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Sensors, Volume 11, Issue 5

May 2011 - 55 articles

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Articles (55)

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
8,021 Views
14 Pages

2 May 2011

Sparse representation (SR) algorithms can be implemented for high-resolution direction of arrival (DOA) estimation. Additionally, SR can effectively separate the coherent signal sources because the spectrum estimation is based on the optimization tec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
11,272 Views
13 Pages

28 April 2011

This study developed an electronic-nose sensor node based on a polymer-coated surface acoustic wave (SAW) sensor array. The sensor node comprised an SAW sensor array, a frequency readout circuit, and an Octopus II wireless module. The sensor array wa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
11,150 Views
26 Pages

A New Data Mining Scheme Using Artificial Neural Networks

  • S. M. Kamruzzaman and
  • A. M. Jehad Sarkar

28 April 2011

Classification is one of the data mining problems receiving enormous attention in the database community. Although artificial neural networks (ANNs) have been successfully applied in a wide range of machine learning applications, they are however oft...

  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
10,714 Views
8 Pages

Investigation of a Photoelectrochemical Passivated ZnO-Based Glucose Biosensor

  • Ching-Ting Lee,
  • Ying-Shuo Chiu,
  • Shu-Ching Ho and
  • Yao-Jung Lee

28 April 2011

A vapor cooling condensation system was used to deposit high quality intrinsic ZnO thin films and intrinsic ZnO nanorods as the sensing membrane of extended-gate field-effect-transistor (EGFET) glucose biosensors. The sensing sensitivity of the resul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
18,297 Views
18 Pages

Soft Water Level Sensors for Characterizing the Hydrological Behaviour of Agricultural Catchments

  • Armand Crabit,
  • François Colin,
  • Jean Stéphane Bailly,
  • Hervé Ayroles and
  • François Garnier

28 April 2011

An innovative soft water level sensor is proposed to characterize the hydrological behaviour of agricultural catchments by measuring rainfall and stream flows. This sensor works as a capacitor coupled with a capacitance to frequency converter and mea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,397 Views
14 Pages

A Novel Ionic Polymer Metal ZnO Composite (IPMZC)

  • Sang-Mun Kim,
  • Rashi Tiwari and
  • Kwang J. Kim

28 April 2011

The presented research introduces a new Ionic Polymer-Metal-ZnO Composite (IPMZC) demonstrating photoluminescence (PL)-quenching on mechanical bending or application of an electric field. The newly fabricated IPMZC integrates the optical properties o...

  • Review
  • Open Access
98 Citations
12,036 Views
14 Pages

28 April 2011

Potentiometric sensors are attractive tools for the fabrication of various electronic tongues that can be used in wide area of applications, ranging from foodstuff recognition to environmental monitoring and medical diagnostics. Their main advantages...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
10,024 Views
19 Pages

Validation of a Phase-Mass Characterization Concept and Interface for Acoustic Biosensors

  • Yeison Montagut,
  • José V. García,
  • Yolanda Jiménez,
  • Carmen March,
  • Ángel Montoya and
  • Antonio Arnau

28 April 2011

Acoustic wave resonator techniques are widely used in in-liquid biochemical applications. The main challenges remaining are the improvement of sensitivity and limit of detection, as well as multianalysis capabilities and reliability. The sensitivity...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
8,998 Views
29 Pages

27 April 2011

We consider a problem of high-resolution array radar/SAR imaging formalized in terms of a nonlinear ill-posed inverse problem of nonparametric estimation of the power spatial spectrum pattern (SSP) of the random wavefield scattered from a remotely se...

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