Recent Advances in Microfluidics-Integrated Optical Biosensors
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 April 2025) | Viewed by 7115
Special Issue Editor
Interests: integrated optics; optical biosensors; microfluidics; microfabrication; label free detection; electrooptical sensors; dielectrophoresis
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Dear Colleagues,
The emergence of integrated electronics marks the beginning of the integrated devices era. To successfully integrate them, parts should be smaller and smaller, which has led us to the microworld. The technology of creating microelectronics has brought the strong development of photolithography and photoresists. Some researchers have found that this know-how can be used for building integrated optical waveguides and molds for soft lithography to create microchannels as the building blocks of microfluidics. Later, it turned out that integrated optics and microfluidics can be combined. Recently, the interdisciplinary sciences are on the rise. One of them is Biophysics with its really booming field: biosensors. Here are just some examples of their superiority to the traditional techniques: label-free detection (less cost, shorter time, no or minimal demand on central laboratory services), and less sample volume is required.
We have this Special Issue for gathering the recent advances in the blooming field of integrated optical biosensors and their applications. Manuscripts are warmly welcome that report on the newest advances on topics, included but not limited to:
- Label-free detection;
- All optical biosensors;
- Integrated optical sensory devices;
- Evanescent field-based biosensors (ATR);
- Surface plasmon resonance sensors;
- Bragg Grating Fiber sensors (FBG);
- Integrated optical microcavity sensors.
Dr. Sándor Valkai
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biosensors
- label-free detection
- evanescent wave sensor
- integrated optical sensory devices
- lab-on-a-chip devices
- FBG (Bragg Grating Fiber)
- surface plasmon resonance
- ATR
- leaky waveguide
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