Tunable Microstructured Silicon Waveguide Based Fabry-Perot Interferometric (Si-FPI) Label-Free Bio-Sensor for Cancer Detection
摘要
The compatibility of both silicon on insulator (SOI) and phase-changing materials such as vanadium dioxide (VO2) to the CMOS-based fabrication process gave birth to a new breed of sensing devices. These optical sensors are robust, small in size, and require less power and volume of precious analyte for analysis. In this paper, we propose and design a 2D linear Fabry-Perot(FP) label-free bio-sensor for different types of cancer cell detection. A silicon strip waveguide supported on silica with longitudinal ends terminated by the conductive VO2 behaves like a linear optical resonator. Sensing occurs when the evanescent tail of the guided mode interacts with the changing external refractive indices of different analytes leading to a shift in resonant frequency. The proposed model was simulated and analysed using the finite element method provided in COMSOL Multiphysics. Analysis performed for the 4