Publications related to 20 Years of IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL

Eco-Conscious Approach to Wireless Gas Monitoring With a Hybrid Printed Passive Sensor Tag

Sandro Carrara, Johanna Zikulnig, Jürgen Kosel

Addressing the environmental impact of electronic waste in biomedical sensing, an eco-conscious approach to the realization of a Chitosan-based Acetone sensor tag for wireless gas monitoring is presented. The fabrication involves inkjet printing of silver ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Spatial-Temporal Graph Attention Fuser for Calibration in IoT Air Pollution Monitoring Systems

Olga Fink, Mengjie Zhao, Keivan Faghih Niresi

The use of Internet of Things (IoT) sensors for air pollution monitoring has significantly increased, resulting in the deployment of low-cost sensors. Despite this advancement, accurately calibrating these sensors in uncontrolled environmental conditions r ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2023

Roadmap on Optical Sensors

Luc Thévenaz, Lei Zhang

Optical sensors and sensing technologies are playing a more and more important role in our modern world. From micro-probes to large devices used in such diverse areas like medical diagnosis, defense, monitoring of industrial and environmental conditions, o ...

2023

Thermally Drawn Elastomer Nanocomposites for Soft Mechanical Sensors

Inès Richard, Fabien Sorin, Yunpeng Qu, Stella Andréa Françoise Laperrousaz, Chaoqun Dong, Andreas Leber

Stretchable and conductive nanocomposites are emerging as important constituents of soft mechanical sensors for health monitoring, human-machine interactions, and soft robotics. However, tuning the materials' properties and sensor structures to the targete ...

WILEY2023

Humidity-insensitive optical fibers for distributed sensing applications

Luc Thévenaz, Tiago Filipe Pimentel Das Neves

Humidity is a critical environmental factor in various applications, and its temperature dependence must be considered when developing thermo-hygrometer fiber sensors. The optical fibers that constitute the sensor must have a temperature reference, which s ...

2023

Enhanced Signal-Associated Noise in a φ-OTDR System

Luc Thévenaz, Malak Mohamed Hossameldeen Omar Mohamed Galal, Suneetha Sebastian

Owing to their high sensitivity with respect to external measurands, Rayleigh-based distributed optical fiber sensors (DOFS) find their way into applications in many industrial and academic sectors. To further transcend the limit of these sensors in terms ...

2022

Highly Sensitive Detection of the Antidepressant Fluoxetine With an Extended Gate Field Effect Transistor

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Shokoofeh Sheibani

Fluoxetine (FL) is one of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, which is used as an anti-depressant, as well as anti-panic drug. In this work, a sensor for label-free recognition of trace amounts of FL is introduced, which is based on an extended ga ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Inkjet-printed polymer composites for the detection of volatile organic compounds

Mohammadmahdi Kiaee

Sensors capable of detecting and classifying volatile organic compounds (VOC) have been gaining more attention by the advent of internet-of-things (IoT) enabled devices and integration of various sensing elements into hand-held and portable devices. The re ...

EPFL2021

System-level Design of Adaptive Wearable Sensors for Health and Wellness Monitoring

Elisabetta De Giovanni

In recent years, population aging and the consequent higher incidence of noncommunicable diseases, have increased the need for long-term health monitoring. Moreover, as healthcare cost is projected to grow substantially by 2030 in OECD countries, the deman ...

EPFL2021

Purely Organic Optical Sensor for Broad-Range and Reversible Oxygen Sensing

Efe Armagan

Oxygen (O2) molecule is of paramount importance in nature, and it takes part in several biological and chemical activities such as energy generation, cellular respiration, and food deterioration, to name a few. Detection of O2 concentration is of extreme i ...

EPFL2021

Distributed photothermal spectroscopy in microstructured optical fibers: towards high-resolution mapping of gas presence over long distances

Luc Thévenaz, Kenny Hey Tow

Chemical sensing using optical fibers is often challenging, as it is generally difficult to achieve strong interaction between the guided light and the analyte at the wavelength of interest for performing the detection. Despite this difficulty, many scheme ...

Optical Society of America2017

Distributed Time Series Analytics

Tian Guo

In recent years time series data has become ubiquitous thanks to affordable sensors and advances in embedded technology. Large amount of time-series data are continuously produced in a wide spectrum of applications, such as sensor networks, medical monitor ...

EPFL2017

Excitation of resonant plasmonic cavities by integrated waveguides for sensing applications

Gaël David Osowiecki

Optical sensors represent a large growing market which is nowadays focusing onto advancement in mobile technology. Innovations in the field of optical sensors are mostly driven by the technological advancements in the domain of micro & nanofabrication. One ...

EPFL2016

Going beyond 1000000 resolved points in a Brillouin distributed fiber sensor: theoretical analysis and experimental demonstration

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Andrey Denisov

Distributed fiber sensing possesses the unique ability to measure the distributed profile of an environmental quantity along many tens of kilometers with spatial resolutions in the meter or even centimeter scale. This feature enables distributed sensors to ...

Chinese Acad Sciences, Changchun Inst Optics Fine Mechanics And Physics2016

Intensifying the response of distributed optical fibre sensors using 2D and 3D image restoration

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez

Distributed optical fibre sensors possess the unique capability of measuring the spatial and temporal map of environmental quantities that can be of great interest for several field applications. Although existing methods for performance enhancement have e ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Extending the Real Remoteness of Long-Range Brillouin Optical Time-Domain Fiber Analyzers

Luc Thévenaz, Sang Hoon Chin, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez

The real remoteness of a distributed optical fiber sensor based on Brillouin optical time-domain analysis is considerably extended in this paper using seeded second-order Raman amplification and optical pulse coding. The presented analysis and the experime ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

SPADnet: a fully digital, scalable and networked photonic component for time-of-flight PET applications

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, John Richard Walker, Gabor Nemeth

The SPADnet FP7 European project is aimed at a new generation of fully digital, scalable and networked photonic components to enable large area image sensors, with primary target gamma-ray and coincidence detection in (Time-of-Flight) Positron Emission Tom ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2014

Efficient Indexing and Query Processing of Model-View Sensor Data in the Cloud

Karl Aberer, Tian Guo

As the number of sensors that pervade our lives increases (e.g., environmental sensors, phone sensors, etc.), the eﬃcient management of massive amount of sensor data is becoming increasingly important. The inﬁnite nature of sensor data poses a serious chal ...

2014

Monitoring strain gradients in adhesive composite joints by embedded fiber Bragg grating sensors

Hans Georg Limberger, John Botsis, Véronique Michaud, Roohollah Sarfaraz Khabbaz, Georgios Violakis, Luis Pablo Canal Casado

The adhesive bonding of composite materials can be applied to assemble light-weight structures for aeronautical applications. However, the application of adhesive bonds in primary load-bearing structures is limited by the lack of adequate techniques to mon ...

Elsevier2014

Next generation of optical fibre sensors: new concepts and perspectives

Luc Thévenaz

Fibre sensing has reached an interesting turning point today: a clearer assessment about promises that were really held and those that failed to convince can be envisioned. A choice of key fibre sensing techniques will be reviewed and a critical discussion ...

SPIE2014