{"title":"Photonic crystal cavities for integrated sensing","authors":"M. Scullion, T. Krauss, A. Di Falco","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6985143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6985143","url":null,"abstract":"Slotted photonic crystals have shown in promise in the field of optical biosensing due to their ability to strongly confine light within the analyte itself. Recently, we have shown optimised coupling of light into the slot, integration with microfluidics, and the functionalisation and sensitive detection of binding on the crystal surface. We now show that these slotted photonic crystals can not only be used as the sensing element, but could also form part of the spectral read-out; the important next step to make a true lab-on-a-chip. In addition, we have been exploring other photonic crystal cavity designs and modes of operation for different types of biosensor. For example, multi-cavity arrays and out-of plane excitation of guided mode resonances can enable sensing at multiple locations within a small area. We review the principles of our various photonic crystal sensors, and our recent work to tackle real biological problems.","PeriodicalId":13244,"journal":{"name":"IEEE SENSORS 2014 Proceedings","volume":"73 1","pages":"889-890"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87997808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investigation of an encircling Pulsed Eddy Current probe for corrosion detection","authors":"S. Majidnia, R. Nilavalan, J. Rudlin","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6985129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6985129","url":null,"abstract":"Pulsed Eddy Current (PEC) is an emerging nondestructive testing and evaluation (NDT & E) technique and has been used for a wide range of conductive materials. Existing Pulsed Eddy Current probes use surface type probes on pipes. For this type of probes, it is assumed that the diameter of the pipe is significantly larger than that of the excitation coil and the pipe wall is assumed as a plate. In this work, a new encircling pulsed eddy current probe is proposed. The system aims to increase the scanned area by taking advantage of an encircling coil to scan the complete circumference of a pipe with a single pulse. The proposed system consists of an encircling driver coil, Giant magnetoresistance (GMR) magnetic field sensors, a conditioning circuit, a data acquisition card connected to a computer with Matlab software for signal processing and presentation.","PeriodicalId":13244,"journal":{"name":"IEEE SENSORS 2014 Proceedings","volume":"1 1","pages":"835-838"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86271841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A self-powered and efficient rectifier for electromagnetic energy harvesters","authors":"H. Uluşan, O. Zorlu, A. Muhtaroğlu, H. Kulah","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6984963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6984963","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an interface circuit for efficient rectification of voltages from electromagnetic (EM) energy harvesters operating with very low vibration frequencies. The interface utilizes a dual-rail AC/DC doubler which benefits from the full cycle of the input AC voltage, and minimizes the forward bias voltage drop with an active diode structure. The active diodes are powered through an AC/DC quadrupler with diode connected (passive) transistors. The interface system has been validated to drive 22 μA load at 1.1 V, with 86% efficiency, when 0.1g vibration is applied to an in house energy harvester at 8 Hz. The circuit is functional down to 150 mV input. The rectified voltage deviates at most 38 mV from the theoretical value of twice the input peak voltage. The system was demonstrated for feasibility in portable applications through a prototype placed to the waist of a jogger.","PeriodicalId":13244,"journal":{"name":"IEEE SENSORS 2014 Proceedings","volume":"2915 1","pages":"182-185"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86521999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. De Vito, M. Salvato, E. Massera, A. Buonanno, M. Miglietta, G. Fattoruso, G. Di Francia
{"title":"Artificial olfaction tool and techniques for safety controls in aerospace assembly and maintenance","authors":"S. De Vito, M. Salvato, E. Massera, A. Buonanno, M. Miglietta, G. Fattoruso, G. Di Francia","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6985283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6985283","url":null,"abstract":"Fast response and reliability are mandatory requirements in non- destructive tests specifically in aerospace industry, for safety and efficiency reasons. Currently, the adoption of composite materials, a fundamental technology for the green aircraft concept, is limited by the lack of a validated NDT technique for the assessment of adhesive bonds quality. The latter is hampered by panels surface contamination. E-noses equipped with PARC algorithms appear a promising choice to obtain a rapid surface contamination state assessment but their dependability should be carefully analyzed. In this paper, combining real time classifiers, we show how to obtain a rapid first-hand response for the operator, retaining the possibility of increasing accuracy awaiting for the end of the e-nose measurement cycle. A reject option is casted on the base of classifier self-perceived reliability to nullify false negatives while keeping the false positive rate at minimum.","PeriodicalId":13244,"journal":{"name":"IEEE SENSORS 2014 Proceedings","volume":"5 1","pages":"1435-1438"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90097186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On-chip flexible multi-layer sensors for Human stress monitoring","authors":"S. Yoon, Jai Kyoung Sim, Young‐Ho Cho","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6985133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6985133","url":null,"abstract":"We present a flexible multimodal stress sensor, where a skin temperature sensor, a skin conductance sensor, and a pulse wave sensor are integrated; thereby minimizing skin contact area as well as increasing device flexibility for applications to human stress monitoring in daily life. We design and fabricate the multilayered stress sensor, and experimentally verify the sensor performance for the simultaneous measurement of skin temperature, skin conductance and arterial pulse wave. The skin contact area of the flexible multimodal stress sensor has been reduced the 0.8% of the conventional stress measurement device; thus, demonstrating sensor's potential for multimodal Human bio-signal monitoring applications, such as mobile electronics and wearable devices with improved wearing comfort.","PeriodicalId":13244,"journal":{"name":"IEEE SENSORS 2014 Proceedings","volume":"22 1","pages":"851-854"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90170343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Liangliang Chen, Zhanxin Zhou, N. Xi, Ruiguo Yang, Bo Song, Zhiyong Sun, Chengzhi Su
