Silicon-Based Optical Sensors
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2023) | Viewed by 4442
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Silicon photonics has unrivalled potential to enable low-cost, mass manufacturing of photonic components by leveraging the already huge investments made in computer chip foundries over the last half-century. Silicon-based optical sensors can provide truly disruptive technologies by enabling system-on-a-chip, lab-on-a-chip, and sensor-fusion-on-a-chip solutions for the automotive, security, pharmaceutical, medical, agriculture, and environmental monitoring industries, to name a few. These technologies could even find their way into future smartphones and will form an essential part of the Internet of Things.
In this issue, our goal is to highlight the various types of silicon-based optical sensors that have been demonstrated, such as absorption, reflectometry, surface plasmon, cavity resonance, interferometry, etc. We are interested in bulk sensors and surface sensors, as well as integrated photonic waveguide sensors based on refractive index shift or direct optical absorption.
Contributions are not limited purely to silicon, but also silicon-compatible materials such as germanium, silicon germanium, silicon nitride, and silicon oxide, or which are derived by modifications of silicon, such as porous silicon and amorphous silicon. Both review articles and original research papers relating to silicon-based optical sensors are sought.
Dr. Kevin GallacherGuest Editor
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Keywords
- Imaging sensors
- Micro-optical–electrical–mechanical system sensors
- Optical pressure sensors
- Biosensors
- Integrated waveguide sensors
- Microcavity sensors
- Interferometer sensors
- Raman sensors
- Atomic/molecular absorption sensors
- Porous silicon sensors
- Silicon germanium sensors
- Silica on silicon sensors
- Silicon oxynitride sensors
- Silicon nitride sensors
