Optical Sensors for Advanced Biomedical Applications
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 February 2025 | Viewed by 443
Special Issue Editors
Interests: lab-on-a-chip; optical microdevices; integrated optics; sensors and actuators; spectrophotometry
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Interests: lab-on-a-chip; organ-on-a-chip; microsensors and mi-croactuators; integrated optics; microelectronics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the last few decades, significant achievements have been accomplished in the field of optical sensors, namely in novel detection approaches, biosensing, microfabrication technologies, and integration in biomedical devices, featuring significant advancements in terms of functionality, versatility, and integration capabilities. Such improvements have revolutionized and tailored new applications of these sensors in the areas of medical diagnostics and therapeutics, lab-on-a-chip and organ-on-a-chip devices, monitoring of microfluidic environments, biomedical research, biotechnology, and environmental monitoring.
In this Special Issue, we welcome submissions (review articles, original research papers, and brief communications) contributing to the latest advances and challenges in optical sensors for advanced biomedical applications. Both experimental and simulation studies may be considered, aiming to report research and progress in their integration in the fields of, but not limited to, lab- and organ-on-a-chip devices, sensing and control systems for microfluidics, diagnosis and therapeutics, microfabrication of optical sensor devices, and the modeling and simulation of optical microsystems.
Dr. Susana O. Catarino
Dr. Graça Minas
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- diagnostics and therapeutics
- integrated optics
- lab-on-a-chip
- microelectronics
- optics
- sensors
- modeling and simulation
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