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Sensors, Volume 20, Issue 11

June-1 2020 - 328 articles

Cover Story: The detection of ultrafine particulates produced by combustion engines and other sources is of significant interest to assessing ambient air quality and supporting related epidemiological studies. In this paper, weakly-coupled piezoelectric MEMS resonators are configured as high-resolution gravimetric sensors for the detection of ultrafine particulates. As a proof-of-principle, this paper experimentally demonstrates the application of these MEMS devices to the detection of diesel soot particles of approximately 100 nm diameter. The MEMS sensors employed in this work operate on the principle of vibration mode-localization, employing an amplitude ratio readout metric. Notably, gains in parametric sensitivity and output stability are obtained based on this approach, demonstrating suitability for long-term measurements. View this paper.
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Articles (328)

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
10,436 Views
25 Pages

10 June 2020

Development and validation of reliable environment perception systems for automated driving functions requires the extension of conventional physical test drives with simulations in virtual test environments. In such a virtual test environment, a per...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,806 Views
18 Pages

A Comprehensive Study of the Microclimate-Induced Conservation Risks in Hypogeal Sites: The Mithraeum of the Baths of Caracalla (Rome)

  • Francesca Frasca,
  • Elena Verticchio,
  • Alessia Caratelli,
  • Chiara Bertolin,
  • Dario Camuffo and
  • Anna Maria Siani

10 June 2020

The peculiar microclimate inside cultural hypogeal sites needs to be carefully investigated. This study presents a methodology that aimed at providing a user-friendly assessment of the frequently occurring hazards in such sites. A Risk Index was spec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,233 Views
17 Pages

Statistical Analysis of Bistatic Radar Ground Clutter for Different German Rural Environments

  • Michael Kohler,
  • Daniel W. O’Hagan,
  • Matthias Weiss,
  • David Wegner,
  • Josef Worms and
  • Oliver Bringmann

10 June 2020

This article presents the statistical analysis of bistatic radar rural ground clutter for different terrain types under low grazing angles. Compared to most state-of-the-art analysis, we present country-specific clutter analysis for subgroups of rura...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
7,878 Views
18 Pages

Marker-Based Movement Analysis of Human Body Parts in Therapeutic Procedure

  • Muhammad Hassan Khan,
  • Martin Zöller,
  • Muhammad Shahid Farid and
  • Marcin Grzegorzek

10 June 2020

Movement analysis of human body parts is momentous in several applications including clinical diagnosis and rehabilitation programs. The objective of this research is to present a low-cost 3D visual tracking system to analyze the movement of various...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,320 Views
17 Pages

10 June 2020

Pulse oximetry enables oxygen saturation estimation ( S p O 2) non-invasively in real time with few components and modest processing power. With the advent of affordable development kits dedicated to the monitoring of biosignals, capabilities on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,979 Views
21 Pages

10 June 2020

Contrary to its daytime counterpart, nighttime visible and near infrared (VIS/NIR) satellite imagery is limited in both spectral and spatial resolution. Nevertheless, the relevance of such systems is unquestioned with applications to, e.g., examine u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,652 Views
15 Pages

A 1-nS 1-V Sub-1-µW Linear CMOS OTA with Rail-to-Rail Input for Hz-Band Sensory Interfaces

  • Jacek Jakusz,
  • Waldemar Jendernalik,
  • Grzegorz Blakiewicz,
  • Miron Kłosowski and
  • Stanisław Szczepański

10 June 2020

The paper presents an operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) with low transconductance (0.62–6.28 nS) and low power consumption (28–270 nW) for the low-frequency analog front-ends in biomedical sensor interfaces. The proposed OTA im...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
2,904 Views
10 Pages

10 June 2020

We have demonstrated a highly sensitive moisture sensor that can detect water molecules, in addition to water droplets, and therefore, can predict dew condensation with high accuracy and high speed before the formation of water droplets, showing a be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
79 Citations
4,745 Views
17 Pages

A Genetic Algorithm Procedure for the Automatic Updating of FEM Based on Ambient Vibration Tests

  • Francesca Bianconi,
  • Georgios Panagiotis Salachoris,
  • Francesco Clementi and
  • Stefano Lenci

10 June 2020

The dynamic identification of the modal parameters of a structure, in order to gain control of its functionality under operating conditions, is currently under discussion from a scientific and technical point of views. The experimental observations o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
75 Citations
10,599 Views
24 Pages

A Calibration Procedure for Field and UAV-Based Uncooled Thermal Infrared Instruments

  • Bruno Aragon,
  • Kasper Johansen,
  • Stephen Parkes,
  • Yoann Malbeteau,
  • Samir Al-Mashharawi,
  • Talal Al-Amoudi,
  • Cristhian F. Andrade,
  • Darren Turner,
  • Arko Lucieer and
  • Matthew F. McCabe

10 June 2020

Thermal infrared cameras provide unique information on surface temperature that can benefit a range of environmental, industrial and agricultural applications. However, the use of uncooled thermal cameras for field and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) b...

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