{"title":"Enhanced Sensitivity in Humidity Sensors based on Long Period Fiber Gratings","authors":"J. Corres, I. del Villar, I. Matías, F. Arregui","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2007.355752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2007.355752","url":null,"abstract":"In this work a new relative humidity sensor based on the deposition of a subwavelength thickness overlay of alumina (Al2O3) and poly(Sodium 4-StyreneSulfonate) (PSS) on the cladding of a Long-Period Fiber Grating (LPFG) is presented. This material has a lower refractive index compared to the refractive index of the optical fiber. This characteristic limits the sensitivity of the sensor. In order to enhance the sensitivity to humidity it has been intercalated a high refractive index layer, which permits to improve the sensitivity of LPFG sensors by a ratio of four. The method proposed here widens the design of LPFG based sensors characterized by overlays of low refractive index, and could be used for other applications such as the design of optical filters.","PeriodicalId":233838,"journal":{"name":"2006 5th IEEE Conference on Sensors","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131733521","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":"Label-free, capacitive immunosensor for protein detection","authors":"O. Gul, E. Heves, M. Kaynak, H. Basaga, Y. Gurbuz","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2007.355539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2007.355539","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a biosensor implementation for the detection of protein molecules using specific antibodies. Affinity sensors allow the detection and quantification of target molecules in complex mixtures by affinity-based interactions. Immobilized antibody molecules are the probes that bind to specific protein molecules (targets) in biological fluids. In this study, interdigitated electrodes in the form of capacitance on glass slide were designed/simulated and used to measure the changes in the dielectric properties of the interdigated capacitances.","PeriodicalId":233838,"journal":{"name":"2006 5th IEEE Conference on Sensors","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128833094","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. Mukhopadhyay, S. Karunanayaka, V. Suri, G. S. Gupta
{"title":"A Novel Bio-sensor for Non-invasive Meat Inspection","authors":"S. Mukhopadhyay, S. Karunanayaka, V. Suri, G. S. Gupta","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2007.355619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2007.355619","url":null,"abstract":"A novel bio-sensor for inspection of meat in a noninvasive and non-destructive way has been fabricated and developed. The sensor has the planar interdigital structure and the consecutive fingers are connected to positive and negative electrodes respectively. A novel sensor has been fabricated which provides improved results. The experimental results show the sensors have a great potential to estimate the fat content of meat in a non-invasive and nondestructive way.","PeriodicalId":233838,"journal":{"name":"2006 5th IEEE Conference on Sensors","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126625022","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}
Kyu-Jin Kim, Jong Hoon Lee, Su-Won Jang, Hyun Deok Kim, Jae-Won Song, Shin-Won Kang
{"title":"The Micro-Optic Mach-Zehnder Interferometry : Application to the UV Sensors","authors":"Kyu-Jin Kim, Jong Hoon Lee, Su-Won Jang, Hyun Deok Kim, Jae-Won Song, Shin-Won Kang","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2007.355750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2007.355750","url":null,"abstract":"We propose and demonstrate the UV sensor based on micro-optic Mach-Zehnder interferometer composed of two single mode fiber-pigtailed collimators and a polymer film with photochromic dye. Spirooxazine is used as a UV sensing material which is dispersed in polystyrene and coated on the glass substrate by spin coating method. The extinction ratio and the spectral position of minimum transmission wavelength of fabricated UV sensor can be controlled to be more than 28 dB and 50 nm, independently. The experiment was conducted to measure the wavelength shift of spectral response with UV radiation using the spirooxazine concentration in polystyrene 1.0 wt% and 1.5 wt%. Fabricated UV sensors have a sensitivity of 0.162 nm/mW and 0.316 nm/A.U respectively.","PeriodicalId":233838,"journal":{"name":"2006 5th IEEE Conference on Sensors","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126692548","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":"Inverse Wiedemann Effect Sensor with Pulse Excitation","authors":"M. Malátek, L. Kraus","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2007.355800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2007.355800","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, a new type of inverse Wiedemann effect (IWE) field sensor with combination of sinewave and DC current excitation was presented. In this paper, the investigation on the sensor driven by unipolar pulses is reported. The sensor was excited by pulses of 40 to 60 mAp with duration from 1 to 5 mus. The best sensitivity and linearity of the sensor were obtained for the pulses with the highest DC component. Additional improvement of the sensitivity was reached by tuning the pick-up coil by parallel capacitor. It has been also proven that controlled integration is more favorable detection technique for the pulse excitation than synchronous demodulation.","PeriodicalId":233838,"journal":{"name":"2006 5th IEEE Conference on Sensors","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126833604","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":"Integrated Optical Sensor Platform based on Evanescent Field Coupling for Biochemical Sensor Applications","authors":"Hyungseok Pang, P. LiKamWa, H. Cho","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2007.355916","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2007.355916","url":null,"abstract":"A photodetector integrated waveguide platform for diverse types of evanescent-wave sensor applications has been developed. Using this platform, surface plasmon resonance (SPR) detection has been demonstrated. The waveguide was made of SU-8 polymer as a guiding layer and siliconoxynitride (SiOXNy) as a cladding layer. The metal-semiconductor-metal (MSM) type photodetector coupled to the waveguide provides flexibility in design and fabrication compared to a pin (p-intrinsic-n) photodetector. We present a universal sensor architecture that can be used for evanescent-field based interrogation with (a) controllable refractive index and (b) integrated opto-electric signal conversion.","PeriodicalId":233838,"journal":{"name":"2006 5th IEEE Conference on Sensors","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123273819","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. Bianchi, E. Comini, G. Faglia, G. Sberveglieri, J. Arbiol, J. Morante
