English
Related papers

Related papers: Fluctuation-Enhanced Sensing of Bacterium Odors

200 papers

Microorganisms employ sophisticated mechanisms for intercellular communication and environmental sensing, with quorum sensing serving as a fundamental regulatory process. Dysregulation of quorum sensing has been implicated in various…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-09-30 O. Tansel Baydas , Efe Yatgin , Ozgur B. Akan

Transition-edge sensors (TESs) have the potential to perform electron spectroscopic measurements with far greater measurement rates and efficiencies than can be achieved using existing electron spectrometers. Existing spectrometers filter…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-03-05 K. M. Patel , S. Withington , A. G . Shard , D. J. Goldie , C. N. Thomas

We demonstrated selective gas sensing with MoS2 thin-film transistors using the change in the channel conductance, characteristic transient time and low-frequency current fluctuations as the sensing parameters. The back-gated MoS2 thin-film…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 R. Samnakay , C. Jiang , S. L. Rumyantsev , M. S. Shur , A. A. Balandin

We describe a set up for measurements of low frequency (1 mHz < f < 20 Hz) conductance fluctuations in a solid conductor. The set-up uses a five probe a.c. measurement technique and extensive digital signal processing to reach a noise floor…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Arindam Ghosh , Swastik Kar , Aveek Bid , A. K. Raychaudhuri

We present a model of a novel measurement scheme to detect small amounts of a gas species via the ground-state fluctuations of the electromagnetic field (dispersion forces) depending on the entire spectral properties of all objects. Here,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-13 Eivind Kristen Osestad , Pekka Parviainen , Johannes Fiedler

Microscopic Imaging Ellipsometry is an optical technique that uses an objective and sensing procedure to measure the ellipsometric parameters {\Psi} and {\Delta} in the form of microscopic maps. This technique is well known for being…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 Mai Ibrahim Khaleel , Yu-Da Chen , Ching-Hang Chien , Yia-Chung Chang

In this work, we propose a strategy to sense quantitatively and specifically cations, out of a single organic electrochemical transistor (OECT) device exposed to an electrolyte. From the systematic study of six different chloride salts over…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-03-29 Sebastien Pecqueur , David Guerin , Dominique Vuillaume , Fabien Alibart

We demonstrate that measurements of atom-number fluctuations in a trapped dipolar condensate can reveal the presence of the elusive roton excitation. The key signature is a super-Poissonian peak in the fluctuations as the size of the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-06-28 R. N. Bisset , P. B. Blakie

We report on fluctuations in the electron system, Cooper pairs and quasiparticles, of a superconducting aluminium film. The superconductor is exposed to pair-breaking photons (1.54 THz), which are coupled through an antenna. The change in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-02-06 P. J. de Visser , J. J. A. Baselmans , J. Bueno , N. Llombart , T. M. Klapwijk

Bacterial migration through confined spaces is critical for several phenomena like: biofilm formation, bacterial transport in soils, and bacterial therapy against cancer . In the present work, \textit{E. coli} (strain K12-MG1655 WT)…

Thermodynamic parameters such as temperature and pressure can be defined from the statistical behavior of a system. Therefore, thermal fluctuation is an inseparable characteristic of these parameters which eventually finds its way into…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-02-28 Alek Bedroya , Mahmud Bahmanabadi

Typical experimental measurement is set up as a study of the system's response to a stationary external excitation. This approach considers any random fluctuation of the signal as spurious contribution which is to be eliminated via…

The ultimate sensitivities achieved in force or mass sensing are limited by the employed nanomechanical probes thermal noise. Its proper understanding is critical for ultimate operation and any deviation from the underlying fluctuation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-13 Laure Mercier de Lépinay , Benjamin Pigeau , Benjamin Besga , Olivier Arcizet

Even at zero temperature, there exist phase fluctuations associated with an array of Bose-Einstein condensates confined in a one-dimensional optical lattice. We demonstrate a method to measure the phase fluctuations based on the Fourier…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-11 Bing Wang , Qiang Zhu , Hailong Zhou , Dezhi Xiong , Hongwei Xiong , Baolong Lu

A strong low-temperature enhancement of the tunneling conductance between graphene bilayers has been reported recently, and interpreted as a signature of equilibrium electron-hole pairing, first predicted in bilayers more than forty years…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Dmitry K. Efimkin , G. William Burg , Emanuel Tutuc , Allan H. MacDonald

We show that trial-to-trial variability in sensory detection of a weak visual stimulus is dramatically diminished when rather than presenting a fixed stimulus contrast, fluctuations in a subject's judgment are matched by fluctuations in…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2011-03-29 Shimon Marom , Avner Wallach

Olfaction, the sense of smell, has received scant attention from a signal processing perspective in comparison to audition and vision. In this paper, we develop a signal processing paradigm for olfactory signals based on new scientific…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-16 Kush R. Varshney , Lav R. Varshney

An approach is described in this work for detecting discomfort moments during electrical water heater daily usage. The approach employs chromatic analyzing sensors signals of electrical water heater systems for producing distinguishable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-11 Ziyad Almajali

Electrical activity of fungus \emph{Pleurotus ostreatus} is characterised by slow (hours) irregular waves of baseline potential drift and fast (minutes) action potential likes spikes of the electrical potential. An exposure of the mycelium…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-06-17 Andrew Adamatzky , Antoni Gandia

Unraveling bacterial strategies for spatial exploration is crucial for understanding the complexity in the organization of life. Bacterial motility determines the spatio-temporal structure of microbial communities, controls infection…