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.
There are numerous research groups worldwide working on optofluidics, including those listed below.
| Country | University / Institute | Group | Topic | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CUDOS (Eggleton)[1] | Photonic Crystals. | |||
| Institute for Microelectronics and Microsensors (Jakoby)[2] | Fluidic sensors, Miniaturized IR sensor systems, microfluidic actuators. | |||
| Sinton Group[3] | biosensors, energy. | |||
| Biophotonics Group (Levy)[4] | Photonic crystals, sensors. | |||
| MiNa Group[5] | Integrated optofluidics, sensors. | |||
| Escobedo Group[6] | Optical Diagnostics, Micro/Nano-devices. | |||
| Kristensen Group[7] | Polymer optofluidics, lasers, single molecule analysis. | |||
| NanoOpto Group (Levy)[8] | Optical Resonators, Plasmonics. | |||
| M.S. Saidi Group[9] | Optical Diagnostic Methods, Biofluids. | |||
| Goda Lab[10] | Imaging flow cytometry, single-cell analysis. | |||
| Biophotonics and Nano Engineering Lab (Kwon)[11] | Directed assembly, sensors, structural color. | |||
| Superlattice Nanomaterials Lab (Yang)[12] | Optofluidic materials, SERS sensors. | |||
| Institute of Optics and Atomic Physics | Glass surface and volume structuring. | |||
| IMSAS Sensors Institute (Vellekoop group)[13] | Optofluidic devices, sensors, microfluidics | |||
| Biophotonic Sensors Group (Mappes)[14] | Sensors, fabrication and integration techniques. | |||
| University of Münster | Nonlinear Photonics Group (Denz) [15] | Optical tweezing and its integration into optofluidic setups, direct-laser-writing of optofluidic components | ||
| Psaltis Group[16] | optofluidic switches, imaging, energy. | |||
| A.Q. Liu Group[17] | Optofluidic waveguides, lab-on-a-chip devices. | |||
| N.T. Nguyen Group[18] | Diagnostics, Transport. | |||
| Quidant group[19] | LSPR sensing, Plasmonic tweezers. | |||
| Bio-Optofluidic System Lab [20] | optical sensing for dynamic cellular phenotyping. | |||
| Integrated Biomedical and Optofluidic Systems Lab [21] | optofluidic sensing, thermophoreis, SERS, LSPR. | |||
| Nano-Optics Research Lab.[22] | Droplet resonators, optofluidic waveguides, optical trapping and manipulation. | |||
| Optical Manipulation Group[23] | Optofluidic sensing, trapping, Raman spectroscopy, cell sorting, photoporation | |||
| Optical Manipulation Group[24] | Optofluidic sensing, trapping, Raman spectroscopy, cell sorting, photoporation | |||
| Optofluidics Group (Euser Group) [25] | Optofluidics with hollow-core photonic crystal fibres. | |||
| Steve Wereley Group[26] | Holographic optical tweezing, Optoelctrokinetic Patterning, Programmable Microfluidics, Micro-PIV. | |||
| Erickson Group[27] | nanophotonic tweezing, optofluidic switches, biosensors, energy. | |||
| Applied Optics Group[28] | Arrow waveguides, single molecule optofluidics. | |||
| Hawkins Research Group[29] | Optofluidic waveguides, single molecule optical analysis. | |||
| Yang Biophotonics Group[30] | Optofluidic Microscopy, Imaging, OCT. | |||
| Ultrafast and Nanoscale Optics Group (Fainman)[31] | Nanoscale lasers, optofluidic switches, silicon devices. | |||
| Sherman Fan Lab[32] | Optofluidic lasers, SERS, ring resonators. | |||
| White Research Group[33] | Medical diagnostics, SERS, circulating tumor cells. | |||
| The Scherer Group[34] | Optical trapping, active nanoscale plasmonic devices. | |||
| Nanofabrication Group (Scherer)[35] | Optofluidic Lasers, DNA detection, photonic crystals. | |||
| BioNEMS Laboratory (Huang)[36] | Optofluidic lenses, plasmonics. | |||
| BioPOETS (Lee)[37] | Optofluidic transport, SERS, microfluidics. | |||
| Berkeley Integrated Photonics Lab (Wu)[38] | Optoelectronic tweezers. | |||
| Lo Research Group[39] | Optofluidic flow cytometry. | |||
| Nano Sensors Group (Cunningham)[40] | Photonic Crystal Sensors, SERS. | |||
| Crozier Group[41] | Near Field Trapping, SERS | |||
| Imaging Physics Group[42] | Microfluidic Tomography,[43] Deconvolution,[44] Superresolution[45] | |||
| Iowa State University | Nicole Hashemi Group[46] | Optofluidics, microfluidics, biosensors, diagnostics and therapeutics, energy. | ||
| Attinger Group[47] | Optofluidic transport | |||
| LINBS (Altug)[48] | Plasmonics, nanohole sensors, high throughput diagnostics | |||
| Micro/nano sensors and actuators group [49] | Liquid tunable microlenses. | |||
| Brussels Photonics Team (B-PHOT) [50] | Polymer optofluidics, biosensors |