Polymer microring resonators and their sensor applications

Photonic microring resonators have great potential in the application of highly sensitive label-free biosensors and detection of high-frequency ultrasound due to high Q-factor resonances. Design consideration, device fabrication techniques, experimental results are report in this paper.

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