Broadband MEMS-based InfraRed spectrometers: The core of a multipurpose spectral sensing photonic platform

Project Information

BROMEDIR

Grant agreement ID: 101092697

DOI

10.3030/101092697

Project closed

EC signature date 17 November 2022

Start date 1 January 2023

End date 30 June 2026

Funded under

• Digital, Industry and Space

Total cost

€ 4 999 821,25

EU contribution

€ 4 999 821,25

Coordinated by

CY.R.I.C CYPRUS RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTER LTD
Cyprus

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (5)

Dissemination & Communication plan, including networking, clustering and outreach activities and related material v1

Output of T7.1. It will be delivered in M6 and updated every 6 months.

Dissemination & Communication plan, including networking, clustering and outreach activities and related material v2

Output of T7.1 It will be delivered in M6 and updated every 6 months.

Dissemination & Communication plan, including networking, clustering and outreach activities and related material v3

Output of T7.1 It will be delivered in M6 and updated every 6 months.

Dissemination & Communication plan, including networking, clustering and outreach activities and related material v4

Output of T7.1 It will be delivered in M6 and updated every 6 months.

Dissemination & Communication plan, including networking, clustering and outreach activities and related material v5

Output of T7.1 It will be delivered in M6 and updated every 6 months.

Data Management Plan (1)

Data management plan v1

Output of T7.2

Publications

Conference proceedings (14)

BROMEDIR - PART B : Evaluation of a miniaturized FT-MIR instrument for infarm milk analysis

Author(s): Grelet C, Fernández Pierna J.A, Arnould Q, Delhotte D, Erfan M, Labib S.R, Kishka A.S, Magdy E, Essam F, Mortada B, Sabry Y.M, Cousin P, Consortium Bromedir, Baeten V, Dehareng F
Published in: 2026
Publisher: ICAR

Towards Photonic Integration: Trace Gas Sensing by Balanced-Detection Interferometric Cavity-Assisted Photothermal Spectroscopy (ICAPS)

Author(s): Waclawek, J. P., Moser, H., Mahrous, A., Erfan, M., BOUROUINA, T.& Lendl, B
Published in: 2025
Publisher: C-PASS Conference (Zenodo)
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.21651094

Unlocking portable mid-infrared fingerprint sensing applications using broadband photonic MEMS FTIR

Author(s): Shady R. Labib, Mohamed G. Mahmoud, Mazen Erfan, Ahmed S. Kishka, Islam Samir, Eslam Magdy, Ahmed Darweesh, Mohamed Elsaeidy, Ahmed Abdelkhalik, Mohamed H. Al Haron, Mina Gad, Bassem Mortada, Ahmed A. Elsayed, Yasser M. Sabry
Published in: Optical and Photonic Microsystems: Technology and Applications, 2026
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.21644488

Silicon Photonic MEMS Chip for Photothermal Spectroscopy Gas Sensing

Author(s): Ahmed Mahrous, Mazen Erfan, Johannes P. Waclawek,Yasser M. Sabry, Bernhard Lendl, Tarik Bourouina
Publisher: CLEO EU 2025
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15968069

Overcoming diffraction-induced interferogram envelope modulation in miniaturized wideband MEMS-based FTIR spectrometer

Author(s): Ahmed Darweesh, Islam Samir, Sara Ahmed, Mohamed Ismail, Momen Anwar, Ahmed Shebl, Mazen Erfan, Bassem Mortada, Yasser M. Sabry
Published in: Optical and Photonic Microsystems: Technology and Applications, 2026
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.21650346

Mid-Infrared Wavelength-Selective Absorbing Metasurfaces Based on Highly-Doped Silicon Gratings

Author(s): Kirollos Ernest et al.
Publisher: International Conference on Microelectronics (IEEE-ICM)

AI-Enabled Optical Inspection of Microoptics Integration with Photonic MEMS Chips for Wideband FTIR Spectroscopy

Author(s): Ali Khater, Mazen Erfan, Yasser M. Sabry
Publisher: CLEO EU 2025
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15968024

Effects of Extreme Downscaling on Micro Fabry-Perot Spectral Responses and Resonant Mode Profiles

Author(s): Ahmed Mahrous, Mohamed Nabil, Mazen Erfan, Yasser M. Sabry, Diaa Khalil, and Tarik Bourouina
Publisher: PIERS

Modeling and compensation of backreflection signal in diffuse reflection optical MEMS spectrometers

Author(s): Samir Abozyd, Mazen Erfan, Bassem Mortada, Yasser M. Sabry
Published in: MOEMS and Miniaturized Systems XXIV, 2025
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/12.3043246

Tailorable Resonant Emissivity in the Mid-infrared Range between 10 µm and 25 µm on Highly Doped Pristine Silicon Gratings

Author(s): Tarik Bourouina, Elyes Nefzaoui, Kirollos Ernest, Ahmed Mahrous
Publisher: PIERS 2025 - PhotonIcs & Electromagnetics Research Symposium

Compact Trace Gas Sensing Employing Interferometric Cavity-Assisted Photothermal Spectroscopy.

