title: Parametric Simulations of Slanted 1D Photonic Crystal Sensors.
abstract: Photonic crystals and band gap materials act as manipulators of light and have a plethora of applications. They are made up of stacks of alternating dielectric constants. This article shows the simulations of an inclined, one dimensional and tuneble photonic crystal, using numerical finite element methods. The photonic crystal was made up of silver nanoparticles embedded in a hydrogel matrix and it has the ability to change and recover its periodicity. A series of factors concerning the geometry of the lattice were tested in order to analyze the efficiency, performance and optimize the properties of the optical sensor. These factors range from the size of the nanoparticles and their density within the stacks, to observing the effect of diffraction angle in readouts.
authors.affiliation: Nanotechnology Laboratory, School of Engineering, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK.
authors.forename: Aaron
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Breuer-Weil
authors.affiliation: College of Dentistry, University of Dammam, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: Naif Nasser
authors.initials: NN
authors.lastname: Almasoud
authors.affiliation: Deanship for Scientific Research, University of Dammam, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: Badaruddin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Abbasi
authors.affiliation: Harvard Medical School and Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 65 Landsdowne Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139, USA.|Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139, USA.
authors.forename: Ali K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Yetisen
authors.affiliation: Harvard Medical School and Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 65 Landsdowne Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139, USA.|Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139, USA.
authors.forename: Seok-Hyun
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Yun
authors.affiliation: Nanotechnology Laboratory, School of Engineering, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK. h.butt@bham.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Haider
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Butt