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2023
- P. Sezemsky, M. Koba, P. Curda, R. Bogdanowicz, V. Stranak, M. Śmietana, “Electro-optical transducer based on indium-tin-oxide-coated optical fiber for analysis of ionized media“, Measurement, 2023, 212, 112695
- M. Janik, T. Gabler, M. Koba, M. Panasiuk, Y. Dashkevich, T. Łęga, A. Dąbrowska, A. Naskalska, S. Żołędowska, D. Nidzworski, K. Pyrć, B. Gromadzka, M. Śmietana, “Low-volume label-free SARS-CoV-2 detection with the microcavity-based optical fiber sensor“, Scientific Reports 13.1, 2023, 1512
- E. Pituła, M. Janik, P. Sezemsky, K. Szymańska, M. Olszewski, V. Stranak, M. Koba, M. Śmietana, “Smartphone-based dynamic measurements of electro-optically modulated lossy-mode resonance and its biosensing applications“, Measurement, Volume 206, January 2023, 112349
- D. Burnat, N. Kwietniewski, K. Bartnik, M. Koba, O. Kochanowska, K. Kondracka, M. Śmietana, “Tailoring Refractive Index and Surface Sensitivity of an Optical Fiber Fabry-Perot Interferometer by a Thin Layer Deposition”, Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 41, no. 6, pp. 1865-1873, 2023
2022
- M. Janik, M. Sosnowska, T. Gabler, M. Koba, A. Myśliwiec, M. Kutwin, E. Sawosz Chwalibóg, M. Śmietana, “Life in an optical fiber: Monitoring of cell cultures with microcavity in-line Mach-Zehnder interferometer”, Biosensors and Bioelectronics 217, 2022, 114718
- M. Janik, K. Lechowicz, E. Pitula, J. Warszewski, M. Koba, M. Smietana, “S2EC-enhanced spectroelectrochemistry with lossy-mode resonance optical fiber sensor”, TechRxiv, 2022
- T. Gabler, M. Janik, C. Liao, A. Myśliwiec, M. Koba, M. Jönsson-Niedziółka, Y. Wang, M. Śmietana, “Investigation of liquids with microcavity in-line Mach-Zehnder interferometers–Impact of the microcavity shape on the sensing performance”, Optical Fiber Technology, 73, 2022, 103059
- A. Krześniak, T. Gabler, M. Janik, M. Koba, M. Jönsson-Niedziółka, M. Śmietana, “A microfluidic system for analysis of electrochemical processing using a highly sensitive optical fiber microcavity”, Optics and Lasers in Engineering, vol. 158, 2022, 107173.
- E. Kuźmicz-Mirosław, M. Kuśmierz, K. Terpiłowski, M. Śmietana, M. Barczak, M. Staniszewska, “Effect of Various Surface Treatments on Wettability and Morphological Properties of Titanium Oxide Thin Films”, Materials, 2022, 15(12), 4113.
- D. Burnat, P. Sezemsky, K. Lechowicz, M. Koba, M. Janczuk-Richter, M. Janik, V. Stranak, J. Niedziółka-Jönsson, R. Bogdanowicz, M. Śmietana, “Functional fluorine-doped tin oxide coating for opto-electrochemical label-free biosensors“, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, vol. 367, 2022
- Z. Dziekan, E. Pituła, N. Kwietniewski, B. Stonio, M. Janik, T. Śmiarowski, M. Koba, P. Parzuchowski, J. Niedziółka-Jönsson, M. Śmietana, “Performance of nanoimprinted and nanocoated optical label-free biosensor-nanocoating properties perspective“, Optics and Lasers in Engineering, vol. 153, 2022, 107009
- M. Śmietana, B. Janaszek, K. Lechowicz, P. Sezemsky, M. Koba, D. Burnat, M. Kieliszczyk, V. Stranak, P. Szczepański, “Electro-optically modulated lossy-mode resonance“, Nanophotonics, no. 3, 2022, pp. 593-602.
