Publications by Yasaman Jahani

Dielectric Tetramer Nanoresonators Supporting Strong Superchiral Fields for Vibrational Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy

Hatice Altug, Felix Ulrich Richter, Yasaman Jahani, Rui Lu, Bang Hyun Lee, Ming-Lun Tseng, Longfang Ye

Chirality (C) is a fundamental property of objects, in terms of symmetry. It is extremely important to sense and distinguish chiral molecules in the fields of biochemistry, science, and medicine. Vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) spectroscopy, obtained ...

Amer Chemical Soc2023

Dielectric metasurfaces and their applications for optical biosensing

Yasaman Jahani

Over the past century, our understanding of life has been focused on its most fundamental building blocks: molecules. Biological molecules, such as proteins found in blood, other body fluids, or tissues, are excellent guides to identifying a normal or abno ...

EPFL2023

Imaging-based spectrometer-less optofluidic biosensors based on dielectric metasurfaces for detecting extracellular vesicles

Hatice Altug, Michele De Palma, Chiara Cianciaruso, Filiz Yesilköy, Yasaman Jahani, Eduardo Romero Arvelo

Biosensors are indispensable tools for public, global, and personalized healthcare as they provide tests that can be used from early disease detection and treatment monitoring to preventing pandemics. We introduce single-wavelength imaging biosensors capab ...

Nature Research2021

All-dielectric Metasurfaces Enabling Imaging-based Real-time Biosensing

Hatice Altug, Michele De Palma, Chiara Cianciaruso, Yasaman Jahani, Eduardo Romero Arvelo

IEEE2021

Imaging-based Optofluidic Biosensors Enabled by All-dielectric metasurfaces

Hatice Altug, Michele De Palma, Chiara Cianciaruso, Yasaman Jahani, Eduardo Romero Arvelo

We present optofluidic label-free biosensors leveraging high quality-factor resonances emanated from bound-states-in-the-continuum and novel data processing. The sensors are based on imaging and offer solutions to remove sophisticated spectroscopy instrume ...

IEEE2021

Membrane activity detection in cultured cells using phase-sensitive plasmonics

Johannes Gräff, Liliane Glauser, Xiaokang Li, Jose Vicente Sanchez Mut, Yasaman Jahani, Ershad Mohammadi, Foziyeh Sohrabi

Despite the existence of various neural recording and mapping techniques, there is an open territory for the emergence of novel techniques. The current neural imaging and recording techniques suffer from invasiveness, a time-consuming labeling process, poo ...

2020

Blue-shift ultrasensitivity using rhombus-shaped plasmonic crystal on Si3N4 membrane

Bahareh Ghadiani, Dordaneh Etezadi, Yasaman Jahani, Ershad Mohammadi, Foziyeh Sohrabi, Mahdi Tamizifar

Harnessing ultrasensitivity from optical structures to detect tiny changes in the targeted samples is the main goal of scientists in the field of sensor design. In this study, an uncommon rhombus-shape plasmonic structure is proposed for providing blue-shi ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2020

Enhanced Circular Dichroism and Chiral Sensing with Bound States in the Continuum

Hatice Altug, Andreas Tittl, Yasaman Jahani

We reveal that optical chirality at the nanoscale can be boosted dramatically by bound states in the continuum (BIC). We predict the enhancement of chiroptical signals from nanostructures supporting quasi-BICs in mid-IR with a record-high efficiency. (C) 2 ...

IEEE2019

Ultrasensitive hyperspectral imaging and biodetection enabled by dielectric metasurfaces

Volkan Cevher, Hatice Altug, Filiz Yesilköy, Andreas Tittl, Yasaman Jahani, Eduardo Romero Arvelo, Mingkai Liu

Metasurfaces based on resonant subwavelength photonic structures enable novel ways of wavefront control and light focusing, underpinning a new generation of flat-optics devices. Recently emerged all-dielectric asymmetric metasurfaces, composed of arrays of ...

Nature Publishing Group2019

Integrated Nanophotonic Biosensors for Point-of Care Diagnostics and Bioanalytical Applications

Hatice Altug, Xiaokang Li, Filiz Yesilköy, Alexander Belushkin, Yasaman Jahani

In an effort to address the requirements of next-generation healthcare systems, including personalized medicine, point-of-care diagnostics, and global health surveillance, I will introduce imaging-based portable nanoplasmonic biosensors integrated with mic ...

IEEE2019