Label-free sensing of ultralow-weight molecules with all-dielectric metasurfaces supporting bound states in the continuum

Silvia Romano; Gianluigi Zito; Stefania Torino; Giuseppe Calafiore; Erika Penzo; Giuseppe Coppola; Stefano Cabrini; Ivo Rendina; Vito Mocella

doi:10.1364/PRJ.6.000726

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