Towards Portable Nanophotonic Sensors
A range of nanophotonic sensors composed of different materials and device configurations have been developed over the past two decades. These sensors have achieved high performance in terms of sensitivity and detection limit. The size of onchip nanophotonic sensors is also small and they are regard...
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| description | A range of nanophotonic sensors composed of different materials and device configurations have been developed over the past two decades. These sensors have achieved high performance in terms of sensitivity and detection limit. The size of onchip nanophotonic sensors is also small and they are regarded as a strong candidate to provide the next generation sensors for a range of applications including chemical and biosensing for point-of-care diagnostics. However, the apparatus used to perform measurements of nanophotonic sensor chips is bulky, expensive and requires experts to operate them. Thus, although integrated nanophotonic sensors have shown high performance and are compact themselves their practical applications are limited by the lack of a compact readout system required for their measurements. To achieve the aim of using nanophotonic sensors in daily life it is important to develop nanophotonic sensors which are not only themselves small, but their readout system is also portable, compact and easy to operate. Recognizing the need to develop compact readout systems for onchip nanophotonic sensors, different groups around the globe have started to put efforts in this direction. This review article discusses different works carried out to develop integrated nanophotonic sensors with compact readout systems, which are divided into two categories; onchip nanophotonic sensors with monolithically integrated readout and onchip nanophotonic sensors with separate but compact readout systems. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a5a0b3baeb4845eaaa489a48d55301152022-12-22T02:56:47ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202019-04-01197171510.3390/s19071715s19071715Towards Portable Nanophotonic SensorsAbdul Shakoor0James Grant1Marco Grande2David. R. S. Cumming3Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UKSchool of Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8LT, UKDipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e dell’Informazione, Politecnico di Bari, 70125 Bari, ItalySchool of Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8LT, UKA range of nanophotonic sensors composed of different materials and device configurations have been developed over the past two decades. These sensors have achieved high performance in terms of sensitivity and detection limit. The size of onchip nanophotonic sensors is also small and they are regarded as a strong candidate to provide the next generation sensors for a range of applications including chemical and biosensing for point-of-care diagnostics. However, the apparatus used to perform measurements of nanophotonic sensor chips is bulky, expensive and requires experts to operate them. Thus, although integrated nanophotonic sensors have shown high performance and are compact themselves their practical applications are limited by the lack of a compact readout system required for their measurements. To achieve the aim of using nanophotonic sensors in daily life it is important to develop nanophotonic sensors which are not only themselves small, but their readout system is also portable, compact and easy to operate. Recognizing the need to develop compact readout systems for onchip nanophotonic sensors, different groups around the globe have started to put efforts in this direction. This review article discusses different works carried out to develop integrated nanophotonic sensors with compact readout systems, which are divided into two categories; onchip nanophotonic sensors with monolithically integrated readout and onchip nanophotonic sensors with separate but compact readout systems.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/19/7/1715optical chemical sensorsnanostructured materialsrefractive indexbiosensorslab on a chip |
| spellingShingle | Abdul Shakoor James Grant Marco Grande David. R. S. Cumming Towards Portable Nanophotonic Sensors Sensors optical chemical sensors nanostructured materials refractive index biosensors lab on a chip |
| title | Towards Portable Nanophotonic Sensors |
| title_full | Towards Portable Nanophotonic Sensors |
| title_fullStr | Towards Portable Nanophotonic Sensors |
| title_full_unstemmed | Towards Portable Nanophotonic Sensors |
| title_short | Towards Portable Nanophotonic Sensors |
| title_sort | towards portable nanophotonic sensors |
| topic | optical chemical sensors nanostructured materials refractive index biosensors lab on a chip |
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