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Showing 1 to 20 of 317 for “"sensing applications"”.
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Nanomanufacturing for biological sensing applications
Over the past 10-15 years, there have been tremendous research efforts in the synthesis of nanomaterials with unique electronic properties. Much less work, however, has focused on the incorporation of the nanomaterials into electronic devices. In order for nanomaterials to have a technological …
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Responsive polymers for optical sensing applications
… signal. Based on this idea, this thesis presents sensing schemes which transduce the stimuli-induced variations in the solubility of polymer chains with covalently-bound fluorophores into a well-detectable fluorescence output. Benefiting from the principles of different photophysical phenomena, …
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Chemical sensing applications of fiber optics
A sensing method that can monitor metallic structures continuously would eventually produce safer metallic structures as well as a more efficient and economic way to monitor corrosion. A secondary focus of this research is the implementation of a fiber optic sensor to measure refractive indices of …
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Stimuli responsive polymer gels for sensing applications
This chapter (3) is based on simplifying the design template of an optical sensor through the multifunctionality imparted on it by an IL. The IL simplified polymer gel is termed an optode within this chapter as (a) it is prepared the same manner as optodes, (b) the IL performs many of the same …
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Laser-induced graphene for electrochemical sensing applications
… visible laser system, for electrochemical sensing applications. Polyimide (PI) was studied initially as a precursor, with the resultant LIG electrodes showing excellent electrochemical properties. Then LIG electrodes were bio-modified for the sensitive detection of Interleukin 6. Bioplastic …
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Satellite Image Processing for Remote Sensing Applications
… compression with particular reference to remote sensing imagery. The research described was carried out in four specific areas, namely, discrete cosine transform (DCT) for remote sensing imagery, lossless image compression based on conditional statistics, exploiting interband redundancy for …
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Functional dna: Biochemical/biophysical characterization & sensing applications
… their fundamental properties and to also develop applications for these molecules. Chapter 1 is an introduction to the works presented herein. Chapter 2 discusses conversion of aptamers into sensors for the determination of enantiomeric ratio, leading to a rapid method of detection with high …
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Polymers for electronics and chemical sensing applications
… for emerging electronics and chemical sensing applications. In Chapter 1, we present a general introduction to organic electronic materials and chemical sensory technologies. This chapter introduces many of the important principles that are explored throughout the rest of the text. In …
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Miniaturized Magnetostrictive Antennas for Wireless Sensing Applications
… antennas have been widely used for wireless sensing applications. Miniaturization of MES antennas can open new applications in in-vivo wireless sensing with higher spatial resolution and solve challenges involved in the miniaturization of conventional electromagnetic antennas. In this thesis …
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Sensing Applications of Silver and Gold Nanoparticles
Nanoscale materials have great applications in many areas. One of these applications is for manufacturing ultra-compact and efficient sensors for chemical and biological molecule detection. Noble metals, such as gold (Au) and silver (Ag), because of their distinguished optical property"localized …
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Sapphire optical fibers: splicing and sensing applications
… coupled with the advantages of optical fiber sensing, enhance the performance of these sensors for rugged use. Unfortunately, commercial sapphire fiber that is currently available has higher optical attenuation than silica fiber and is costlier. 0, it is prudent to use a small length of …
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MEMS Piezoresistive Micro-Cantilever Arrays for Sensing Applications
… for sample collection and analysis. In all applications, one of the key-points for a successful solution of the problem is the availability of detectors with high-sensitivity and selectivity to the chemical or biochemical parameters of interest. Moreover, an increased diffused on-field …
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Metalloporphyrin-decorated semiconducting oxides for gas sensing applications
… modified tin oxide gas sensors with various gas sensing properties have been reported in the past few decades. This project has created new solid-state materials of metalloporphyrin-decorated metal oxides for gas sensing applications, directed at the measurement of nitrogen dioxide at low …
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Nanoplasmonics and silicon nanophotonics devices for sensing applications
… will make it possible to accomplish a myriad of applications ranging from global security to healthcare and environmental sensing. This thesis studies silicon-based nanophotonics and noble metal based nanoplasmonics devices, and explores their utilities for energy, sensing, and photonics …
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Micro- and nano-cavity lasers for sensing applications
Lasers can be used for a multitude of sensing applications. This dissertation discusses two types of lasers for sensing applications. The use of an integrated vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser and photodetector as a position sensor is first detailed. Design, fabrication, and simulation of the …
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Generation models for internet of things sensing applications
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-03-28 without embargo terms
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Harnessing inorganic coordination chemistry for novel sensing applications
We explore strategies to exploit the rich chemical reactivity available to inorganic coordination complexes in order to realize chemiresistive detectors, electronic device elements that undergo a change in resistance in the presence of analyte, through either incorporation of a conductive material …
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Properties and sensing applications of long-period gratings
… in standard optical fibers are studied for their sensing characteristics. Long period grating-based refractive index sensors are obtained without etching the cladding of the fiber. It is demonstrated that long-period grating sensors can be implemented with simple demodulation schemes. Applications …
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