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Nano-structured Silicon Optical Sensors

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Porous silicon, a material produced by a simple electrochemical etch process on n- or p-type silicon, has generated considerable interest for its photophysical properties ever since its discovery in the late 1950s. The last decade, in particular, has seen a tremendous amount of research in the use of porous silicon for the construction of label-free optical biosensors. This chapter gives an overview of the broad range of three-dimensional matrix structures that can be made in porous silicon, and their uses in biosensing. As many of these photonic structures are “one-dimensional photonic bandgap” devices, I also discuss the next dimension in sensing with silicon–two-dimensional photonic bandgap structures.

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Abbreviations

AIR:

Arrayed imaging reflectometry

BSA:

Bovine serum albumin

(EO)6:

Hexaethylene glycol

FFT:

Fast fourier transform

GlnBP:

Glutamine binding protein

GST:

Glutathione-S-transferase

OSPA:

Orthogonal subspace signal processing algorithm

PBG:

Photonic band gap

PMMA:

Polymethyl methacrylate

PSi:

Porous silicon

RIFS:

Reflective interferometric spectroscopy

RIFTS:

Reflective interferometric fourier transform spectroscopy

TNBS:

Trinitrobenzene sulfonic acid

TNT:

Trinitrotoluene

TWTCP:

Tetra tryptophan ter cyclopentane

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Miller, B.L. (2010). Nano-structured Silicon Optical Sensors. In: Zourob, M., Lakhtakia, A. (eds) Optical Guided-wave Chemical and Biosensors II. Springer Series on Chemical Sensors and Biosensors, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02827-4_1

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