{"title":"Flexible Photonic Crystal Slabs for Microfluidic Integration","authors":"F. Kraft, M. Gerken","doi":"10.1109/fleps53764.2022.9781592","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Photonic crystal slabs (PCS) on glass substrates have been studied and used extensively as a label-free platform for biomarker detection. Therefore, photonic crystal slabs are a promising approach for biomarker detection with wearable flexible sensor systems. In this work we demonstrate a novel approach for creating flexible photonic crystal slabs (f-PCS) on the basis of nanostructure transfer with a transparent adhesive tape. We demonstrate a proof-of-concept system combining a flexible photonic crystal slab with a poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) microfluidic. The sensing approach is tested with refractive index measurements. We report limits of detection (LOD) for an f-PCS of 3.6 E-4 refractive index units (RIU) compared to 2.5 E-4 RIU for the corresponding rigid PCS.","PeriodicalId":221424,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Conference on Flexible and Printable Sensors and Systems (FLEPS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2022 IEEE International Conference on Flexible and Printable Sensors and Systems (FLEPS)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/fleps53764.2022.9781592","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Photonic crystal slabs (PCS) on glass substrates have been studied and used extensively as a label-free platform for biomarker detection. Therefore, photonic crystal slabs are a promising approach for biomarker detection with wearable flexible sensor systems. In this work we demonstrate a novel approach for creating flexible photonic crystal slabs (f-PCS) on the basis of nanostructure transfer with a transparent adhesive tape. We demonstrate a proof-of-concept system combining a flexible photonic crystal slab with a poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) microfluidic. The sensing approach is tested with refractive index measurements. We report limits of detection (LOD) for an f-PCS of 3.6 E-4 refractive index units (RIU) compared to 2.5 E-4 RIU for the corresponding rigid PCS.