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Sensors, Volume 13, Issue 3

March 2013 - 80 articles

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Articles (80)

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
10,326 Views
12 Pages

21 March 2013

A silver nanoparticle-modified evanescent field optical fiber sensor based on a MEMS microchannel chip has been successfully fabricated. Experimental results show that the sensor response decreases linearly with increasing concentration of analyte. O...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,837 Views
20 Pages

20 March 2013

This work addresses the problem of recovering multi-echo T1 or T2 weighted images from their partial K-space scans. Recent studies have shown that the best results are obtained when all the multi-echo images are reconstructed by simultaneously exploi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
9,495 Views
19 Pages

Measurements of Tropospheric NO2 in Romania Using a Zenith-Sky Mobile DOAS System and Comparisons with Satellite Observations

  • Daniel-Eduard Constantin,
  • Alexis Merlaud,
  • Michel Van Roozendael,
  • Mirela Voiculescu,
  • Caroline Fayt,
  • François Hendrick,
  • Gaia Pinardi and
  • Lucian Georgescu

20 March 2013

In this paper we present a new method for retrieving tropospheric NO2 Vertical Column Density (VCD) from zenith-sky Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy (DOAS) measurements using mobile observations. This method was used during three days in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
66 Citations
8,894 Views
10 Pages

Simple Fabrication Process for 2D ZnO Nanowalls and Their Potential Application as a Methane Sensor

  • Tse-Pu Chen,
  • Sheng-Po Chang,
  • Fei-Yi Hung,
  • Shoou-Jinn Chang,
  • Zhan-Shuo Hu and
  • Kuan-Jen Chen

20 March 2013

Two-dimensional (2D) ZnO nanowalls were prepared on a glass substrate by a low-temperature thermal evaporation method, in which the fabrication process did not use a metal catalyst or the pre-deposition of a ZnO seed layer on the substrate. The nanow...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
10,071 Views
24 Pages

A Transmission Power Optimization with a Minimum Node Degree for Energy-Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks with Full-Reachability

  • Yi-Ting Chen,
  • Mong-Fong Horng,
  • Chih-Cheng Lo,
  • Shu-Chuan Chu,
  • Jeng-Shyang Pan and
  • Bin-Yih Liao

20 March 2013

Transmission power optimization is the most significant factor in prolonging the lifetime and maintaining the connection quality of wireless sensor networks. Un-optimized transmission power of nodes either interferes with or fails to link neighboring...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
9,866 Views
11 Pages

20 March 2013

Various parts of Piper nigrum, Piper betle and Gnetum gnemon are used as food sources by Malaysians. The purpose of this study is to examine the anti-quorum sensing (anti-QS) properties of P. nigrum, P. betle and G. gnemon extracts. The hexane, ch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
9,593 Views
15 Pages

J3Gen: A PRNG for Low-Cost Passive RFID

  • Joan Melià-Seguí,
  • Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro and
  • Jordi Herrera-Joancomartí

19 March 2013

Pseudorandom number generation (PRNG) is the main security tool in low-cost passive radio-frequency identification (RFID) technologies, such as EPC Gen2. We present a lightweight PRNG design for low-cost passive RFID tags, named J3Gen. J3Gen is based...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
11,113 Views
17 Pages

A New Adaptive Self-Tuning Fourier Coefficients Algorithm for Periodic Torque Ripple Minimization in Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors (PMSM)

  • Alfonso Gómez-Espinosa,
  • Víctor M. Hernández-Guzmán,
  • Manuel Bandala-Sánchez,
  • Hugo Jiménez-Hernández,
  • Edgar A. Rivas-Araiza,
  • Juvenal Rodríguez-Reséndiz and
  • Gilberto Herrera-Ruíz

19 March 2013

A New Adaptive Self-Tuning Fourier Coefficients Algorithm for Periodic Torque Ripple Minimization in Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors (PMSM) Torque ripple occurs in Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors (PMSMs) due to the non-sinusoidal flux dens...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,244 Views
30 Pages

19 March 2013

This paper presents a novel VLSI architecture for the training of radial basis function (RBF) networks. The architecture contains the circuits for fuzzy C-means (FCM) and the recursive Least Mean Square (LMS) operations. The FCM circuit is designed f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
8,090 Views
11 Pages

19 March 2013

Electrochemical devices using as substrates copier grade transparency sheets are developed by using ion conducting Nafion:polypyrrole mixtures, deposited between gold bottom electrodes and upper electrodes based on Multi Walled Carbon Nanotubes (MWCN...

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