2021
- Jin L., Duk-Yong C., M. Smietana, “Novel Smart Materials for Optical Fiber Sensor Development”, Frontier in Materials, vol.8, 2021, 671086
- P. Sezemsky, D. Burnat, J. Kratochvil, H. Wulff, A. Kruth, K. Lechowicz, M. Janik, R. Bogdanowicz, M. Cada, Z. Hubicka, P. Niedziałkowski, W. Białobrzeska, V. Stranak, M. Śmietana, “Tailoring properties of Indium Tin Oxide thin films for their work in both electrochemical and optical label-free sensing systems”, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2021, 130173.
- Yang X., Gong C., Liu Y., Rao Y., Śmietana M., Gong Y. “Recent Progress in Fiber Optofluidic Lasing and Sensing” Photonic Sensors. 2021 Jun;11(2):262-78.
- Gabler T., Krześniak A., Janik M., Myśliwiec A., Koba M., Buczyńska J., Jönsson-Niedziolka M., Śmietana M. “Electrochemistry in an optical fiber microcavity-optical monitoring of electrochemical processes in picoliter volumes”
- Pituła E., Koba M., Śmietana M. “Which smartphone for a smartphone-based spectrometer?” Optics & Laser Technology. 2021 Aug 1;140:107067.
- Meng F., Zhao X., Ding J., Niu Y., Zhang X., Śmietana M., Buczyński R., Lin B., Tao G., Yang L., Wang X. “Use of machine learning to efficiently predict the confinement loss in anti-resonant hollow-core fiber” Optics Letters. 2021 Mar 15;46(6):1454-7.
- Janik M., Brzozowska E., Czyszczoń P., Celebańska A., Koba M., Gamian A., Bock W.J., Śmietana M., (2021), “Optical fiber aptasensor for label-free bacteria detection in small volumes” Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical vol. 330, 129316
2020
- Eftimov T., Janik M., Koba M., Śmietana M., Mikulic P., Bock W., (2020), “Long-Period Gratings and Microcavity In-Line Mach Zehnder Interferometers as Highly Sensitive Optical Fiber Platforms for Bacteria Sensing” , Sensors 20, 3772
- Janik M., Niedziałkowski P., Lechowicz K., Koba M., Sezemsky P., Stranak V., Ossowski T., Śmietana M., (2020), “Electrochemically directed biofunctionalization of lossy-mode resonance optical fiber sensor”, Optics Express 28(11), 15934-15942
- Janczuk-Richter M., Gromadzka B., Richter Ł., Panasiuk M., Zimmer K., Mikulic P., Bock W.J., Maćkowski S., Śmietana M., Niedziólka-Jönsson J., (2020), „Immunosensor based on long-period fiber gratings for norovirus detection”, Sensors 20, 813
- Śmietana M., Koba M., Sezemsky P., Szot-Karpińska K., Burnat D., Stranak V., Niedziółka-Jönsson J., Bogdanowicz R., (2020), „Simultaneous optical and electrochemical label-free biosensing with ITO-coated lossy-mode resonance sensor”, Biosensors and Bioelectronics 154, 112050
- Janik M., Koba M., Król K., Mikulic P., Bock W.J., Śmietana M., (2020), ”Combined Long-Period Fiber Grating and Microcavity In-line Mach-Zehnder Interferometer for Refractive Index Measurements with Limited Cross-sensitivity”, Sensors 20, 2431
- Jedrzejczak A., Batory D., Prowizor M., Dominik M., Smietana M., Cichomski M., Kisielewska A., Szymanski W., Kozlowski W., Dudek M., (2020), “Titanium(IV) isopropoxide as a source of titanium and oxygen atoms in carbon based coatings deposited by Radio Frequency Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapour Deposition method”, Thin Solid Films 693, 137697
