Nanophotonic biosensors harnessing van der Waals materials

Sang-Hyun Oh; Hatice Altug; Xiaojia Jin; Tony Low; Steven J. Koester; Aleksandar P. Ivanov; Joshua B. Edel; Phaedon Avouris; Michael S. Strano

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-23564-4

Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Nanophotonic biosensors harnessing van der Waals materials

Sang-Hyun Oh,
Hatice Altug,
Xiaojia Jin,
Tony Low,
Steven J. Koester,
Aleksandar P. Ivanov,
Joshua B. Edel,
Phaedon Avouris,
Michael S. Strano

Affiliations

Sang-Hyun Oh: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota
Hatice Altug: Institute of Bioengineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Xiaojia Jin: Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tony Low: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota
Steven J. Koester: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota
Aleksandar P. Ivanov: Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London
Joshua B. Edel: Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London
Phaedon Avouris: IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Michael S. Strano: Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23564-4
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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This review presents an overview of scenarios where van der Waals (vdW) materials provide unique advantages for nanophotonic biosensing applications. The authors discuss basic sensing principles based on vdW materials, advantages of the reduced dimensionality as well as technological challenges.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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