Remotely piloted vehicle (RPV) imaging devices perform multiple tasks which are vital to a successful RPV mission. The sensor providing general navigation capability also serves as a recovery aid or the means to achie...
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Remotely piloted vehicle (RPV) imaging devices perform multiple tasks which are vital to a successful RPV mission. The sensor providing general navigation capability also serves as a recovery aid or the means to achieve automatic retrieval. Design approaches are discussed which led to the development of a modular family of day/night imaging systems. Flight test data are used to support the selection of an appropriate system for a particular scenario. Areas covered include special signal processing techniques, sensor trade-offs, and solidstate imaging systems.
The review covers main applications of conducting polymers in chemical sensors and biosensors. The first part is focused on intrinsic and induced receptor properties of conducting polymers, such as pH sensitivity, sen...
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The review covers main applications of conducting polymers in chemical sensors and biosensors. The first part is focused on intrinsic and induced receptor properties of conducting polymers, such as pH sensitivity, sensitivity to inorganic ions and organic molecules as well as sensitivity to gases. Induced receptor properties can be also formed by molecularly imprinted polymerization or by immobilization of biological receptors. Immobilization strategies are reviewed in the second part. The third part is focused on applications of conducting polymers as transducers and includes usual optical (fluorescence, SPR, etc.) and electrical (conductometric, amperometric, potentiometric, etc.) transducing techniques as well as organic chemosensitive semiconductor devices. An assembly of stable sensing structures requires strong binding of conducting polymers to solid supports. These aspects are discussed in the next part. Finally, an application of combinatorial synthesis and high-throughput analysis to the development and optimization of sensing materials is described. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
We describe a new type of a sensitive semiconductor photodetector that could be used in medical imaging applications. The photodetector, based on the mechanism of discrete amplification, has performance parameters com...
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(纸本)9780819470973
We describe a new type of a sensitive semiconductor photodetector that could be used in medical imaging applications. The photodetector, based on the mechanism of discrete amplification, has performance parameters comparable to, and for some applications exceeding, those of the vacuum photomultiplier tubes. High amplification gain achieved at very low levels of excess noise is accompanied by the fast speed and high dynamic range of the photodetector. Comparison of the technology with classic arrays of Geiger-mode APD arrays is also performed.
Two advances in diode-array pump technology have made possible the expansion of the performance of diode-pumped solid-state lasers. These developments include the commercialization of: (1) a reliable high-duty-cycle d...
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Two advances in diode-array pump technology have made possible the expansion of the performance of diode-pumped solid-state lasers. These developments include the commercialization of: (1) a reliable high-duty-cycle diode arrays with average power of 10 W/cm from a mounted bar, and 80 W/cm2 from a 2D array and;(2) diode arrays with billion-shot lifetimes operating at ambient temperatures in excess of 70 °C. The frequency-doubled Nd:YAG rod laser developed for a military sensor system and the high-average power, high-brightness diode-pumped industrial laser are also discussed.
This work demonstrates a method to develop high temperature metal-semiconductor-metal photodetectors using low-temperature, ion beam assisted deposition of nanocrystalline silicon carbide (SiC) and hydrothermal synthe...
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This paper reports on a band-aid type sensor that can simultaneously measure multiple physiological parameters with only one sensing element. The proposed sensor consists of a MEMS-based piezoresistive cantilever, a t...
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(纸本)9780738125626
This paper reports on a band-aid type sensor that can simultaneously measure multiple physiological parameters with only one sensing element. The proposed sensor consists of a MEMS-based piezoresistive cantilever, a thin silicone tube whose inner pressure is measured by the cantilever. The whole sensor device is attached to a surgical tape, which allows the band-aid like attachment of the sensor to human skin to measure the vibration caused by the physiological parameters such as pulse wave, heart sound and respiration. Using the fabricated sensor device, we demonstrate two applications: the simultaneous measurements of pulse wave and respiration when attaching the sensor to the user's nose and the simultaneous measurements of heart sound and respiration using when attaching the sensor to the user's chest. We show that these the physiological parameters can be independently extracted from the cantilever output using low pass and high pass filters. The proposed sensor is useful for continuous health monitoring, which has become a great demand in the with/post COVID-19 era.
This paper presents a novel method to achieve large area contact integration for copper(II) oxide (CuO) nanowire array-based hydrogen gas sensors, which provides a simple solution to the ongoing challenge of harvestin...
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An accurate personal inertial navigation system under GPS-denied environment is highly critical for demanding applications such as firefighting, rescue missions, and military operations. Location-aware computation for...
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(纸本)9781509049400
An accurate personal inertial navigation system under GPS-denied environment is highly critical for demanding applications such as firefighting, rescue missions, and military operations. Location-aware computation for large-area mixed reality also calls for accurate personal position tracking. Position calculation can be accomplished by using an inertial measurement unit (IMU) composed of a 3-axis accelerometer, 3-axis gyroscope, and 3-axis magnetometer. A gyroscope and magnetometer together can provide the orientation information, while the displacement can be obtained by integrating the acceleration data over time. A MEMS-based IMU is attractive for its small size, low power and low cost. However, such devices exhibit a limited accuracy, large offset, and time drift, which can result in an excessive position error over time. To achieve high-performance navigation, it is critical to accurately reset the IMU time-integration during each step when the foot contacts the ground. Furthermore, correcting the IMU inherent inaccuracy, bias, and time drift becomes important for improving system performance.
In this paper we have introduced several types of ferroelectric and antiferroelectric thin (thickness m) and thick (thickness >1 mum) films developed in our group for sensor, actuator and transducer applications in...
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In this paper we have introduced several types of ferroelectric and antiferroelectric thin (thickness <1 m) and thick (thickness >1 mum) films developed in our group for sensor, actuator and transducer applications in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). Ferroelectric lead zirconate titanate (PZT) films of up to 12 mum in thickness have been prepared on Pt-buffered silicon substrates, which allows for the conventional, through-thickness polarization, and of up to 5 mum in thickness on insulating layer (ZrO2) passivated silicon substrates, which allows for the novel, in-plane polarization. The in-plane poled films make it possible to develop d(33)-mode rather than d(31)-mode bending devices, which immediately leads to two-times improvement in device performance because d(33) approximate to 2 d(31). It also can greatly increase the voltage sensitivity of bending devices because the film thickness and electrode spacing are separated as independent variables, and thus, smaller film capacitance can be obtained by using wider electrode spacing even for fixed film thickness. In addition to PZT ferroelectric films, we have also developed antiferroelectric films as an alternative for high-strain microactuators. The strain level of the antiferroelectric films can reach more than 0.4%, and both digital and analog actuation can be realized by modifying the compositions of the films. As an example for MEMS applications, micromachined, unimorph-type two-dimensional transducer arrays have been fabricated based on both the through-thickness and in-plane polarized PZT films, which can be used for miniaturized, high-resolution acoustic imaging such as hand-held diver's sonar system, medical ultrasound imaging, and non-destructive testing. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
arrays of circuit elements are fabricated on the surface of a silicon wafer and are interconnected by gold metallization. A layer of polyimide is then formed on the wafer surface by spinning on a layer of polyamic aci...
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arrays of circuit elements are fabricated on the surface of a silicon wafer and are interconnected by gold metallization. A layer of polyimide is then formed on the wafer surface by spinning on a layer of polyamic acid and curing it at high temperature. Masking and etching from the backside of the wafer leaves separate silicon islands supported on a flexible polymide substrate, interconnected by the flexible gold metalization. Size is smaller than tape-bonded hybrids. applications include linear thermometer arrays and two-dimensional arrays of sensors for robotic and biomedical uses.
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