Silicon-Based Optical Biosensors
A special issue of Chemosensors (ISSN 2227-9040). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical Chemical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2022) | Viewed by 2149
Special Issue Editors
Interests: silicon photonics; biophotonics; integrated optics; chemical sensors; optical fiber sensors
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Interests: nanomedicine; biomedical applications; antibacterial nanomaterials; nanoclusters; sensing; nanomaterials
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This special issue covers all topics in the field of silicon-based optical biosensors, a Special Issue for the Journal Chemosensors. Chemosensors is an international, scientific, peer-reviewed, open access journal on the science and technology of chemical sensors published quarterly online by MDPI.
A chemosensor is a molecular system for which the physiochemical properties change upon interaction with a chemical species in such a way as to produce a detectable signal. The goal of this Special Issue is to cover the latest advancements on silicon-based optical biosensors, which are a special kind of chemosensor that has received a lot of attention in the last decade.
Biosensors can foster the mature technology available in silicon-based platforms, and they can offer the possibility to propose a large variety of sensing components that could be produced in large scales at a very low cost, which opens many potential applications, for example: point-of-care in healthcare, environmental monitoring, safety monitoring, or even food industry.
In particular, the field of integrated optics based on silicon platforms is expected to be of crucial importance for the development of biosensing applications. In this Special Issue, we expect to receive original contributions on a series of topics around this theme, as listed below.
All types of studies are allowed, both theoretical and experimental. Design and characterization techniques that could be applied in the field of biosensing are welcome as well as reviews on a specific topic listed below.
Topics include (but are not limited to):
- Silicon photonics based biosensing;
- Silicon-compatible platforms for biosensing, such as silicon nitride or glass;
- Photonic techniques for biosensing;
- Photonic sensing and measurement;
- Biophotonics at large, based on silicon-compatible platforms; and
- Innovative applications of biosensing (spectroscopy, genomics, etc.).
On behalf of the Guest Editors and the Editor‐in‐Chief, we encourage you to submit your work for inclusion in this Special Issue. There is no page limit for the contributions. Therefore, if you have struggled to find a place to publish a comprehensive study with detailed results, Chemosensors is the perfect place for it.
Dr. Philippe Velha
Dr. Tsung-Rong Kuo
Guest Editor
If you want to learn more information or need any advice, you can contact the Special Issue Editor Tammy Zhang via <[email protected]> directly.
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- biophotonics
- integrated optics
- silicon photonics
- silicon-compatible sensors
- biosensors
- optical biosensors
- chemical sensors
- sensor design and characterization
