Antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT) and antimicrobial photothermal therapy (aPTT) are promising local and effective alternative therapies for antibiotic resistant bacterial infections and biofilms. Combination of nanoparticles and organic photosensitizers offer...

Colorectal cancer (CRC) has a poor prognosis and urgently needs better therapeutic approaches. 5-Aminolevulinic acid (ALA) induced protoprophyrin IX (PpIX) based photodynamic therapy (PDT) is already approved in the clinic...

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Synthesis of ultrasmall, colloidally stable, biocompatible Ag2S-gluthatione quantum dots for NIR image guided-long wavelength photothermal therapy agents.

Taking advantage of the favorable Gibbs free energies, atomic layer deposited (ALD) aluminum oxide (Al 2 O 3) was used as a novel approach for passivation of type II InAs/GaSb superlattice (SL) midwave infrared (MWIR) single pixel photodetectors in a self cleaning process (k cutoff $ 5.1 lm). Al 2 O 3 passivated and unpassivated diodes were compared for their electrical and optical performances. For passivated diodes, the dark current density was improved by an order of magnitude at 77 K. The zero bias responsivity and detectivity was 1.33 A/W and 1.9 Â 10 13 Jones, respectively at 4 lm and 77 K. Quantum efficiency (QE) was determined as %41 for these detectors. This conformal passivation technique is promising for focal plane array (FPA) applications. V