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  1. Maximizing Photoluminescence Extraction in Silicon Photonic Crystal Slabs

    Article • Scientific Reports, April 2016, Nature

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  2. Voices of biotech

    Article • Nature Biotechnology, March 2016, Nature

    Dr Howard Junca, Dr Frank Vollmer

  3. Tracking micro-optical resonances for identifying and sensing novel procaspase-3 protein marker released from cell cultures in response to toxins

    Article • Nanotechnology, March 2016, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  4. Whispering gallery mode sensors

    Article • Advances in Optics and Photonics, May 2015, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  5. Stand-Off Biodetection with Free-Space Coupled Asymmetric Microsphere Cavities

    Article • Sensors, April 2015, MDPI AG

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  6. Cavity ring-up spectroscopy for ultrafast sensing with optical microresonators

    Article • Nature Communications, April 2015, Nature

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  7. Ratiometric detection of oligonucleotide stoichiometry on multifunctional gold nanoparticles by whispering gallery mode biosensing

    Article • The Analyst, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  8. Combining an optical resonance biosensor with enzyme activity kinetics to understand protein adsorption and denaturation

    Article • Biomaterials, January 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  9. Probing biomechanical properties with a centrifugal force quartz crystal microbalance

    Article • Nature Communications, October 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  10. Taking detection to the limit with optical microcavities: Recent advances presented at the 560. WE Heraeus Seminar

    Article • The European Physical Journal Special Topics, September 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  11. Enhanced nanoparticle detection with liquid droplet resonators

    Article • The European Physical Journal Special Topics, September 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  12. Single-molecule nucleic acid interactions monitored on a label-free microcavity biosensor platform

    Article • Nature Physics, August 2014, Nature

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  13. Optimizing detection limits in whispering gallery mode biosensing

    Article • Optics Express, March 2014, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  14. Ultraspecific and Highly Sensitive Nucleic Acid Detection by Integrating a DNA Catalytic Network with a Label-Free Microcavity

    Article • Small, February 2014, Wiley

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  15. Detection of Single Nanoparticles and Lentiviruses Using Microcavity Resonance Broadening

    Article • Advanced Materials, February 2014, Wiley

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  16. Publisher's Note: Level repulsion in hybrid photonic-plasmonic microresonators for enhanced biodetection [Phys. Rev. A 88 , 023831 (2013)]

    Article • Physical Review A, August 2013, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  17. Level repulsion in hybrid photonic-plasmonic microresonators for enhanced biodetection

    Article • Physical Review A, August 2013, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  18. Detection of Single Nanoparticles and Lentiviruses Using Microcavity Resonance Broadening

    Article • Advanced Materials, August 2013, Wiley

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  19. Theory of resonance shifts of whispering gallery modes by arbitrary plasmonic nanoparticles

    Article • New Journal of Physics, August 2013, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  20. Enhanced Raman Scattering of Graphene using Arrays of Split Ring Resonators

    Article • Advanced Optical Materials, February 2013, Wiley

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  21. Interference of conically scattered light in surface plasmon resonance

    Article • Optics Letters, January 2013, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  22. Review Label-free detection with high-Q microcavities: a review of biosensing mechanisms for integrated devices

    Article • Nanophotonics, December 2012, De Gruyter

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  23. Ultrasensitive detection of a protein by optical trapping in a photonic-plasmonic microcavity

    Article • Journal of Biophotonics, June 2012, Wiley

    Dr Frank Vollmer, Dr Svetlana V Boriskina

  24. Whispering gallery mode biosensor quantification of fibronectin adsorption kinetics onto alkylsilane monolayers and interpretation of resultant cellular response

    Article • Biomaterials, January 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  25. Optical Resonator Biosensors: Molecular Diagnostic and Nanoparticle Detection on an Integrated Platform

    Article • ChemPhysChem, December 2011, Wiley

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  26. Nanoparticle-based protein detection by optical shift of a resonant microcavity

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, August 2011, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Frank Vollmer, Dr Svetlana V Boriskina

  27. Lasing in localized modes of a slow light photonic crystal waveguide

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, June 2011, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  28. All-optical reversible logic gates with microresonators

    Article • December 2010, SPIE

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  29. All-optical switching with bacteriorhodopsin protein coated microcavities and its application to low power computing circuits

    Article • Journal of Applied Physics, March 2010, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  30. Optical microcavities: single virus detection and nanoparticle trapping

    Article • August 2009, SPIE

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  31. Out-of-plane scattering from vertically asymmetric photonic crystal slab waveguides with in-plane disorder

    Article • Optics Express, July 2009, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  32. Whispering gallery mode carousel – a photonic mechanism for enhanced nanoparticle detection in biosensing

    Article • Optics Express, April 2009, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  33. Single virus detection from the reactive shift of a whispering-gallery mode

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, December 2008, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  34. Whispering-gallery-mode biosensing: label-free detection down to single molecules

    Article • Nature Methods, July 2008, Nature

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  35. Enhanced photoluminescence from embedded PbSe colloidal quantum dots in silicon-based random photonic crystal microcavities

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, June 2008, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  36. Disorder-induced high-Q cavities in photonic crystal waveguides

    Article • February 2008, SPIE

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  37. Experimental Observation of Strong Photon Localization in Disordered Photonic Crystal Waveguides

    Article • Physical Review Letters, December 2007, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  38. Random high-Q cavities in disordered photonic crystal waveguides

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, November 2007, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  39. Photoinduced Transformations in Bacteriorhodopsin Membrane Monitored with Optical Microcavities

    Article • Biophysical Journal, March 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  40. Frequency-domain displacement sensing with a fiber ring-resonator containing a variable gap

    Article • Sensors and Actuators A Physical, March 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  41. Microfluidic flow rate detection based on integrated optical fiber cantilever

    Article • Lab on a Chip, January 2007, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  42. High-Q microsphere biosensor - analysis for adsorption of rodlike bacteria

    Article • Optics Express, January 2007, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  43. All-optical switching in the near infrared with bacteriorhodopsin-coated microcavities

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, October 2006, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  44. Ring-resonator-based frequency-domain optical activity measurements of a chiral liquid

    Article • Optics Letters, February 2006, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  45. Nanolayer characterization through wavelength multiplexing of a microsphere resonator

    Article • Optics Letters, March 2005, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  46. Perturbation approach to resonance shifts of whispering-gallery modes in a dielectric microsphere as a probe of a surrounding medium

    Article • Journal of the Optical Society of America B, September 2003, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  47. Multiplexed DNA Quantification by Spectroscopic Shift of Two Microsphere Cavities

    Article • Biophysical Journal, September 2003, Elsevier

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  48. Shift of whispering-gallery modes in microspheres by protein adsorption

    Article • Optics Letters, February 2003, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  49. Protein detection by optical shift of a resonant microcavity

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, May 2002, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Frank Vollmer

  50. Human TATA-binding protein-related factor-2 (hTRF2) stably associates with hTFIIA in HeLa cells

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 1999, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Frank Vollmer