Novel boron-containing drugs have recently been suggested as a new class of pharmaceuticals. However, the majority of current boron-detection techniques require expensive facilities and/or tedious pretreatment methods. Thus, to develop a novel and convenient detection method for boron-based pharmaceuticals, imine-type boron-chelating-ligands were previously synthesized for use in a fluorescent ...

In structural health monitoring (SHM) and control, the structure can be instrumented with a redundant sensor network, which can be utilized in sensor fault diagnosis. In this study, the objective is to detect, identify, and quantify a sensor fault using the structural response data from the sensor network. Seven different sensor fault types are investigated and modelled: bias, gain, drifting, p...

This paper presents an on-chip all-digital sensor architecture to capture process variation information. The proposed solution is based on the concept of variation amplification and uses the propagation delay measurement in a chain composed of series connected pass-transistors. The proposed sensor circuit is able to capture the local variation of nMOS and pMOS transistor individually. A sensor ...

A highly sensitive fluorescent sensor for trace amounts of water based on photo-induced electron transfer (PET) has been developed and the PET-type sensor-doped polymer films moisture droplets were prepared.

Full optical fiber current sensor phase modulation is the use of magnetic field made the refraction different of left-handed and right-handed circularly polarized light, and the linearly polarized light can be decomposed into a left-handed and right-handed circularly polarized light. The paper proposes research and design of reflective optical fiber current sensor based on improved phase modula...

A simple refractive index sensor based on a Michelson interferometer in a single-mode fiber is constructed and demonstrated. The sensor consists of a single symmetrically abrupt taper region in a short piece of single-mode fiber that is terminated by approximately 500 nm thick gold coating. The sensitivity of the new sensor is similar to that of a long-period-grating-type sensor, and its ease o...

Abstract Over the last two decades, the fibre optic technology has passed through many analytical stages. Some commercially available fibre optic sensors are being used for automation in mechanical and industrial environments. They are also used for instrumentation and controls. In the present work, a fibre optic displacement sensor is presented. This type of sensor is an intrinsic sensor. In t...