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The incorporation of defects can be used to design sensor devices, which are highly sensitive to even slight alterations in the refractive index with a small quantity of analyte. The plane wave expansion method (PWE) was used to study the dispersion and profile of the CCW modes, and the finite difference time domain (FDTD) technique was used to study the transmission spectrum, quality factor, and sensitivity. We present an analysis of adiabatically coupling light into a coupled cavity waveguide. The results of the simulation indicated that a sensitivity of 203 nm\/RIU and a quality factor of 13,360 could be achieved when the refractive indices were in the range of 1.33 to 1.55.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s24010193","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,12,28]],"date-time":"2023-12-28T11:44:57Z","timestamp":1703763897000},"page":"193","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Design of a High Q-Factor Label-Free Optical Biosensor Based on a Photonic Crystal Coupled Cavity Waveguide"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"24","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5254-0007","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Reyhaneh","family":"Jannesari","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Microelectronics and Microsensors, Johannes Kepler University, 4040 Linz, Austria"}]},{"given":"Gerald","family":"P\u00fchringer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Microelectronics and Microsensors, Johannes Kepler University, 4040 Linz, Austria"}]},{"given":"Gerald","family":"Stocker","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Infineon Technologies Austria AG, 9520 Villach, Austria"}]},{"given":"Thomas","family":"Grille","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Infineon Technologies Austria AG, 9520 Villach, Austria"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2918-7150","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bernhard","family":"Jakoby","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Microelectronics and Microsensors, Johannes Kepler University, 4040 Linz, Austria"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,12,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"287","DOI":"10.1016\/j.bios.2014.02.049","article-title":"Integrated planar optical waveguide interferometer biosensors: A comparative review","volume":"58","author":"Kozma","year":"2014","journal-title":"Biosens. 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