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Sensors, Volume 13, Issue 7

July 2013 - 81 articles

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Articles (81)

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
9,986 Views
30 Pages

Fixed-Base Comb with Window-Non-Adjacent Form (NAF) Method for Scalar Multiplication

  • Hwajeong Seo,
  • Hyunjin Kim,
  • Taehwan Park,
  • Yeoncheol Lee,
  • Zhe Liu and
  • Howon Kim

23 July 2013

Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) is one of the most promising public-key techniques in terms of short key size and various crypto protocols. For this reason, many studies on the implementation of ECC on resource-constrained devices within a practica...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,947 Views
9 Pages

23 July 2013

An optical fiber sensor based on surface plasmon resonance (SPR) is proposed for monitoring the thickness of deposited nano-thin films. A side-polished multimode SPR optical fiber sensor with an 850 nm-LD is used as the transducing element for real-t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,477 Views
14 Pages

Further In-vitro Characterization of an Implantable Biosensor for Ethanol Monitoring in the Brain

  • Ottavio Secchi,
  • Manuel Zinellu,
  • Ylenia Spissu,
  • Marco Pirisinu,
  • Gianfranco Bazzu,
  • Rossana Migheli,
  • Maria Speranza Desole,
  • Robert D. O'Neill,
  • Pier Andrea Serra and
  • Gaia Rocchitta

23 July 2013

Ethyl alcohol may be considered one of the most widespread central nervous system (CNS) depressants in Western countries. Because of its toxicological and neurobiological implications, the detection of ethanol in brain extracellular fluid (ECF) is of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,273 Views
11 Pages

Temperature-Insensitive Bend Sensor Using Entirely Centered Erbium Doping in the Fiber Core

  • Harith Ahmad,
  • Mohd Zamani Zulkifli,
  • Farah Diana Muhammad,
  • Julian Md Samangun,
  • Hairul Azhar Abdul-Rashid and
  • Sulaiman Wadi Harun

23 July 2013

A fiber based bend sensor using a uniquely designed Bend-Sensitive Erbium Doped Fiber (BSEDF) is proposed and demonstrated. The BSEDF has two core regions, namely an undoped outer region with a diameter of about 9.38 μm encompassing a doped, inner co...

  • Correction
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,771 Views
2 Pages

23 July 2013

The authors would like to correct the acknowledgements of this article [1] as follows: [...]

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
9,768 Views
24 Pages

22 July 2013

The newly proposed in-plane resonant nano-electro-mechanical (IP R-NEM) sensor, that includes a doubly clamped suspended beam and two side electrodes, achieved a mass sensitivity of less than zepto g/Hz based on analytical and numerical analyses. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
7,463 Views
8 Pages

Effect of Tensile Strain on Thermal Conductivity in Monolayer Graphene Nanoribbons: A Molecular Dynamics Study

  • Jianwei Zhang,
  • Xiaodong He,
  • Lin Yang,
  • Guoqiang Wu,
  • Jianjun Sha,
  • Chengyu Hou,
  • Cunlu Yin,
  • Acheng Pan,
  • Zhongzhou Li and
  • Yubai Liu

22 July 2013

The thermal conductivity of monolayer graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with different tensile strain is investigated by using a nonequilibrium molecular dynamics method. Significant increasing amplitude of the molecular thermal vibration, molecular potent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
9,516 Views
18 Pages

A Mobile Robots Experimental Environment with Event-Based Wireless Communication

  • María Guinaldo,
  • Ernesto Fábregas,
  • Gonzalo Farias,
  • Sebastián Dormido-Canto,
  • Dictino Chaos,
  • José Sánchez and
  • Sebastián Dormido

22 July 2013

An experimental platform to communicate between a set of mobile robots through a wireless network has been developed. The mobile robots get their position through a camera which performs as sensor. The video images are processed in a PC and a Waspmot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
8,747 Views
21 Pages

22 July 2013

Schottky CdTe X-ray detectors exhibit excellent spectroscopic performance but suffer from instabilities. Hence it is of extreme relevance to investigate their electrical properties. A systematic study of the electric field distribution and the curren...

  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
9,422 Views
29 Pages

22 July 2013

The Chinese BeiDou system (BDS), having different types of satellites, is an important addition to the ever growing system of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). It consists of Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) satellites, Inclined Geosynchrono...

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