Review
Optics
Lu Cai, Shang-wen Li, Fu-cheng Xiang, Jun Liu, Qiang Liu
Summary: This paper provides a detailed introduction to the various resonance phenomena in microcavities and their applications in physics, chemistry, and biology detection. It particularly focuses on the role of Fano resonance in improving sensing performance and the interference effect observed in the spectrum. The theoretical mechanism of Fano resonance is analyzed and the current methods and applications of Fano resonance in microcavities are summarized. Finally, the existing problems and development prospects of this sensor are discussed.
OPTICS AND LASER TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Review
Chemistry, Analytical
Xuyang Zhao, Zhihe Guo, Yi Zhou, Junhong Guo, Zhiran Liu, Yuxiang Li, Man Luo, Xiang Wu
Summary: This article reviews the advantages and applications of whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) microbubble resonators as optical sensors. It discusses their potential for chemical and biological sensing, as well as physical sensing. The challenges of rapid production and practical applications of WGM microbubble resonators are also addressed.
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Chencheng Zhang, Shengli Pu, Zijian Hao, Boyu Wang, Min Yuan, Yuxiu Zhang
Summary: A novel and compact magnetic field sensor is proposed and experimentally investigated in this study. The sensor consists of a tapered single mode fiber coupled with a nanostructured magnetic fluid-infiltrated photonic crystal fiber, which is easy to fabricate. The response of magnetic fluid to magnetic field is utilized to measure the intensity of magnetic field.
Article
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Bo Jiang, Yuchan Hu, Linhao Ren, Han Zhou, Lei Shi, Xinliang Zhang
Summary: Large anti-Stokes lasing can be achieved through multi-photon upconversion processes using rare earth elements. This study demonstrates the four- and five-photon upconversion lasing from rare earth elements under continuous-wave pump and room temperature conditions for the first time. The microlaser exhibits low thresholds and good stability of lasing intensity for practical applications, providing a prospect for high-performance short-wavelength lasers.
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Jun Ruan, Dan Guo, Kun Ge, Zhiyang Xu, Fangyuan Liu, Tianrui Zhai
Summary: By inkjet printing high-refractive-index nanoparticles on the designated position of lasing microfiber arrays, the effective refractive index of the microcavities can be regulated, allowing for a simple encoding process to be conducted within a short period of time. Additionally, encapsulating the encoded microfiber arrays in polydimethylsiloxane reduces scattering loss and environmental interference, leading to the realization of a printable encryption chip.
Article
Physics, Applied
Yunfeng Liang, Hai Zhu, Huying Zheng, Ziying Tang, Yaqi Wang, Haiyuan Wei, Ruijiang Hong, Xuchun Gui, Yan Shen
Summary: The research findings indicate that with an increase in the cavity size, the competition between different orders of lasing modes will become more intense, with a significant polarization dependence for high-order whispering gallery mode (WGM) lasing. Furthermore, the competition of WGM lasing modes is strongly influenced by the diameter of cavities and excitation intensities.
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Subha Jana, Xiangzhen Xu, Andrey Klymchenko, Andreas Reisch, Thomas Pons
Summary: The Whispering gallery mode (WGM) microcavities are potential candidates in biosensing applications as their resonance wavelengths shift with changes in the refractive index. They offer high-quality resonance modes and accessible surface functionalities, making them promising for molecular assays, but their high sensitivity also makes them inherently unstable. The WGM resonances are also shown to strongly enhance fluorescence energy transfer between donors and acceptors, providing a potentially powerful class of biosensors combining sensitivity and simple detection schemes.
Article
Physics, Applied
Jiaxin Yu, Liquan Yang, Fuxing Gu
Summary: A combination of a microsphere with a metal substrate has been proposed to create a low-loss cavity, reducing cavity size by 24%. The substrate-modulated cavity has shown higher confinement and Purcell factors, indicating potential for high-performance compact lasers.
APPLIED PHYSICS EXPRESS
(2021)
Article
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Zhiyi Yuan, Xin Cheng, Tsungyu Li, Yunke Zhou, Yifan Zhang, Xuerui Gong, Guo-En Chang, Muhammad D. Birowosuto, Cuong Dang, Yu-Cheng Chen
Summary: Phycobiliproteins, a class of light-harvesting proteins found in cyanobacteria and microalgae, have attracted significant interest in bioenergy and sustainable devices due to their ability to convert light into electricity. A novel scheme has been proposed to enhance biological light-harvesting through light-matter interactions at the biointerface of whispering-gallery modes. By utilizing microdroplets as a carrier for light-harvesting biomaterials, strong local electric field enhancement and photon confinement at the cavity interface led to significantly enhanced biophotoelectricity.
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
(2021)
Review
Optics
Francesco Dell'Olio, Judith Su, Thomas Huser, Virginie Sottile, Luis Enrique Cortes-Hernandez, Catherine Alix-Panabieres
Summary: Recent advances in biosensing technologies have opened up new possibilities for liquid biopsies, allowing clinicians to detect extremely low concentrations of tumor biomarkers in accessible body fluids. Photonics is becoming an increasingly attractive enabling technology for liquid biopsies due to its advantages in terms of compactness, immunity to external disturbance, and ultrahigh spatial resolution. Researchers have made significant progress in using fluorescent labels, label-free techniques, super-resolution microscopy, surface plasmon resonance, surface-enhanced Raman scattering, and whispering gallery mode resonators for liquid biopsy applications.
