Arregui San Martín, Francisco JavierDel Villar, IgnacioCorres Sanz, Jesús MaríaGoicoechea Fernández, JavierRuiz Zamarreño, CarlosElosúa Aguado, CésarHernáez Sáenz de Zaitigui, MiguelRivero Fuente, Pedro J.Socorro Leránoz, Abián BentorUrrutia Azcona, AitorSánchez Zábal, PedroZubiate Orzanco, PabloLópez Torres, DiegoAcha Morrás, Nerea deMatías Maestro, Ignacio2018-04-252018-04-2520141877-7058 (Print)1877-7058 (Electronic)10.1016/j.proeng.2014.11.253https://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/28448Trabajo presentado a EUROSENSORS 2014, celebrado en Italia del 7 al 10 de septiembre de 2014.In the last 4 years, experimental evidences about the potential use of optical sensors based on Lossy Mode Resonances (LMR) have been presented in the literature. These LMR sensors have some similarities with Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) sensors, the gold standard in label-free, real-time biomolecular interaction analysis. In these new LMR sensors, if the non-metallic nanocladding of an optical waveguide fulfills the conditions explained in this work, coupling of light to the cladding modes happens at certain resonance wavelengths, which enables the use of LMR devices as refractometers and opens the door to diverse applications such as in biology and proteomics research. These highly sensitive refractometers have already shown sensitivities higher than 20,000 nm/RIU or 5x10-7 RIU and, given the youth of this field, it is expected to achieve even better values.application/pdfeng© 2014 The Authors. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license.Lossy mode resonanceOptical fiberSensorsLayer-by-layerinfo:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObjectinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess