Diffraction gratings integrated with microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) sensors offer displacement measurements with subnanometer sensitivity. However, the sensitivity of the interferometric readout may drop significantly based on the gap between the grating and the reference surface. A two-wavelength (2-λ) readout method was previously tested using a single MEMS sensor for illustrating incr...

Due to their extreme sensitivity to refractive index changes, surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensors have long been established as extremely valuable tools for biosensing. In the past few years researchers have begun investigating various other metallic nanostructures as candidates for localized SPR (LSPR) sensing. Although LSPR is not nearly as sensitive to bulk refractive index changes as st...

This paper reports a novel, low-cost, moderately sensitive, meso-scale accelerometer fabricated with spring steel foil and equipped with either a Hall Effect-based proximity sensor or a capacitive sensor. Since the sensitivity of a Hall Effect sensor is low, we attach a displacement-amplifying compliant mechanism (DaCM) to the proof-mass of the accelerometer to increase the overall sensitivity ...

We demonstrate numerically that the theoretical maximum sensitivity of a ring-coupled Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) optimized as a sensor is about 30% greater than the optimized sensitivity of a conventional single-bus ring sensor with an identical ring perimeter and loss. The ring-coupled MZI sensor also achieves its greater sensitivity with a 25% lower circulating power, which is useful f...

A biomimetic sensor based on an Ag electrode and a smart material TPhPFe3+/Al2O3 has been developed. It found that sensor, where (Ag) is used as electrode, exhibits high sensitivity, stability reproducibility. study was carried out to detect trace concentrations of H2O2 in aqueous solution TPhPFe3+/Al2O3//Ag sensor. For the sensitivity threshold 10-8 wt.%

A graphene-based long-period fiber grating (LPFG) surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor is proposed. A monolayer of graphene is coated onto the Ag film surface of the LPFG SPR sensor, which increases the intensity of the evanescent field on the surface of the fiber and thereby enhances the interaction between the SPR wave and molecules. Such features significantly improve the sensitivity of th...

Thermistors are very commonly used for narrow temperature-range high-resolution applications, such as in medicine, calorimetry, and near ambient temperature measurements. In particular, Negative Temperature Coefficient (NTC) thermistor is very inexpensive and highly sensitive, whose sensing temperature range and sensitivity are highly limited due to the intrinsic nonlinearity and self-heating p...

Effects of surface chemical modification with sodium silicate on the gas-sensing properties of F-doped SnO2 gas sensor designed and fabricated employing micro-electro mechanical system (MEMS) technology were investigated. Gas sensing properties of the sensor were checked against combustible gases like H2, CO, CH4 and C3H8 at a heater voltage of 0.7 V. The H2 sensitivity of the surface modified ...

Carbon paste electrode was modified by disodium 2,4-diamino-7-methylbenzo[g] pteridine-5,10-dioxide to fabricate a sensor for potentiometric determination of vanadyl ion (VO2+) in aqueous medium. The new ligand was synthesized in three steps with high yield. The optimal composition of the carbon paste was made of graphite powder (64.5%), ionophore (16.6%), paraffin oil (17.8%), a...