Optical Biosensors: From Fundamental Optics to Diagnostic Applications
A Special Issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732) belonging to the section "Biophotonics and Biomedical Optics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2027 | Viewed by 197
Editors
Interests: magneto-optics; bio-magnetoplasmonics; magnetics; microstructure; magnetic anisotropy; bio-photonics; bio-optics; magneto-biology
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Interests: optical and plasmonic sensors; surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensing; photonic devices; optical communication; photonic spin hall effect-based sensors; fiber Bragg grating sensors; biosensors; nanomaterial-enabled optical sensing; artificial intelligence/machine-learning applications in photonic devices and communication
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are very pleased to invite you to contribute to the Special Issue “Optical Biosensors: From Fundamental Optics to Diagnostic Applications”. Optical biosensors utilize light–matter interactions for the detection of biological/biochemical changes, providing high sensitivity, fast response and, in many cases, label-free and real-time operation. Progress in photonics, plasmonics, nanophotonics, magneto-optics, optical materials and device engineering are providing new opportunities for more sensitive and miniaturized biosensing platforms. In particular, surface plasmon resonance and related optical sensing techniques are powerful tools for detecting refractive-index changes and molecular interactions at interfaces. The emerging nanostructured and two-dimensional materials bring new opportunities in improving sensitivity, selectivity, and detection limits.
This Special Issue seeks to bring together advances in fundamental optical mechanisms, materials and device design, sensor modeling and optimization, and emerging biomedical and diagnostic applications. Emphasis will be given to the correlation between optical phenomena and practical biosensor performance such as sensitivity, detection limit, stability, reproducibility and possible translation to diagnostic use.
This Special Issue invites original research articles and review articles. Areas of possible research include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Basic optical theories and light–matter interactions in biosensing;
- Propagating surface plasmon resonance (SPR) and localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) based biosensors;
- Magneto-optic SPR and magnetoplasmonic biosensors;
- Biosensing platforms in nanophotonics and plasmonics;
- Two-dimensional and advanced functional materials for optical biosensors;
- Optical fiber, waveguide, photonic-crystal and metasurface biosensors;
- Bio-sensing based on label-free and refractive index;
- Biological fluid analysis and biomarker detection;
- Optical biosensors for biomedical and diagnostic applications;
- Sensor sensitivity, selectivity, detection limit, stability and reproducibility;
- Modeling, simulation, design and optimization of optical biosensors;
- Integrated, miniaturized and point-of-care optical sensing technologies.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Conrad Rizal
Dr. Yogendra Kumar Prajapati
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- optical biosensors
- surface plasmon resonance
- magneto-optic surface plasmon resonance
- magnetoplasmonics
- nanophotonics
- plasmonic biosensors
- biomedical sensing
- biomarker detection
- label-free optical sensing
- diagnostic applications
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