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标题：Optical integrated chips with micro and nanostructures for refractive index and SERS-based optical label-free sensing
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作者：Liu Liu ; Mingliang Jin ; Yaocheng Shi 等
期刊名称：Nanophotonics
印刷版ISSN：2192-8606
电子版ISSN：2192-8614
出版年度：2015
卷号：-1
期号：open-issue
页码：419-436
DOI：10.1515/nanoph-2015-0015
出版社：Walter de Gruyter GmbH
摘要：Label-free optical biosensing technologies have superior abilities of quantitative analysis, unmodified targets, and ultrasmall sample volume, compared to conventional fluorescence-label-based sensing techniques, in detecting various biomolecules. In this review article, we introduce our recent results in the field of evanescent-wavebased refractive index sensing and surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)-based sensing, both of which are promising platforms for label-free optical biosensors. First, silicon-on-insulator (SOI) nanowire waveguide and metallic surface plasmon resonance (SPR)-based refractive index sensing are discussed. In order to improve the detection limit, phase interrogation techniques are introduced to these types of sensors based on prism-coupled SPR and SOI microring resonators. A detection limit in the order of 10−6 refractive index unit is achieved. Detection of 16.7 pM anti-IgG is also demonstrated based on the SPR devices. Second, SERS substrates based on various nanometallic structures are discussed. Metallic nanowire arrays and inverted nanopyramids and grooves with a thin metal surface are fabricated based on anisotropic wetetching of silicon substrates. Both structures have demonstrated a Raman signal enhancement on the order of 107. In order to improve the extraction efficiency of the Raman signal at a high wave number, a nano-bowtie array substrate is fabricated, which exhibits double resonances at both the excitation wavelength and the desired Raman scattering wavelength. Experimental results have shown that this double-resonance structure can further enhance the received Raman signal, as compared to conventional SERS substrates with only one resonance at the excitation wavelength.