Research Progresses on Theory and Experiments of Photonic Crystal Micronano Sensing Technology

Wang Chao; Sun Fujun; Fu Zhongyuan; Zhou Jian; Ding Zhaoxiang; Tian Huiping

doi:10.3788/AOS201838.0328003

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Acta Optica Sinica
Vol. 38, Issue 3, 328003 (2018)

Research Progresses on Theory and Experiments of Photonic Crystal Micronano Sensing Technology

Wang Chao, Sun Fujun, Fu Zhongyuan, Zhou Jian, Ding Zhaoxiang, and Tian Huiping^*

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Wang Chao, Sun Fujun, Fu Zhongyuan, Zhou Jian, Ding Zhaoxiang, Tian Huiping. Research Progresses on Theory and Experiments of Photonic Crystal Micronano Sensing Technology[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2018, 38(3): 328003 Copy Citation Text

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Schematics and electric field distributions of several typical 1D PC nanobeam cavities. (a) Dielectric-mode cavity[8]; (b) air-mode cavity[9]; (c) slot-based cavity[10]

Fig. 1. Schematics and electric field distributions of several typical 1D PC nanobeam cavities. (a) Dielectric-mode cavity[8]; (b) air-mode cavity[9]; (c) slot-based cavity[10]

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Fig. 2. Energy band diagram of dielectric-mode nanobeam cavity[8]

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Fig. 3. Energy band diagram of air-mode nanobeam cavity[8]

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Fig. 4. 1D nanobeam cavity PC sensors based on side-cavity-coupling. (a) Multiplexing sensor array with multiple nanobeams[61-63]; (b) dual-parameter sensor based on double nanobeam cavity cascading[64]

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Fig. 5. Design of 1D nanobeam cavity PC sensor array based on multi-cavity and multi-channel. (a) 32-channel parallel integrated sensor array[65]; (b) branch-cascaed additional filters[66]; (c) own FSR performance of each branch after direct optimization[67]

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Fig. 6. Designs of 2D PC sensor array based on multi-cavity and single-channel. (a) Series integrated sensor array[68-69]; (b)-(d) side-cavity-coupled integrated sensor array[70-71]

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Fig. 7. Designs of 2D slab PC sensor array based on multi-cavity and multi-channel. (a)-(c) Dua-channel sensor arrays[73-74]; (d) three-channel sensor arrays[75]; (e)-(f) four-channel sensor arrays[76-77]

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Fig. 8. Design of sensor arrays based on PC cavity and filter cascading. (a) From reference [78]; (b) from reference [79]

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Fig. 9. (a) 64-cavity integrated sensor array[80]; (b) on-chip multi-functional sensor platform[81]

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Reference	Q	Research type
[3]	256	Experiment
[4]	10⁵	Experiment
[5]	6.3×10⁷	Experiment
[6]	1.49×10⁵	Experiment
[7]	7.5×10⁵	Experiment
[8]	10⁹	Experiment

Table 1. Studies for improving Q factor value of nanobeam cavity

Reference	Q	Sensitivity /(nm·RIU^-1)	Detection limit /RIU	Analyte	Research type
[57]	7.1761×10⁴	902	10^-6	Liquid	Simulation
[58]	1.06×10⁴	>800	1.6×10^-7	Liquid	Experiment
[59]	5.5×10³	298	1.3×10^-6	Liquid	Experiment
[60]	1.8×10⁴	94.5	3×10^-6	Liquid	Experiment

Table 1. 0 2D slab PC structure with guided-mode resonance applied in sensing field

Reference	Q	Sensitivity	Analyte	Research type
[11]	3.6×10⁴	386 nm·RIU^-1	Glucose solution	Experiment
[12]	2.7×10⁴	269 nm·RIU^-1	Liquid	Experiment
[13]	10⁶	190 nm·RIU^-1	Gas	Simulation
[14]	10⁴	10^-5	Gas	Experiment
[15]	10⁶	98 nm·RIU^-1	Liquid	Experiment
[16]	1.3×10⁴	428 nm·RIU^-1	NaCl solution	Experiment
[17]	3.5×10⁴	58 nm·RIU^-1	Ternary liquid mixture	Experiment

Table 2. 1D PC dielectric-mode nanobeam cavity applied in sensing field

Referece	Q	Sensitivity /(nm·RIU^-1)	Analyte	Research type
[18]	2.5×10⁵	-	Nano-particle	Experiment
[19]	770	461	Liquid	Experiment
[9]	10⁴	537.8	Liquid	Simulation
[20]	10⁴	389	Liquid	Simulation
[21]	10⁵	252	Gas	Simulation

Table 3. 1D PC air-mode nanobeam cavity applied in sensing field

Reference	Q	Sensitivity /(nm·RIU^-1)	Analyte	Research type
[22]	3×10³	700	Sucrose solution	Experiment
[23]	10⁴	410	NaCl solution	Experiment
[24]	6.08×10⁶	460	Liquid	Simulation
[25]	10³	234	Gas	Experiment
[26]	10⁵	851	Gas	Simulation
[27]	4.5×10⁷	-	Polystyrene particles	Simulation
[28]	7×10³	451	Ethanol solution	Experiment
[10]	10⁷	900	Gas	Simulation
[29]	1.14×10⁷	451	Liquid	Simulation

Table 4. 1D PC slot-based nanobeam cavity applied in sensing field

Reference	Structure	Q	Sensitivity /(nm·RIU^-1)	Research type
[30]		2097	1017.98	Simulation
[31]		<50	2184	Experiment

Table 5. 1D PC surface-mode cavity applied in sensing field

Reference	Q	Research type
[32]	4.5×10⁴	Experiment
[33]	10⁵	Simulation
[34]	10⁶	Experiment
[35]	3×10³	Experiment
[36]	10³	Simulation
[37]	9.3×10³	Experiment
[38]	10⁶	Simulation

Table 6. 2D slab PC point-defect cavity with high quality factor

Reference	Q	Sensitivity	Analyte	Research type
[39]	about 3×10³	-	Bio-molecule	Simulation
[40]	2.676×10⁴	15 ng/mL	Biomacro-molecule	Experiment
[41]	1.4×10⁴	3.35 pg/mL	Antibiotic proteins combined with biotin	Experiment
[42]	2.966×10³	131.70 nm/RIU	Liquid	Simulation
[43]	-	-	Biomacro-molecule	Simulation
[44]	-	-	Biomacro-molecule	Experiment

Table 7. 2D PC point-defect cavity applied in biochemical sensing field

Reference	Q	Sensitivity /(nm·RIU^-1)	Analyte	Research type
[45]	6×10⁵	-	-	Experiment
[46]	3.82×10⁶-1.01×10⁶	171,360	Gas	Simulation
[47]	5×10⁴	150	Liquid	Experiment
[48]	2.6×10⁴	510	Gas	Experiment
[49]	2.5×10⁴	235	Liquid	Experiment