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Sensors, Volume 20, Issue 5

March-1 2020 - 303 articles

Cover Story: Raman spectroscopy is a powerful optical detection technique widely used in biological research, pharmaceutics, chemical sciences, and many other fields for material characterization. We introduce a freeform-segmented reflector design that works together with a microfluidic lab-on-chip for conventional and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) analysis to reduce the size and cost compared to traditional bulky Raman equipment. The microfluidic chip consists of three layers: a polymer-based bottom and top sealing layer, and a channel layer for the fluidic sample under test. The maskless reactive ion etched nano-pillars with Au coating are used as the SERS substrate that is integrated inside the microfluidic chamber by UV curing adhesive. By tuning the height of the segmented reflector, we placed the focal point right on the surface of the SERS substrate to obtain the greatest enhancement. View this paper
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Articles (303)

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,570 Views
19 Pages

10 March 2020

Due to the process defects and imperfection of drivers, permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSM) are problematic to control. There is still a lack of effective high-performance control methods for inertial stabilized platforms based on PMSM current...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,259 Views
18 Pages

Multiuser Chirp Spread Spectrum Transmission in an Underwater Acoustic Channel Applied to an AUV Fleet

  • Christophe Bernard,
  • Pierre-Jean Bouvet,
  • Antony Pottier and
  • Philippe Forjonel

10 March 2020

The objective of this paper is to provide a multiuser transmission technique for underwater acoustic communication in the framework of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) fleet. By using a variant of a Hyperbolically Frequency-Modulated (HFM) sign...

  • Review
  • Open Access
107 Citations
14,654 Views
27 Pages

A Review of Thin-Film Magnetoelastic Materials for Magnetoelectric Applications

  • Xianfeng Liang,
  • Cunzheng Dong,
  • Huaihao Chen,
  • Jiawei Wang,
  • Yuyi Wei,
  • Mohsen Zaeimbashi,
  • Yifan He,
  • Alexei Matyushov,
  • Changxing Sun and
  • Nianxiang Sun

10 March 2020

Since the revival of multiferroic laminates with giant magnetoelectric (ME) coefficients, a variety of multifunctional ME devices, such as sensor, inductor, filter, antenna etc. have been developed. Magnetoelastic materials, which couple the magnetiz...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,092 Views
16 Pages

10 March 2020

A novel multi-classification method, which integrates the elastic net and probabilistic support vector machine, was proposed to solve this problem in cancer detection with gene expression profile data of platelets, whose problems mainly are a kind of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,567 Views
18 Pages

Pedestrian Navigation Method Based on Machine Learning and Gait Feature Assistance

  • Zijun Zhou,
  • Shuqin Yang,
  • Zhisen Ni,
  • Weixing Qian,
  • Cuihong Gu and
  • Zekun Cao

10 March 2020

In recent years, as the mechanical structure of humanoid robots increasingly resembles the human form, research on pedestrian navigation technology has become of great significance for the development of humanoid robot navigation systems. To solve th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,669 Views
15 Pages

A Camera Sensors-Based System to Study Drug Effects on In Vitro Motility: The Case of PC-3 Prostate Cancer Cells

  • Maria Colomba Comes,
  • Arianna Mencattini,
  • Davide Di Giuseppe,
  • Joanna Filippi,
  • Michele D’Orazio,
  • Paola Casti,
  • Francesca Corsi,
  • Lina Ghibelli,
  • Corrado Di Natale and
  • Eugenio Martinelli

10 March 2020

Cell motility is the brilliant result of cell status and its interaction with close environments. Its detection is now possible, thanks to the synergy of high-resolution camera sensors, time-lapse microscopy devices, and dedicated software tools for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,160 Views
28 Pages

10 March 2020

Although unsupervised representation learning (RL) can tackle the performance deterioration caused by limited labeled data in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) object classification, the neglected discriminative detailed information and the ignored dist...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,050 Views
17 Pages

10 March 2020

The ambiguity resolution (AR) and validation of the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) have been challenging tasks for some decades. Considering the reliability problem of extra-wide-lane (EWL) ambiguity in the triple-carrier ambiguity resolut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,767 Views
20 Pages

Design of a Fully Integrated Inductive Coupling System: A Discrete Approach Towards Sensing Ventricular Pressure

  • Natiely Hernández Sebastián,
  • Noé Villa Villaseñor,
  • Francisco-Javier Renero-Carrillo,
  • Daniela Díaz Alonso and
  • Wilfrido Calleja Arriaga

10 March 2020

In this paper, an alternative strategy for the design of a bidirectional inductive power transfer (IPT) module, intended for the continuous monitoring of cardiac pressure, is presented. This new integrated implantable medical device (IMD) was designe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,254 Views
19 Pages

Optimization of a Single Tube Practical Acoustic Thermometer

  • Rok Tavčar,
  • Janko Drnovšek,
  • Jovan Bojkovski and
  • Samo Beguš

10 March 2020

When designing a single tube practical acoustic thermometer (PAT), certain considerations should be addressed for optimal performance. This paper is concerned with the main issues involved in building a reliable PAT. It has to be emphasised that a PA...

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