SENSORDEVICES 2012 , The Third International Conference on Sensor Device Technologies and Applications

Type: conference

Notes: IARIA Conference.

Editors:
Sergey Yurish, IFSA - Barcelona, Spain
Irinela Chilibon, National Institute of Research and Development for Optoelectronics - Bucharest, Romania
Vítor Carvalho, Minho University, Portugal
Stephane Gervais-Ducouret, Freescale, France

ISSN: 2308-3514

ISBN: 978-1-61208-208-0

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from August 19, 2012 to August 24, 2012

Articles: there are 28 articles

Ability of Acoustic Sensor Devices for Medical Analysis
Thomas Rösel, Achim Voigt, and Friederike J. Gruhl
keywords: SAW biosensors; array; point-of-care; cancer diagnosis

Neural Cell Chip to Assess Toxicity Based on Spectroelectrochemical Technique
Jeong-Woo Choi and Tae-Hyung Kim
keywords: Toxicity assessment; Spectroelectrochemical method; Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy; Cell chip

Medical Wireless Vibration Measurement System for Hip Prosthesis Loosening Detection
Sebastian Sauer, Uwe Marschner, Hagen Graetz, and Wolf-Joachim Fischer
keywords: hip prosthesis loosening detection; vibration analysis; wireless medical system.

Sensing of the Functional State of Fertility of Cows
Michal Borecki, Michael L. Korwin-Pawlowski, Marcin Kozicki, Jan Szmidt, Andrzej Jakubowski, Szmidt Maciej, and Kaja Urbanska
keywords: cow estrous detection; cow vaginitis detection; leukocytes detection; fiber optic sensors, fiber optic capillary sensors

Bend Sensors Modeling for Fast Signal Recovering in Human Motion Analysis
Giancarlo Orengo, Antonino Lagati, and Giovanni Saggio
keywords: bend sensor; sensor modeling; motion analysis; posture recognition

SiC Multilayer Photonic Structures
Manuela Vieira, Manuel Vieira, Paula Louro, Alessandro Fantoni, and Vitor Silva
keywords: Optical filters, Photonics, multilayer devices, integrated filters

A Novel Flexure Parallel Micromanipulator Based on Multi-Level Displacement Amplifier
Dan Zhang, Zhen Gao, Matteo Malosio, and Gianmarc Coppola
keywords: Flexure parallel micromanipulator; multi-level displacement amplifier; finite-element analysis; symmetrical topology structure

Improvement of the Diffusive Component of Dark Current in Silicon Photomultiplier Pixels
Roberto Pagano, Sebania Libertino, Domenico Corso, Salvatore Lombardo, Giuseppina Valvo, Delfo Sanfilippo, Giovanni Condorelli, Massimo Mazzillo, Angelo Piana, Beatrice Carbone, and Giorgio Fallica
keywords: Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPM); Dark Counts

Impedance Measurements of Ethanol Sensing with Vanadium oxide / Porous Si / Si Structure
Katia Chebout, Aicha Iratni Aicha Iratni, Ahmed Bouremana, Kawthar M’hammedi, Hamid Menari, Aissa Keffous, and Noureddine Gabouze
keywords: vanadium oxide; porous silicon; gas sensor.

Wireless and Passive Sensors for High Temperature Measurements
Bruno Francois, Denny Richter, Holger Fritze, Zacharis J. Davis, Christophe Droit, Blandine Guichardaz, Valérie Petrini, Gilles Martin, Jean-Michel Friedt, and Sylvain Ballandras
keywords: Surface acoustic waves; high temperature; sensor; langasite; quartz; aging; radiofrequency; reader; passive.

Modeling and Comparing the Linear Performance of non Uniform Geometry Bend Sensors
Giancarlo Orengo, Antonino Lagati, and Giovanni Saggio
keywords: bend sensor; gesture recognition

Heat Balanced Bolometer with Sigma-Delta Interface
Matthieu Denoual, Mathieu Pouliquen, Gilles Allègre, Damien Brouard, Arthur Veith, Olivier de Sagazan, and Patrick Attia
keywords: bolometer; sigma-delta modulator; electrical substitution; frequency sensor

Optical Characterisation of La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 Thin Film Based Uncooled Bolometers
Ammar Aryan, Jean-Marc Routoure, Bruno Guillet, Pierre Langlois, Cédric Fur, Julien Gasnier, Carolina Adamo, Darrell G. Schlom, and Laurence Méchin
keywords: Bolometer; manganite; thermal detector.