LASER & PHOTONICS REVIEWS
(2021)
Article
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Yinzhou Yan, Jing He, Mengyuan Wang, Lixue Yang, Yijian Jiang
Summary: Flexible UCNP-embedded film coupled with a microsphere photonic superlens (MPS) can achieve giant UCL enhancement. The pathways of MPS-enhanced UCL include Mie-resonant nanofocusing, optical whispering-gallery modes (WGMs), and the directional antenna effect. The contribution of optical resonance in the MPS to suppressing nonradiative transition and thermal quenching is experimentally validated.
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
(2022)
Article
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Preksha Tiwari, Anna Fischer, Markus Scherrer, Daniele Caimi, Heinz Schmid, Kirsten E. Moselund
Summary: Single-mode emission and wavelength stability of on-chip photonic applications using III-V based whispering gallery mode cavities on Si can be achieved with the use of Au nanorod antennae. By properly choosing the antenna size and positioning, side modes can be suppressed, allowing for single-mode emission over a wide excitation range. The emission wavelength remains dominant even at different temperatures.
Article
Optics
Botao Fu, Renhong Gao, Jintian Lin, Ni Yao, Haisu Zhang, Min Wang, Lingling Qiao, Wei Fang, Ya Cheng
Summary: This study reveals an effective and controllable mode trimming and clustering mechanism in microresonators, leading to the generation of polygon and star modes. Various modes are observed in sequence within a single microresonator by tuning the excitation wavelength or varying the coupling position.
LASER & PHOTONICS REVIEWS
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Nikolaos Farmakidis, Hao Yu, June Sang Lee, Johannes Feldmann, Mengyun Wang, Yuhan He, Samarth Aggarwal, Bowei Dong, Wolfram H. P. Pernice, Harish Bhaskaran
Summary: Integrated photonic circuits (PICs) have gained significant attention and commercial success in the past decade. However, the spectral characteristics of high-quality resonances in PICs are sensitive to small variations in fabrication and material constants, limiting their applicability. In this study, we propose a scalable solution using existing lithography tools to permanently modulate the waveguide's effective index by exploiting the volume shrinkage exhibited by certain polymers during the semiconductor fabrication process. This technique enables broadband and lossless tuning, making it suitable for various applications in optical computing, telecommunications, and free-space optics.
Article
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Sivaraman Subramanian, Hannah B. L. Jones, Simona Frustaci, Samuel Winter, Marc W. van der Kamp, Vickery L. Arcus, Christopher R. Pudney, Frank Vollmer
Summary: This paper presents a label-free gold nanoparticle-based single-molecule optical platform for studying single enzymes. The experimental results show that this method can accurately track enzyme turnover as a function of conformational changes, providing insights into the relationship between enzyme activity and thermodynamics. Additionally, the study demonstrates that the physical model MMRT is a powerful tool for understanding enzyme temperature dependencies and dynamics at the single-molecule level.
ACS APPLIED NANO MATERIALS
(2021)
Article
Optics
Bruno Lorenzi, Yoichiro Tsurimaki, Akihiro Kobayashi, Masayuki Takashiri, Svetlana Boriskina
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Wonmi Ahn, B. S. Simpkins
Summary: This study explores the Raman scattering response of a PMMA carbonyl band under vibrational strong coupling in a Fabry-Perot cavity, revealing features such as softening and a small dip near the fundamental vibrational frequency. These effects are attributed to upper and lower polaritons dispersing over the collection angle, as confirmed by control measurements and modeling.
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
(2021)
Article
Optics
Rabeb Layouni, Michael Dubrovsky, Mengdi Bao, Haejun Chung, Ke Du, Svetlana Boriskina, Sharon M. Weiss, Diedrik Vermeulen
Summary: The experimental implementation of the high contrast cleavage detection (HCCD) mechanism using porous silicon (PSi) interferometer sensors demonstrated significant optical signal amplification. Results showed a clear path to achieving real-time, highly sensitive readout for a broad range of biological diagnostic assays via nucleic acid cleavage triggered by specific molecular binding events.
Article
Optics
Haejun Chung, Svetlana Boriskina
Summary: This research demonstrates a single-frequency, fixed-angle PSi-based biosensor using a high-contrast reporter cleavage detection technique through large-scale computational inverse design. The optimized design utilizes cleavage-induced PSi effective index variations for detection at a single frequency and fixed angle, paving the way for developing new or redesigned point-of-care biosensor systems incorporating cleavage-based detection schemes.