- Sankhyabrata Bandyopadhyay, Liyang Shao, Mateusz Smietana, Chao Wang, Jie Hu, Guoqing Wang, Wei He, Guoqiang Gu, YataoYang, (2020), „Employing higher order cladding modes of fiber Bragg grating for analysis of refractive index change in volume and at the surface”, IEEE Photonics Journal vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 1-13, Feb. 2020, Art no. 7100313, doi: 10.1109/JPHOT.2019.2963125
- Van Thuy Hoang, Dominik Dobrakowski, Grzegorz Stępniewski, Rafał Kasztelanic, Dariusz Pysz, Khoa Dinh Xuan, Mariusz Klimczak, Mateusz Śmietana, Ryszard Buczyński, (2020), „Antiresonant fibers with single and double ring of capillaries for optofluidic applications”, Optics Express
- Sankhyabrata Bandyopadhyay, Liyang Shao, Chao Wang, Shuaiqi Liu, Qiang Wu, Guoqiang Gu, Jie Hu, Yanjun Liu, Xiaolong Chen, Zhangqi Song, Xuefeng Song, Qiaoliang Bao, Mateusz Smietana, (2020) “Study on optimization of nano-coatings for ultra-sensitive biosensors based on long-period fiber grating”, Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research, Volume 27, 2020, 100320, ISSN 2214-1804,
2019
- Niedziałkowski P., Białobrzeska W., Burnat D., Sezemsky P., Stranak V., Wulff H., Ossowski T., Bogdanowicz R., Koba M., Śmietana M., (2019), “Electrochemical performance of indium-tin-oxide-coated lossy-mode resonance optical fiber sensor”, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 301, 127043
- Janczuk-Richter M., Dominik M., Koba M., Mikulic P., Bock W.J., Maćkowski S., Jönsson-Niedziółka M., Niedziółka-Jönsson J., Śmietana M., (2019), “Water-induced fused silica glass surface alterations monitored using long-period fiber gratings”, Journal of Lightwave Technology 37(18), 4542-4548
- Hoang V.T., Stępniewski G., Czarnecka K., Kasztelanic R., Long V.C., Xuan K.D., Shao L., Śmietana M., Buczyński R., (2019), “Optical properties of buffers and cell culture media for optofluidic and sensing applications”, Applied Sciences 9, 1145
- Piestrzyńska M., Dominik M., Kosiel K., Janczuk-Richter M., Szot-Karpińska K., Brzozowska E., Shao L., Niedziółka-Jönsson J., Bock W.J., Śmietana M., (2019), “Ultrasensitive tantalum oxide nano-coated long-period gratings for detection of various biological targets”, Biosensors and Bioelectronics 133, 8-15
- Śmietana M., Niedziałkowski P., Białobrzeska W., Burnat D., Sezemsky P., Koba M., Stranak V., Siuzdak K., Ossowski T., Bogdanowicz R., (2019), “Study on combined optical and electrochemical analysis using indium-tin-oxide-coated optical fiber sensor”, Electroanalysis 31, 398-404
- Janczuk-Richter M., Piestrzyńska M., Burnat D., Sezemsky P., Stranak V., Bock W.J., Bogdanowicz R., Niedziólka-Jönsson J., Śmietana M., (2019), “Optical investigations of electrochemical processes using a long-period fiber grating functionalized by indium tin oxide”, Sensors & Actuators: B. Chemical 279, 223-229
- Sobaszek M., Burnat D., Sezemsky P., Stranak V., Bogdanowicz R., Koba M., Siuzdak K., Śmietana M., (2019), “Enhancing electrochemical properties of ITO-coated lossy-mode resonance optical fiber sensor by electrodeposition of PEDOT:PSS”, Optical Materials Express 9(7), 3069-3078
- Janik M., Eftimov T., Koba M., Śmietana M., Bock W.J., (2019), “Tailoring Properties of Microcavity In-line Mach-Zehnder Interferometer by the Microcavity Enlargement using Femtosecond Laser”, Journal of Lightwave Technology 37(18), 4501-4506