Identification of Yarn Periodical Errors Using Signal Processing Techniques Based on Capacitive and Optical Sensors Measurements
Vítor Carvalho, Filomena Soares, Michael Belsley, and Rosa Vasconcelos
keywords: capacitive sensors; optical sensors; periodical errors; yarn mass; yarn hairiness; yarn diameter; fast walsh-hadamard; fast impulse frequency determination; fft.

TCR, Responsivity, and Noise Properties of Carbon Nanotube-polymer Bolometric IR Detectors
William Riedel, Gustavo Fernandes, Jin Ho Kim, and Jimmy Xu
keywords: Bolometer; Infrared Detection; Carbon Nanotube; polymer.

Application of a Conductive Polymer Electronic-nose Device to Identify Aged Woody Samples
Alphus D. Wilson
keywords: electronic aroma detection; e-nose technologies; volatile organic compounds; wood identification

A Methanol Sensor Incorporating Nanostructured ZnO and Integrated Micro-heater on Thermally Isolated Planar MEMS Platform
Sudhir Chandra, Hardik Pandya, and Anoop Vyas
keywords: - Nanostructured ZnO; Thermal evaporation; MEMS Platforms; Methanol sensor

Development of Au Nano-particles Cladding-doped Optical Fiber for Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensor Applications
Seongmin Ju, Pramod R. Watekar, Seongmook Jeong, Youngwoong Kim, Poram Jeon, Seongjae Boo, and Won-Taek Han
keywords: nano-particles; cladding-doped optical fiber; absorption; surface plasmon resonance.

A Smartphone System: Providing a Shoe-Embedded Interface
Kaname Takaochi, Kazuhiro Watanabe, and Kazumasa Takami
keywords: shoe-embedded interface; heterocore optical fiber sensor; handsfree interface

A Low-cost and Portable System for Real-time Impedimetric Measurements and Impedance Spectroscopy of Sensors
Michele Rossi, Marco Bennati, Federico Thei, and Marco Tartagni
keywords: Biosensors; Sensor interfaces; Impedance spectroscopy; Real time; Amperometry measurements.

Flexible Lightweight Films-based Physical Sensors with Wireless Data
Vladimir Laukhin, Elena Laukhina, Bahareh Moradi, Victor Lebedev, Raphael Pfattner, Concepcio Rovira, and Jaume Veciana
keywords: flexible strain sensor; temperature sensing material; organic molecular conductors; electrical detection principle; wireless data transmission

Performance Testing of a Low Power Consumption Wireless Sensor Communication System Integrated with an Energy Harvesting Power Source
Vlad Marsic, Alessandro Giuliano, Michele Pozzi, Meiling Zhu, and Stewart Williams
keywords: vibration scavenging; energy harvesting; low power consumption; wireless sensor communication system;

On the Need for Low Phase Noise Oscillators for Wireless Passive Sensor Probing
Jean-Michel Friedt, Nicolas Chretien, Bruno Francois, Gilles Martin, Sylvain Ballandras, and Pratyush Varshney
keywords: surface acoustic wave; sensor; passive; wireless; phase noise; RADAR.

Efficient Suboptimal Detectors for Maritime Surface Surveillance High-Resolution Radar
Blas Pablo Dorta-Naranjo, Jaime Calvo-Gallego, Cristina Carmona-Duarte, and Félix Pérez-Martínez
keywords: radar; detectors; statistical descriptors.

Acoustic Emission Sensor Module
Irinela Chilibon, Marian Mogildea, and George Mogildea
keywords: AE; acoustic emission; non-destructive testing; NDT; C; microcontroller

Investigation on Electrode Size of High Frequency Ultrasonic Transducers
Yangjie Wei, Thomas Herzog, and Henning Heuer
keywords: Electrode size; electric impedance matching; ultrasonic transducer

Surface Acoustic Wave Devices Exploiting Palladium Layer Properties for Selective Detection of Hydrogen
Meddy Vanotti, Virginie Blondeau-Patissier, David Rabus, Loic Richard, and Sylvain Ballandras
keywords: gas sensors; hydrogen; Palladium; SAW device; Rayleigh waves.

Protocol Awareness: A Step Towards Smarter Sensors
Hoel Iris and Francois Pacull
keywords: Coordination Middleware; Smart Sensor; Transaction; Power Consumption.