Design and Bulk Sensitivity Analysis of a Silicon Nitride Photonic Biosensor for Cancer Cell Detection

Table 7

Comparison of bulk sensitivity of λ0 = 1550 nm with other silicon-based photonic sensors.

Sensor	Architecture	(RIU/RIU)
[38]	Ring	0.45	383	0.247
[39]	Ring	0.89	490	0.316
[28]	Ring	0.85	440	0.284
[40]	Ring	0.80	580	0.374
[41]	PSBG	n/a	579	0.374
[42]	Ring	0.97	575	0.371
[43]	Ring	1.03	545	0.352
[33]	Bragg	0.93	507	0.387
[44]	MZI	0.79	−599	−0.386
This work	MZI	2.0699	568	0.366