- Ozcariz A., Dominik M., Smietana M., Zamarreño C.R., Del Villar I., Arregui F.J., (2019), “Lossy Mode Resonance optical sensors based on indium-gallium-zinc oxide thin film”, Sensors and Actuators A 290, 20-27
- Van Thuy Hoang, Rafał Kasztelanic, Adam Filipkowski, Grzegorz Stępniewski, Dariusz Pysz, Mariusz Klimczak, Sławomir Ertman, Van Cao Long, Tomasz Woliński, Marek Trippenbach, Khoa Dinh Xuan, Mateusz Śmietana, Ryszard Buczyński, (2019), „Supercontinuum generation in an all-normal dispersion large core photonic crystal fiber infiltrated with carbon tetrachloride”, Optical Materials Express 9(5), 2264-2278
- Yuan Gao, Chaotan Sima, Jia Cheng, Zhihe Ren, Binchen Cai, Zhenggang Lian, Mateusz Smietana, Deming Liu, (2019), “Highly-birefringent and ultra-wideband low-loss photonic crystal fiber with rhombic and elliptical holes”, Optics Communications 450, 172–175
- Jie Hu, Guoqiang Gu, Yanjun Liu, Xuefeng Song, Zhangqi Song, Xinfeng Yang, Dongrui Xiao, Shangwu Yang, Jiansong Feng, Ryszard Buczyński, Mateusz Śmietana, Tingting Lang, and Liyang Shao, (2019), “Dual Mach-Zehnder interferometer based on side-hole fiber for high-sensitivity refractive index sensing”, IEEE Photonics Journal 11(6), 7105513
2018
- Janik M., Koba M., Celebańska A., Bock W.J., Śmietana M., (2018), ”Live E. coli bacteria label-free sensing using a microcavity in-line Mach-Zehnder interferometer”, Scientific Reports 8, 17176
- Śmietana M., Dominik M., Mikulic P., Bock W.J., (2018), “Temperature and refractive index sensing with Al2O3-nanocoated long-period gratings working at dispersion turning point“, Optics and Laser Technology 107, 268–273
- Bogdanowicz R., Niedziałkowski P., Sobaszek M., Burnat D., Białobrzeska W., Cebula Z., Sezemsky P., Koba M., Stranak V., Ossowski T., Śmietana M., (2018), “Optical detection of ketoprofen by its electropolymerization on ITO-coated optical fiber probe”, Sensors 18, 1361
- Kosiel K., Pągowska K., Kozubal M., Guziewicz M., Jabłońska K., Jakieła R., Syryanyy Y., Gabler T., Śmietana M., (2018), “Compositional, structural and optical properties of atomic layer deposited tantalum oxide for optical fiber sensor overlays”, Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A: Vacuum, Surfaces, and Films 36, 031505
- Śmietana M., Sobaszek M., Michalak B., Niedziałkowski P., Białobrzeska W., Koba M., Sezemsky P., Stranak V., Karczewski J., Ossowski T., Bogdanowicz R., (2018), “Optical monitoring of electrochemical processes with ITO-based lossy-mode resonance optical fiber sensor applied as an electrode”, Journal of Lightwave Technology 36(4), 954-960
- Janik M., Koba M., Celebańska A., Bock W.J., Śmietana M., (2018), “Sensing properties of micro-cavity in-line Mach-Zehnder interferometer enhanced by reactive ion etching”, Optics and Laser Technology 103, 260-266
- Kosiel K., Koba M., Masiewicz M., Śmietana M., (2018), “Tailoring properties of lossy-mode resonance optical fiber sensors with atomic layer deposition technique”, Optics and Laser Technology 102, 213-221
- Kosiel K., Dominik M., Ściślewska I., Kalisz M., Guziewicz M., Gołaszewska K., Niedziółka-Jonsson J., Bock W.J., Śmietana M., (2018), “Alkali-resistant low-temperature atomic-layer-deposited oxides for optical fiber sensor overlays”, Nanotechnology 29(13), 135602