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Basic Principles of Biosensing

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Recently, optical sensors have been improved extensively due to the rising need of sensing applications in different specialties such as, medicine, military, environment, food quality control. The improvement of the photonic technologies based on the CMOS compatible silicon-on-insulator (SOI) and photonic crystal structures improves the sensing performance significantly. This chapter presents the basic principles of the sensing process. Additionally, it introduces the different configurations of optical sensors based on working principle, sensor design, and detection purpose.

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  1. Center for Photonics and Smart Materials and Nanotechnology Engineering Program, Zewail City of Science and Technology, October Gardens, 6th of October City, Giza, Egypt

    Mohamed Farhat O. Hameed

  2. Mathematics and Engineering Physics Department, Faculty of Engineering, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt

    Mohamed Farhat O. Hameed

  3. Electronics and Communication Engineering Department, Akhbar Elyom Academy, 6th of October City, Egypt

    A. Samy Saadeldin

  4. Engineering Mathematics and Physics Department, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

    A. Samy Saadeldin & Essam M. A. Elkaramany

  5. Centre for Photonics and Smart Materials, Zewail City of Science and Technology, October Gardens, 6th of October City, Giza, Egypt

    S. S. A. Obayya

  6. Electronics and Communication Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt

    S. S. A. Obayya

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Hameed, M.F.O., Saadeldin, A.S., Elkaramany, E.M., Obayya, S.S.A. (2019). Basic Principles of Biosensing. In: Hameed, M., Obayya, S. (eds) Computational Photonic Sensors. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76556-3_5

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