Flexible and Transparent Polymer-Based Optical Humidity Sensor

Silver nanoparticle polymer composite based humidity sensor.

Silver nanoparticles were synthesised by a chemical reduction process in order to produce an aqueous colloidal dispersion. The resulting colloids were then characterised by a combination of UV-Vis spectroscopy, dynamic light scattering, X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy and the nanoparticles were found to have an average diameter of 20-22 nm. The Ag/polymer nanocomposites w...

Esa Based Fiber Optical Humidity Sensor

Fabrication and investigation of a transparent and flexible loudspeaker and microphone based on carbon nanotube

Transparent acoustic sensors and actuators are a new generation of acoustic transducers that can create an evolution in the microphone and loudspeakers industries. These transducers with properties like transparency, flexibility, flatness, very low weight and thickness have a great potential for various applications like public speakers, active noise cancelation systems, displays, cell phones a...

Optical Fiber Humidity Sensor Based on Lossy Mode Resonances

A novel optical fiber humidity sensor based on lossy mode resonances (LMR) has been developed. LMRs are supported here by a thin Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) coating fabricated onto an optical fiber core via a sol-gel dip coating. ITO coated optical fiber devices present a resonant maximum absorption peak in the infra-red region which is shifted to higher wavelengths when the refractive index of the ...

Optical fiber humidity sensor based on evanescent-wave scattering.

The phenomenon of evanescent-wave scattering (EWS) is used to design an optical-fiber humidity sensor. Porous solgel silica (PSGS) coated on the surface of a silica optical-fiber core scatters evanescent waves that penetrate the coating layer. Water molecules in the gas phase surrounding the optical fiber can be absorbed into the inner surface of the pores of the porous silica. The absorbed wat...