Article
Optics
Michael Dubrovsky, Morgan Blevins, Svetlana Boriskina, Diedrik Vermeulen
Summary: This study evaluates the performance of an integrated microring photonic biosensor using the high contrast cleavage detection (HCCD) mechanism. The HCCD sensors make use of dramatic optical signal amplification caused by the cleavage of high-contrast nanoparticle reporters, providing advantages in detection specificity and signal amplification over conventional target-capture detection techniques.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Matteo Alberghini, Seongdon Hong, L. Marcelo Lozano, Volodymyr Korolovych, Yi Huang, Francesco Signorato, S. Hadi Zandavi, Corey Fucetola, Ihsan Uluturk, Michael Y. Tolstorukov, Gang Chen, Pietro Asinari, Richard M. Osgood, Matteo Fasano, Svetlana V. Boriskina
Summary: Polyethylene has emerged as a promising material for wearable textiles, offering high infrared transparency and adjustable visible opacity for efficient cooling of the human body. These PE fabrics are sustainable, lightweight, low-cost, recyclable, and have a low environmental footprint. By engineering PE fibers and fabrics, efficient water wicking, fast-drying performance, and excellent stain resistance can be achieved, contributing to reduced energy and water consumption in the textile industry.
NATURE SUSTAINABILITY
(2021)
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Simo Pajovic, Yoichiro Tsurimaki, Xin Qian, Svetlana Boriskina
Summary: Broken inversion and time reversal symmetries affect the electromagnetic wave modes supported by continuous media, influencing thermal radiation and controlling radiative heat, linear momentum, and angular momentum transfer. Exploring thermal radiation in materials with broken inversion and time reversal symmetries can lead to novel methods of thermal management, tunability, and object manipulation at short length scales.
OPTICAL MATERIALS EXPRESS
(2021)
Review
Optics
Morgan G. Blevins, Alvaro Fernandez-Galiana, Milo J. Hooper, Svetlana V. Boriskina
Summary: The limitations of conventional biosensing techniques highlight the urgent need for new platform technologies that can be quickly modified to adapt to new pathogens, enabling rapid deployment and mass distribution of biosensors.
Article
Thermodynamics
Matteo Alberghini, Svetlana V. Boriskina, Pietro Asinari, Matteo Fasano
Summary: Passive devices based on water wicking and evaporation offer a sustainable alternative, and a comprehensive theoretical model has been proposed in this work to investigate the wetting and drying performance of hydrophilic porous materials. The model was validated against experiments and employed in three application cases to study the capillary properties of textiles, thermal performance of materials, and design of porous components for water desalination.
APPLIED THERMAL ENGINEERING
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Hengyi Lu, Wen Shi, James H. Zhang, Amylynn C. Chen, Weixin Guan, Chuxin Lei, Julia R. Greer, Svetlana Boriskina, Guihua Yu
Summary: Atmospheric water harvesting (AWH) technology, which extracts moisture from the air to generate clean water, is a promising strategy. This study proposes a LiCl-incorporating polyacrylamide hydrogel (PAM-LiCl) for effective water harvesting in arid environments, with high water uptake and fast sorption kinetics.
ADVANCED MATERIALS
(2022)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Lisha Zhang, Man Yui Leung, Svetlana Boriskina, Xiaoming Tao
Summary: Textiles contribute 5-10% of global greenhouse gas emissions throughout their life cycle and have a significant impact on water pollution due to the release of microplastics and chemicals. This article examines the latest technological developments aimed at addressing these issues and analyzes their alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals outlined in the United Nations Agenda 2030, particularly regarding natural resource utilization, energy consumption, and environmental impacts. A systematic analytical framework is utilized to identify and elucidate impactful technologies, along with discussions on future directions for accelerating the green transformation of textiles.
NATURE SUSTAINABILITY
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Carlos D. Diaz-Marin, Diane Li, Fernando J. Vazquez-Cosme, Simo Pajovic, Hyeongyun Cha, Youngsup Song, Cameron Kilpatrick, Geoffrey Vaartstra, Chad T. Wilson, Svetlana Boriskina, Evelyn N. Wang
Summary: In this study, we successfully fabricated 2D colloidal crystals using capillary transfer technique, achieving nano-to-micro feature sizes spanning 2 orders of magnitude and on challenging substrates. We also developed a capillary peeling model to explain the underlying transfer physics. This approach is highly versatile, of good quality, and simple, thus expanding the possibilities of colloidal self-assembly and enhancing the performance of applications using colloidal crystals.
Article
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Haejun Chung, Junjeong Park, Svetlana Boriskina
Summary: Integrated silicon photonic waveguide biosensors have shown great potential for low-cost point-of-care diagnostic due to efficient device functionalization and simple scalable manufacturing. By using computational inverse design and high-contrast probe cleavage detection (HCCD) technique, the proposed biosensors demonstrate high sensitivity and low sensitivity to noise.
Proceedings Paper
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Ahasanul Haque, Nusrat Alim, Evgeny Morozov, Neda Aboutorab, Svetlana Boriskina, Andrey Miroshnichenko, Haroldo T. Hattori
2020 CONFERENCE ON LASERS AND ELECTRO-OPTICS PACIFIC RIM (CLEO-PR)
(2020)
Proceedings Paper
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Nusrat Alim, Svetlana Boriskina, Ahasanul Haque, Haroldo T. Hattori, Evgeny Morozov, Andrey Miroshnichenko
2020 IEEE PHOTONICS CONFERENCE (IPC)
(2020)