We are developing prototype chip-scale low-power integrated-optic gas-phase chemical sensors based on infrared Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopy (TDLAS). TDLAS is able to sense many gas phase chemicals with high sensitivity and selectivity. Using semiconductor fabrication and assembly techniques, the low-cost integrated optic TDLAS technology will permit mass production of sensors tha...

Different glasses suitable for temperature sensing in the fiber optic sensors were studied in this article. The phase changes for eight different glass materials were calculated and results were compared. Our results showed that extra dense flint glass is the most sensitive one, while pure silica results in the lowest phase change. In another study the effect of wavelength on the phase variatio...

We examined the dynamics of cellulase binding and activity on thin films of cellulose by using a piezoelectric sensing device (Quartz Crystal Microbalance with Dissipation monitoring, QCM-D). Upon exposure of the cellulose film to enzyme mixtures, a reduction in the sensor’s frequency due to molecular binding is observed. Thereafter the frequency increases due to the loss of effective mass caus...

A capacitive tactile sensor and a thermal sensor that can be combined into one compact device with both modalities are illustrated. The tactile sensing portion is composed of an 8 8 array of capacitive cells. By using as thermoresistors the rows’ traces of the matrix of the capacitive tactile array sensor thermal sensing is obtained. This allows the detection of the gradient of the temperature....

Mechanically deformable devices and sensors enable conformal coverage of electronic systems on curved and soft surfaces. Sensors utilizing liquids confined in soft templates as the sensing component present the ideal platform for such applications, as liquids are inherently more deformable than solids. However, to date, liquid-based devices have been limited to metal lines based on a single-liq...

This study production of smart house to show the entire system, the use of self-sensing module and the 8051 monocrystal chip processing sensor signals, the success achieved with the measurement of temperature, humidity, illumination, carbon monoxide sensor module. This study purposes the smart house, remote monitoring and automatic system based on consistency algorithm for multi-sensor optimiza...

The polarimetric sensing characteristics of multi-mode-fiber based tilted fiber Bragg gratings (MMF-TFBG) have been analyzed and experimentally demonstrated. The larger diameter fiber core and graded index core/cladding profile enable the tilted gratings to excite multiple high-order core modes with significantly different polarization dependence and to form a well-defined "comb" of spectrally ...

The analogue of electromagnetically induced transparency in optical methods has shown great potential in slow light and sensing applications. Here, we experimentally demonstrated a coupled resonator induced transparency system with three cascaded ring coupled resonators in a silicon chip. The structure was modeled by using the transfer matrix method. Influences of various parameters including c...