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Bloch Surface Waves on Dielectric Photonic Crystals for Biological Sensing

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering ((LNEE,volume 162))

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Biosensors based on surface plasmons have shown to be reliable and highly sensitive platforms. Here we investigate the feasibility and the potential of an alternative platform for biological sensing based on Bloch surface waves sustained by a one-dimensional photonic crystal made of dielectric materials.

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  1. Dipartimento di Scienza Applicata e Tecnologia, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy

    Mirko Ballarini, Francesca Frascella, Serena Ricciardi, Paola Rivolo, Pietro Mandracci, Fabrizio Giorgis & Emiliano Descrovi

  2. Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF, Jena, Germany

    Norbert Danz

  3. Dipartimento di Scienze Oncologiche, Università di Torino, Torino, Italy

    Lucia Napione & Federico Bussolino

  4. Dipartimento di Scienze di Base e Applicate per l’Ingegneria, SAPIENZA Università di Roma, Rome, Italy

    Lorenzo Dominici, Alberto Sinibaldi & Francesco Michelotti

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  1. Institute of Applied Physics IFAC-CNR, Firenze, Italy

    Francesco Baldini

  2. University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

    Arnaldo D’Amico

  3. University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

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  4. Inst for Microelectronics & Microsystems IMM-CNR, Lecce, Lecce, Italy

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  5. Department of Chemistry, Univ. of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

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  6. Inst for Microelectronics & Microsystems IMM-CNR, Napoli, Napoli, Italy

    Luca De Stefano

  7. Institute of Biophysics, IBF-CNR, Pisa, Pisa, Italy

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  8. DIEEI - Engineering Faculty, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

    Bruno Andò

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Ballarini, M. et al. (2014). Bloch Surface Waves on Dielectric Photonic Crystals for Biological Sensing. In: Baldini, F., et al. Sensors. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 162. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3860-1_18

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