{"title":"Work Function as a Useful Feature for Development of SnO2 Nanowires Based Gas Sensing Devices","authors":"S. Bianchi, E. Comini, G. Faglia, G. Sberveglieri, J. Arbiol, J. Morante","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2007.355477","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2007.355477","url":null,"abstract":"Interest in nanowires of semiconducting oxides is exponentially grown in the last years, due to their attracting potential applications in electronic, optical and sensor field. We have focused our attention on the sensing properties of metal oxide nanostructures as gas sensors. Single crystal nanostructures were synthesized with the aim of exploring and studying their capabilities as nanosized sensors in form of multi nanowires sensors. We have studied for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, work function changes of tin oxide nanowires as a function the surrounding atmosphere. Furthermore we have compared the results obtained with conductance measurements in the same conditions.","PeriodicalId":233838,"journal":{"name":"2006 5th IEEE Conference on Sensors","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126464148","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":"Proposal of Coil Structure for Air-Core Induction Magnetometer","authors":"Kunihisa Tashiro","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2007.355778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2007.355778","url":null,"abstract":"Proposal of coil structure for air-core induction magnetometer is presented. The key point is the lamination factor which refers to the ratio of winding number compared with an ideal Brooks-coil. A decrease in lamination factor produces an increase in flux-to-voltage transfer ratio, and a decrease in noise floor level of the magnetometer. The size of coil defines the 20 dB/decade slope in frequency response of the magnetometer. While a magnetometer consisting of a coil with low lamination factor has high cutoff frequency, the sensitivity is better than of a coil with high lamination factor even if the frequency is lower than the cutoff frequency. Some magnetometers having few hundred ft/Hz1/2 are fabricated, and demonstrate the validity of the idea. This design method may allow us to develop an ultra-sensitive, high-spatial-resolution induction magnetometer comparable to SQUID sensor.","PeriodicalId":233838,"journal":{"name":"2006 5th IEEE Conference on Sensors","volume":"198 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125730808","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":"Gas Diagnosis by the application of system identification technique on the response of a thermally modulated semiconductor gas sensor","authors":"S.M.H. Golgoo, F. Hossein-Babaei","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2007.355725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2007.355725","url":null,"abstract":"A resistive gas sensor under the influence of a target gas is considered as a system. The input to this system is a time-varying voltage applied to the sensor's heating element, which modulates the operating temperature of the sensor. The output of the system is the transient response of the sensor to a contaminating gas present. The properties of the system change with respect to the nature and concentration of the contaminant. The system identification technique is employed for the determination of the major parameters of this sensing system for the first time. An unknown target gas was identified based on the features extracted from the related set of system parameters.","PeriodicalId":233838,"journal":{"name":"2006 5th IEEE Conference on Sensors","volume":"51 12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115979602","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}
H. Choi, L. Diebler, J. Ding, S. Bose, A. Bandyopadhyay
{"title":"Size Effect on the Device Performance of K31 Type pMUTs: Experiments and Equivalent Circuit Analysis","authors":"H. Choi, L. Diebler, J. Ding, S. Bose, A. Bandyopadhyay","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2007.355789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2007.355789","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of the current study is to investigate the size effect on the performance of piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers (pMUTs). pMUTs with twenty different dimensions were designed and fabricated. The length/width aspect ratios of the membranes range from 5 to 22. For each design, multiple samples were fabricated in order to collect statistically meaningful data. The performance of pMUTs was characterized by the impedance and phase angle measurements combined with equivalent circuit analysis. The circuit has four electrical components, L1 (motional inductance), C1 (motional capacitance), R1 (motional resistance), and C0 (parallel capacitance), and their values were determined by fitting the circuit equation to the experimental data. The experimental results showed that effective coupling coefficient ( keff 2) increase, and resonance frequency ( fs) and quality factor (Q ) decrease with increasing the width of the membrane.","PeriodicalId":233838,"journal":{"name":"2006 5th IEEE Conference on Sensors","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121214521","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}