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Nanophotonic Structures for Biosensing

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Nano-optical biosensors; Nano-optics biosensing

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One-dimensional, two-dimensional, or three-dimensional structures made of suitable materials, having dimensions ranging from few nanometers to few hundreds of nanometers in size, and said structures showing a well-defined interaction with light providing an optical transduction mechanism for detecting/revealing specific biomolecules in close proximity to the structure itself.

Overview

Optical biosensors [1] constitute powerful detection and analysis tools with wide applications in the biomedical domain. They can provide parallel detection within a single device. Generally speaking, there are two detection methods that are implemented in optical biosensing: fluorescence-based detection and label-free detection. Thanks to the recent advances of technological capabilities for the fabrication of nanometer-sized structures, most of the conventional techniques can be improved, and new original techniques have become...

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  1. DISAT – Dipartimento di Scienza Applicata e Tecnologia, Politecnico di Torino, C.so Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129, Torino, Italy

    Emiliano Descrovi & Francesca Frascella

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    Bharat Bhushan

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Descrovi, E., Frascella, F. (2015). Nanophotonic Structures for Biosensing. In: Bhushan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Nanotechnology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6178-0_241-2

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