Author(s): Waclawek, J. P., Moser, H.& Lendl, B.
Published in: 2025
Publisher: 2025 IEEE Photonics Conference (Zenodo)
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.21651436

Ultra-Wideband Portable MEMS FTIR Spectrometer towards the MIR Spectral Fingerprint Region

Author(s): Mazen Erfan, Tarik Bourouina, Yasser M. Sabry
Publisher: Poster presentation at CLEO EU 2025
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15967919

Spectral response and aging optimization of sub-miniaturized lamps for optical MEMS spectrometers

Author(s): Ahmad Mahfouz, Shady Labib, Mohamed Ismail, Islam Samir, Bassem Mortada, Mazen Erfan, Yasser Sabry
Published in: Photonic Instrumentation Engineering XII, 2025
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/12.3043399

Overcoming the black plastics sorting barrier with a portable nondestructive specular-reflection MEMS-FTIR spectrometer

Author(s): Ahmed Abdelkhalik, Ali Khater, Samir Abozyd, Mohamed Elsaeidy, Shady R. Labib, Ahmed S. Kishka, Mohamed H. Al Haron, Mazen Erfan, Ahmed A. Elsayed, Momen Anwar, Bassem Mortada, Yasser M. Sabry
Published in: Optical Sensing and Detection IX, 2026
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.22162022

Peer reviewed articles (9)

Infrared Spectral Emissivity Dynamics of Surfaces Under Water Condensation

Author(s): Nicolas Lavielle, Ahmed M. Othman, Armande Hervé, Georges Hamaoui, Jipeng Fei, Jun Yan Tan, Frédéric Marty, Hong Li, Anne Mongruel, Daniel Beysens, Elyes Nefzaoui, Tarik Bourouina
Published in: Advanced Functional Materials, Issue 34, 2025, ISSN 1616-301X
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ADFM.202403316

Compact trace gas sensing via single-cavity balanced-detection interferometric cavity-assisted photothermal spectroscopy

Author(s): Johannes P. Waclawek, Harald Moser, Ufuk Yilmaz, Bernhard Lendl
Published in: Infrared Physics & Technology, Issue 155, 2026, ISSN 1350-4495
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.INFRARED.2026.106497

Black silicon nanostructures for solar energy conversion and photonic applications: a review

Author(s): Huaping Jia, Fengjia Xie, Elyes Nefzaoui, Tarik Bourouina, Heng Jiang, Xuming Zhang
Published in: Advanced Photonics, Issue 7, 2025, ISSN 2577-5421
Publisher: SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng
DOI: 10.1117/1.AP.7.3.034004

Effects of Extreme Mirror Downscaling on Open Micro‐Fabry–Perot Spectral Responses and Resonant Mode Profiles

Author(s): Ahmed Mahrous, Mohamed N. Ali, Mazen Erfan, Yasser M. Sabry, Diaa Khalil, Tarik Bourouina
Published in: Advanced Photonics Research, 2025, ISSN 2699-9293
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ADPR.202500089

Single Infrared Spectrum Enables Simultaneous Identification of (Bio)Chemical Nature and Particle Size of Microorganisms and Synthetic Microplastic Beads

Author(s): Ahmed M. Othman, Yasser M. Sabry, Diaa Khalil, Tarik Bourouina
Published in: Analytical Chemistry, Issue 95, 2023, ISSN 0003-2700
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.22099778

Balanced-detection interferometric cavity-assisted photothermal spectroscopy via collimating fiber-array integration

Author(s): Giulia Malvicini, Johannes P. Waclawek, Davide Pinto, Harald Moser b, Simone IadaKamil Gradkowski, Liam O’Faolain, Bernhard Lendl
Published in: Sensors & Actuators: B. Chemical, ISSN 0000-0000
Publisher: Sensors & Actuators: B. Chemical
DOI: 10.1016/J.SNB.2024.135766

Effects of Extreme Mirror Downscaling on Open Micro‐Fabry–Perot Spectral Responses and Resonant Mode Profiles

Author(s): Ahmed Mahrous, Mohamed N. Ali, Mazen Erfan, Yasser M. Sabry, Diaa Khalil, Tarik Bourouina
Published in: Advanced Photonics Research, Issue 6, 2025, ISSN 2699-9293
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ADPR.202500089

Versatile Control of Spectral Emissivity in Mid‐Infrared Metasurfaces via Silicon Microstructuring

Author(s): Kirollos Ernest Matta, Elyes Nefzaoui, Ahmed A. Elsayed, Armande Hervé, Martine Gnambodoe‐CapoChichi, Frédéric Marty, Mazen Erfan, Yasser M. Sabry, Abdelkrim Khelif, Tarik Bourouina
Published in: Advanced Optical Materials, Issue 14, 2026, ISSN 2195-1071
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ADOM.202502630

A disposable optofluidic micro-transmission cell with tailorable length for Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy of biological fluids

Author(s): Ahmed M. Othman, Yasser M. Sabry, Diaa Khalil, Bassam Saadany, Tarik Bourouina
Published in: Analytical Methods, Issue 16, 2026, ISSN 1759-9660
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.22083748