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Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Photonic Solutions for Healthcare

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical Sensors".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 May 2024) | Viewed by 2128

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Instituto de Telecomunicações, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
Interests: optical fiber sensors; fiber Bragg gratings; Fabry-Perot interferometers; fiber sensors applications; biosensing
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Department of Dermatology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Interests: optical biosensors; integrated photonics; interferometry; photonic crystals; developing world diagnostics; tissue chips
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Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, Università Degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, 80125 Napoli, Italy
Interests: fiber optic sensors; fiber Bragg grating based sensors; optoelectronic devices and systems; monitoring system for high energy physics; NDT; SHM; dosimetry
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The increase in life expectancy has imposed on the scientific community the need to research and design new devices and sensing systems, aiming to promote a better quality of life for citizens. This goal can be achieved, for example, through the discovery of new drugs, systems that enable the detection of diseases at increasingly early stages, or even through systems helping to ensure that citizens live an autonomous and healthier life. Due to their performance characteristics and potential advantages of size, weight, power, and cost, in recent years, there has been an increasing study of photonics technologies for healthcare-focused sensing purposes. This issue aims to collect the latest scientific results and developments in photonic solutions for healthcare, covering innovative sensor configurations, all the associated sensing instrumentation, and emerging applications.

Potential topics include but are not limited to:

  • Optical fiber sensors and biosensors
  • Point-of care devices
  • Wearables biomedical sensors
  • Optical sensors in e-Health architectures
  • Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) for bioapplications
  • Cost-effective, miniaturized, selective, and multiparameter photonic devices

Dr. Nélia J. Alberto
Prof. Dr. Benjamin L. Miller
Dr. Francesco Fienga
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Analysis of Plasmonic Sensors Performance Realized by Exploiting Different UV-Cured Optical Adhesives Combined with Plastic Optical Fibers
by Francesco Arcadio, Chiara Marzano, Domenico Del Prete, Luigi Zeni and Nunzio Cennamo
Sensors 2023, 23(13), 6182; https://doi.org/10.3390/s23136182 - 6 Jul 2023
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Polymer-based surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensors can be used to realize simple, small-size, disposable, and low-cost biosensors for application in several fields, e.g., healthcare. The performance of SPR sensors based on optical waveguides can be changed by tuning several parameters, such as the [...] Read more.
Polymer-based surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensors can be used to realize simple, small-size, disposable, and low-cost biosensors for application in several fields, e.g., healthcare. The performance of SPR sensors based on optical waveguides can be changed by tuning several parameters, such as the dimensions and the shape of the waveguides, the refractive index of the core, and the metal nanofilms used to excite the SPR phenomenon. In this work, in order to develop, experimentally test, and compare several polymer-based plasmonic sensors, realized by using waveguides with different core refractive indices, optical adhesives and 3D printed blocks with a trench inside have been used. In particular, the sensors are realized by filling the blocks’ trenches (with two plastic optical fibers located at the end of these) with different UV-cured optical adhesives and then covering them with the same bilayer to excite the SPR phenomenon. The developed SPR sensors have been characterized by numerical and experimental results. Finally, in order to propose photonic solutions for healthcare, a comparative analysis has been reported to choose the best sensor configuration useful for developing low-cost biosensors. Full article
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