Biophotonic sensors

Junior Research Group of Dr. Timo Mappes

Biophotonic Sensors

This Young Investigator Group (YIG) was established in the frame of the German Excellence Initiative and is partly funded by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

The aim of this interdisciplinary group is the creation of the technological basis for novel miniaturized sensor systems out of polymer for fluid analysis in chemistry, biology and medicine. To meet this challenge, process techniques need to be optimized and physical effects have to be simulated in order to build a selection of highly integrated sensor systems that are able to sense specific biomedical parameters. Therefore we are developing solutions for the integration of microfluidic, microoptical, and electro optical sub-systems and components. Objectives of the development are high sensitivity, a minimal amount of analyte to be used for sensing, and low production cost in order to allow for using the optofluidic chips as disposables. For specific biophotonic applications chips are optimized to show the reproducibility and reliability of the entire system. The biophotonic systems group is working at the Institute for Microstructure Technology (IMT) in close cooperation with the Light Technology Institute (LTI).

The PhD students of this junior research group are part of Karlsruhe School of Optics and Photonics (KSOP). The entire group is member of the European Network Photonics 4 Life (P4L).