{"title":"Super resolution infrared camera using single carbon nanotube photodetector","authors":"Liangliang Chen, Zhanxin Zhou, N. Xi, Ruiguo Yang, Bo Song, Zhiyong Sun, Chengzhi Su","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6985181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6985181","url":null,"abstract":"Single pixel camera is one of most attractive applications of compressive sensing research, which opens up a new window for image capturing. It will make silicon blind wavelength camera affordable. However, the acquired images are low resolution compared to commercialized single-lens reflex visible camera due to the limited computation and accuracy of compressive sensing. In this work, by analyzing optics of single pixel imaging system, we present a novel design for single pixel camera, which allows for recovering super resolution image by carbon nanotube based infrared photodetector. It samples multiple angular images through different pin holes so that more information is captured. Then, a robust reconstruction algorithm is applied to recover high resolution image. The performance of high resolution single pixel camera can achieve million pixels image from angular images.","PeriodicalId":13244,"journal":{"name":"IEEE SENSORS 2014 Proceedings","volume":"1 1","pages":"1038-1041"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90182828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"High level modeling and simulation of a sensor system for vapor trace detection of Explosives","authors":"D. Strle","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6985254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6985254","url":null,"abstract":"In this work we describe a high-level Matlab model of a sensor system for vapor trace detection of different molecules in the air using an array of differently functionalised capacitive sensors and an extremely sensitive electronic detection system. The model includes the adsorption/desorption process of differently modified sensors in response to different molecules in the air around the sensors, together with high level model of a low noise analog and digital signal processing electronics. The proposed model makes it possible to study the interactions, selectivity, and sensitivity of the sensor system in an efficient way, and forms the basis for the efficient design of modules of the sensor system for vapor trace detection of different molecules in the air.","PeriodicalId":13244,"journal":{"name":"IEEE SENSORS 2014 Proceedings","volume":"15 1","pages":"1320-1323"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79633755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Antenna arrays for RSS based indoor localization systems","authors":"D. Laurijssen, J. Steckel, M. Weyn","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6984983","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6984983","url":null,"abstract":"In current state-of-the-art received signal strength-based localization systems a single omnidirectional antenna is often used on the receiver nodes in the wireless network. Using receiver nodes equipped with these antennas will result in received signal strength distributions with little spatial variation. Since there are less unique data points, there will be ambiguity present in the location estimate. We therefore wish to increase the diversity in the received signal strength value distribution throughout the environment by employing an antenna array. This will result in received signal strength distributions containing less ambiguities in the location estimate. Using a methodology based on mutual information, the proposed localization system using antenna arrays in the fixed receiver nodes of the network and a probabilistic radio frequency pattern matching algorithm is evaluated. This evaluation shows that the amount of ambiguities in the location estimates is reduced compared to the same localization system using omnidirectional antennas in the fixed receiver nodes.","PeriodicalId":13244,"journal":{"name":"IEEE SENSORS 2014 Proceedings","volume":"31 1","pages":"261-264"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81165492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Varga, Zs Berczes, L. Illes, Gy Safrany, I. Bársony, P. Furjes, R. E. Gyurcsányi, G. Jágerszki
{"title":"Fluidically and electrically integrated solid state nanopore arrays for biochemical sensing","authors":"M. Varga, Zs Berczes, L. Illes, Gy Safrany, I. Bársony, P. Furjes, R. E. Gyurcsányi, G. Jágerszki","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6985138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6985138","url":null,"abstract":"Solid-state nanopore arrays were integrated into complex microfluidic environment enabling both fluidic and electrical addressing and their applicability was proved as biosensor by detection avidin-biotin and also human immunoglobulin-E (hIgE) specific aptamer and hIgE binding process using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS).","PeriodicalId":13244,"journal":{"name":"IEEE SENSORS 2014 Proceedings","volume":"27 1","pages":"870-872"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88786524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pt/WO3 microsensor grown by cold wall reactor Aerosol Assisted Chemical Vapor Deposition for C6H6 and NO2 detection","authors":"F. Annanouch, Z. Haddi, E. Llobet, S. Vallejos","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6984932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6984932","url":null,"abstract":"Aerosol Assisted Chemical Vapor Deposition (AACVD) induced via localized heating of the gas sensor shows high flexibility, low cost and capability for the direct synthesis of low-dimensional metal oxide nanostructures in a wide scale of substrates. In this work, we report for the first time the successful co-deposition of tungsten trioxide nanowires decorated with Pt nanoparticles (Pt/WO3) in a single step, via AACVD method employing the self-heating capability of MEMS transducer platforms. E-SEM and XRD analysis have been used to investigate the morphology and the composition of the nanostructures grown. The fabricated gas microsensors have been tested toward different concentration of NO2 and C6H6. In comparison with our previous work, these new results show a clear improvement in the synthesis of the nanostructures, a highly enhanced sensitivity towards small concentrations of benzene, and good sensitivity and selectivity toward NO2.","PeriodicalId":13244,"journal":{"name":"IEEE SENSORS 2014 Proceedings","volume":"11 1","pages":"58-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89279688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}