Experiments are underway on the Alcator C Tokamak with over 1 MW of RF power injected into the plasma at a frequency of 4.6 GHz to study both heating and current drive effects. During these studies, impurity generation from limiter structures has been observed. The RF induced impurity influx is a strongly nonlinear function of net injected power. For Prf < 500 kW, only small effects are seen. A...

A colloidal graphite-coated emitter is introduced for sheathless capillary electrophoresis/nanoelectrospray ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (CE/ESI-TOFMS). The conductive coating can be produced by brushing the capillary tip to construct a fine layer of 2-propanol-based colloidal graphite. The fabrication involves a single step and requires less than 2 min. Full cure properties deve...

An optical multi-sensor system based on the excited-state lifetime of luminophore doped xerogels is described. The system is based on the novel concept of combining addressable surface-mount light-emitting diode (SM-LED) arrays with doped xerogel thin films; each SM-LED in the array is coated with a different xerogel-based sensor element. Each sensor element exhibits a unique response profile t...

Control of glucose concentration has tremendous significance in medical diagnosis, pharmaceuticals, food, and fermentation industries. Herein, we report on the fabrication a facile, low-cost, sensitive enzyme-based amperometric sensor using electrochemically deposited polyaniline (PANI) film graphite electrode. PANI was from an aqueous solution 0.2 M aniline 1.0 hydrocholoric acid (HCl) by cycl...

We developed a highly sensitive humidity sensor based on the combination of ultrahigh-frequency film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR) and nano-assembled polyelectrolyte (PET) thin films. The water molecule absorption efficiency was optimized by forming loosely-packed PET nanostructures. Then, the humidity sensing characteristics were analyzed in terms of sensitivity, linearity, reversibility, sta...