Advanced Optical Biosensors
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Biosensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 August 2019) | Viewed by 4019
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Interests: photonics; materials science; sensors; nanotechnology
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Dear Colleagues,
Optical biosensors offer appealing advantages over other types of biosensing devices. These include non-invasive, safe, and multi-dimensional (i.e., intensity, wavelength, phase, polarization) interrogation, high spatial resolution, noise-free information channels, ease of achieving 2-D array testing, the availability of well-established technologies from communication industries (e.g., lasers of almost any wavelength, detector arrays, micro-/nano-machining, waveguides and high-speed links), and the coincidence of optical frequencies with a wide range of physical properties of bio-related materials in nature. Their potential application areas include healthcare (medical diagnostics), environmental monitoring, food and agriculture control, defense, and security.
This Special Issue welcomes both reviews and original research articles in the field of optical biosensors. Topics include, but are not restricted to, surface plasmon resonance (SPR) biosensors, SPR imaging, localized SPR, evanescent wave fluorescence biosensors, bioluminescent biosensors, optical waveguide interferometric biosensors, ellipsometric biosensors, reflectometric interference spectroscopy biosensors, surface-enhanced Raman scattering biosensors, metasurface-based biosensors, and biosensing optical platforms such as lab-on-a-chip and optical fiber sensing. Fluorescent labelling, bioreceptor immobilization procedures, and the integration of synthetic receptors such as molecularly imprinted polymers into optical transducers, as well as novel concepts in both label-based and label-free schemes, and applications of this type of biosensor are also of interest. We invite and encourage your participation in this Special Issue.
Prof. Carlos Angulo Barrios
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- label-free optical biosensing
- label-based optical biosensing
- surface plasmon resonance
- surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy
- optical fiber sensor
- optical waveguide
- microelectromechanical systems
- fluorescence biosensing
- fluorescent labelling
- optical interferometry
- optical metasurfaces
- lab on a chip
- multiplexed detection
- bioreceptor immobilization
- synthetic receptors
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