Designing real-time biosensors and chemical sensors based on symmetrical photonic crystal heterostructures

Subject Areas : Optical Biosensors

maryam  sharifi ¹ (Faculty of physics, Tabriz University, Tabriz, Iran)
Habib  Tajalli ² (Biophotonics Research Center,Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University)
Hamid  Pashaei Adl ³ (University of Valencia)
Payman  Tajalli ⁴ (Germany)

Received: 2021-11-03 Accepted : 2022-02-26 Published : 2021-07-01

Keywords: Photonic crystals, Biosensor, Transfer matrix method, Topological Edge Modes, Light-Matter interaction,

Abstract :

In this paper, we introduce and analytically demonstrate a novel biosensor based on the light-matter interaction in a classic topological photonic crystal (PC) heterostructure, which consists of two opposite-facing 5-period PCs separated by a microfluidic channel. Because of the excitation of topological edge mode (TEM) at the interface of the two PCs, the strong coupling between incident light and TEM produces a high-quality resonance peak, which can be used to detect very small changes in the refractive index of biomaterials such as Jurkat Cells inside the microfluidic channel. The proposed biosensor has a sensitivity as high as 240 nm/RIU and figure of merit (FOM) higher than 250.

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