly benefit from graphene’s strong field-controlled optical response. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6cc87d4410924267b8562392273dc6b32023-12-01T22:41:07ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202022-07-012214544310.3390/s22145443Advanced Waveguide Based LOC Biosensors: A MinireviewMuzafar A. Kanjwal0Amal Al Ghaferi1Mechanical Engineering Department, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi 127788, United Arab EmiratesMechanical Engineering Department, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi 127788, United Arab EmiratesThis mini review features contemporary advances in mid-infrared (MIR) thin-film waveguide technology and on-chip photonics, promoting high-performance biosensing platforms. Supported by recent developments in MIR thin-film waveguides, it is expected that label-free assimilated MIR sensing platforms will soon supplement the current sensing technologies for biomedical diagnostics. The state-of-the-art shows that various types of waveguide material can be utilized for waveguide spectroscopic measurements in MIR. However, there are challenges to integrating these waveguide platforms with microfluidic/Lab-on-a-Chip (LOC) devices, due to poor light–material interactions. Graphene and its analogs have found many applications in microfluidic-based LOC devices, to address to this issue. Graphene-based materials possess a high conductivity, a large surface-to-volume ratio, a smaller and tunable bandgap, and allow easier sample loading; which is essential for acquiring precise electrochemical information. This work discusses advanced waveguide materials, their advantages, and disease diagnostics with MIR thin-film based waveguides. The incorporation of graphene into waveguides improves the light–graphene interaction, and photonic devices greatly benefit from graphene’s strong field-controlled optical response.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/22/14/5443mid-infraredwaveguidesLOC devicesgraphene incorporation |
| spellingShingle | Muzafar A. Kanjwal Amal Al Ghaferi Advanced Waveguide Based LOC Biosensors: A Minireview Sensors mid-infrared waveguides LOC devices graphene incorporation |
| title | Advanced Waveguide Based LOC Biosensors: A Minireview |
| title_full | Advanced Waveguide Based LOC Biosensors: A Minireview |
| title_fullStr | Advanced Waveguide Based LOC Biosensors: A Minireview |
| title_full_unstemmed | Advanced Waveguide Based LOC Biosensors: A Minireview |
| title_short | Advanced Waveguide Based LOC Biosensors: A Minireview |
| title_sort | advanced waveguide based loc biosensors a minireview |
| topic | mid-infrared waveguides LOC devices graphene incorporation |
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