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Sensors, Volume 20, Issue 23

December-1 2020 - 295 articles

Cover Story: Conventional mechanical Fourier transform spectrometers (FTSs) measure absorption and dispersion spectra of gas-phase samples with very long measurement times to obtain time-resolved spectra with a good spectral resolution. Here, we present a mid-infrared dual-comb-based FTS providing broadband absorption and dispersion spectra with a spectral resolution of 5 GHz, a temporal resolution of 20 μs, and a wavelength coverage of 300 cm−1 in a measurement time of a few minutes. The spectrometer is used to monitor the reaction dynamics of methane and ethane in an electrical plasma discharge in dynamic conditions. The results demonstrate a new analytical approach for measuring rapid molecular changes in chemical reactions. This approach is interesting for chemical kinetic research, in particular for the combustion and plasma analysis community. View this paper
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Articles (295)

  • Letter
  • Open Access
32 Citations
4,754 Views
14 Pages

An Optical Fiber Sensor Coated with Electrospinning Polyvinyl Alcohol/Carbon Nanotubes Composite Film

  • Jinze Li,
  • Xin Liu,
  • Hao Sun,
  • Liming Wang,
  • Jianqi Zhang,
  • Li Deng and
  • Tianhong Ma

7 December 2020

A fiber-optics tapered sensor that is covered by an electrospinning polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) nanofiber film, is demonstrated to measure humidity and temperature simultaneously. A section multi-mode fiber (MMF) was sandwiched between two leading-in and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,610 Views
15 Pages

Supersensitive Detector of Hydrosphere Pressure Variations

  • Grigory Dolgikh,
  • Sergey Budrin,
  • Stanislav Dolgikh and
  • Aleksandr Plotnikov

7 December 2020

This paper presents an instrument based on an equal-arm Michelson interferometer and a frequency-stabilized helium-neon laser. It is designed to record hydrosphere pressure variations in the frequency range from 0 (conventionally) to 1000 Hz, with ac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,897 Views
19 Pages

Hierarchical Optimization of 3D Point Cloud Registration

  • Huikai Liu,
  • Yue Zhang,
  • Linjian Lei,
  • Hui Xie,
  • Yan Li and
  • Shengli Sun

7 December 2020

Rigid registration of 3D point clouds is the key technology in robotics and computer vision. Most commonly, the iterative closest point (ICP) and its variants are employed for this task. These methods assume that the closest point is the correspondin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
8,951 Views
20 Pages

7 December 2020

Like what happened to the Internet of Things (IoT), smart cities have become abundant in our lives as well. One of the smart city definitions commonly used is that smart cities solve city problems to enhance citizens’ life quality and make citi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,540 Views
17 Pages

7 December 2020

Time-domain reflectometry (TDR) has been extensively used to study soil behaviors. The objective of this study is to propose a method for measuring hydraulic conductivity using TDR. The dielectric constant deduced from TDR is influenced by the electr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,094 Views
20 Pages

Enhancing Classification Performance of fNIRS-BCI by Identifying Cortically Active Channels Using the z-Score Method

  • Hammad Nazeer,
  • Noman Naseer,
  • Aakif Mehboob,
  • Muhammad Jawad Khan,
  • Rayyan Azam Khan,
  • Umar Shahbaz Khan and
  • Yasar Ayaz

7 December 2020

A state-of-the-art brain–computer interface (BCI) system includes brain signal acquisition, noise removal, channel selection, feature extraction, classification, and an application interface. In functional near-infrared spectroscopy-based BCI (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,749 Views
18 Pages

7 December 2020

In recent years, Image-Guide Navigation Systems (IGNS) have become an important tool for various surgical operations. In the preparations for planning a surgical path, verifying the location of a lesion, etc., it is an essential tool; in operations s...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,989 Views
12 Pages

7 December 2020

During the processing and planting of soybeans, it is greatly significant that a reliable, rapid, and accurate technique is used to detect soybean varieties. Traditional chemical analysis methods of soybean variety sampling (e.g., mass spectrometry a...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,292 Views
11 Pages

Optimization of Cost-Effective and Reproducible Flexible Humidity Sensors Based on Metal-Organic Frameworks

  • Victor Toral,
  • Florin C. Loghin,
  • Antonio Rodríguez-Diéguez,
  • Alejandro Lapresta-Fernández,
  • Diego P. Morales,
  • Almudena Rivadeneyra and
  • Alfonso Salinas-Castillo

7 December 2020

In this letter, we present the extension of a previous work on a cost-effective method for fabricating highly sensitive humidity sensors on flexible substrates with a reversible response, allowing precise monitoring of the humidity threshold. In that...

  • Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
8,297 Views
42 Pages

QCM Sensor Arrays, Electroanalytical Techniques and NIR Spectroscopy Coupled to Multivariate Analysis for Quality Assessment of Food Products, Raw Materials, Ingredients and Foodborne Pathogen Detection: Challenges and Breakthroughs

  • David K. Bwambok,
  • Noureen Siraj,
  • Samantha Macchi,
  • Nathaniel E. Larm,
  • Gary A. Baker,
  • Rocío L. Pérez,
  • Caitlan E. Ayala,
  • Charuksha Walgama,
  • David Pollard and
  • Jason D. Rodriguez
  • + 4 authors

7 December 2020

Quality checks, assessments, and the assurance of food products, raw materials, and food ingredients is critically important to ensure the safeguard of foods of high quality for safety and public health. Nevertheless, quality checks, assessments, and...

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