This is a list of researchers in optofluidics, a research and technology area that combines microfluidics and optics and has applications in displays, biosensors, lab-on-chip devices, lenses, and molecular imaging and energy.
Current research and technologies There are numerous research groups worldwide working on optofluidics, including those listed below. Country University / Institute Group TopicUniversity of Sydney CUDOS (Eggleton) Photonic Crystals.Johannes Kepler University Linz Institute for Microelectronics and Microsensors (Jakoby) Fluidic sensors, Miniaturized IR sensor systems, microfluidic actuators.University of Toronto Sinton Group biosensors, energy.University of Toronto Biophotonics Group (Levy) Photonic crystals, sensors.The University of British Columbia MiNa GroupMicrosystems and Nanotechnology Group (MiNa) | MiNa Integrated optofluidics, sensors.Queen's University Escobedo Group Optical Diagnostics, Micro/Nano-devices.Danish Technical University Kristensen Group Polymer optofluidics, lasers, single molecule analysis.Hebrew University NanoOpto Group (Levy) Optical Resonators, Plasmonics.Sharif University of Technology M.S. Saidi Group Optical Diagnostic Methods, Biofluids.University of Tokyo Goda Lab Imaging flow cytometry, single-cell analysis.Seoul National University Biophotonics and Nano Engineering Lab (Kwon) Directed assembly, sensors, structural color.KAIST Superlattice Nanomaterials Lab (Yang) Optofluidic materials, SERS sensors. Technische Universität Berlin Institute of Optics and Atomic PhysicsGlass surface and volume structuring.University of Bremen IMSAS Sensors Institute (Vellekoop group) Optofluidic devices, sensors, microfluidicsKarlsruhe Institute of Technology Biophotonic Sensors Group (Mappes) Sensors, fabrication and integration techniques.University of MünsterNonlinear Photonics Group (Denz) Optical tweezing and its integration into optofluidic setups, direct-laser-writing of optofluidic componentsEPFL Psaltis Group optofluidic switches, imaging, energy.Nanyang Technological University A.Q. Liu GroupMEMS_home Optofluidic waveguides, lab-on-a-chip devices.Nanyang Technological University N.T. Nguyen Group Diagnostics, Transport.ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences Quidant group LSPR sensing, Plasmonic tweezers.National Taiwan University Bio-Optofluidic System Lab NTU Huang Lab / Home optical sensing for dynamic cellular phenotyping.National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University Integrated Biomedical and Optofluidic Systems Lab optofluidic sensing, thermophoresis, SERS, LSPR.Koç University Nano-Optics Research Lab. Droplet resonators, optofluidic waveguides, optical trapping and manipulation.University of St Andrews Optical Manipulation Group Optofluidic sensing, trapping, Raman spectroscopy, cell sorting, photoporationUniversity of St Andrews Optical Manipulation Group Optofluidic sensing, trapping, Raman spectroscopy, cell sorting, photoporationUniversity of Cambridge Optofluidics Group (Euser Group) Optofluidics with hollow-core photonic crystal fibres.Purdue University Steve Wereley Group Holographic optical tweezing, Optoelctrokinetic Patterning, Programmable Microfluidics, Micro-PIV.Cornell University Erickson Group nanophotonic tweezing, optofluidic switches, biosensors, energy.UC Santa Cruz Applied Optics Group Arrow waveguides, single molecule optofluidics.Brigham Young University Hawkins Research Group Optofluidic waveguides, single molecule optical analysis.Caltech Yang Biophotonics Group Optofluidic Microscopy, Imaging, OCT.UC San Diego Ultrafast and Nanoscale Optics Group (Fainman) Nanoscale lasers, optofluidic switches, silicon devices.University of Michigan Sherman Fan Lab Optofluidic lasers, SERS, ring resonators.University of Maryland White Research GroupWhite Research Group Medical diagnostics, SERS, circulating tumor cells.University of Chicago The Scherer GroupThe Scherer Group Optical trapping, active nanoscale plasmonic devices.Caltech Nanofabrication Group (Scherer) Optofluidic Lasers, DNA detection, photonic crystals.Penn State BioNEMS Laboratory (Huang) Optofluidic lenses, plasmonics.UC Berkeley BioPOETS (Lee) Optofluidic transport, SERS, microfluidics.UC Berkeley Berkeley Integrated Photonics Lab (Wu) Optoelectronic tweezers.UC San Diego Lo Research Group Optofluidic flow cytometry.UIUC Nano Sensors Group (Cunningham) Photonic Crystal Sensors, SERS.Harvard Crozier Group Near Field Trapping, SERSPrinceton University Imaging Physics Group Microfluidic Tomography,Flow-scanning optical tomography N. C. Pégard, M. L. Toth, M. Driscoll, and J. W. Fleischer Lab Chip, (2014),14, 4447-4450 Deconvolution,N. C. Pégard and J. W. Fleischer, Journal of Biomedical Optics 18 040503 (2013) SuperresolutionC-H. Lu, N. C. Pégard and J. W. Fleischer, 2013, Applied Physics Letters, 102 161115 (2013) University of MissouriNicole Hashemi GroupOptofluidics, microfluidics, biosensors, diagnostics and therapeutics, energy.Iowa State University Attinger Group Optofluidic transportBoston University LINBS (Altug) Plasmonics, nanohole sensors, high throughput diagnosticsUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison Micro/nano sensors and actuators group Liquid tunable microlenses.Vrije Universiteit Brussel Brussels Photonics Team (B-PHOT) Polymer optofluidics, biosensors
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