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Control over surface temperature is of paramount importance in optoelectronics, photocatalysis and biosensing applications, among others. Thermoplasmonic approaches have demonstrated unrivalled performance for controlling surface…

We present an experimental setup and methodology designed to facilitate high-precision thermal measurements required for infrared medical tomography. The approach which is best suited for the study of specialized hardware phantoms comprises…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Anna Frixou , Efstathios Stiliaris , Costas N. Papanicolas

Resistance thermometry provides a time-tested method for taking temperature measurements. However, fundamental limits to resistance-based approaches has produced considerable interest in developing photonic temperature sensors to leverage…

Optics · Physics 2015-08-06 Haitan Xu , Mohammad Hafezi , J. Fan , J. M. Taylor , G. F. Strouse , Zeeshan Ahmed

This paper presents a numerical simulation and experimental results of a one-dimensional thermal inclinometer with the cavity filled of gas and liquid. The sensor principle consists of one heating resistor placed between two detectors. When…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-12-18 N. Crespy , J. Courteaud , P. Combette , P. Temple Boyer , A. Giani , A. Foucaran

Thermal equilibrium states are exponentially hard to distinguish at very low temperatures, making equilibrium quantum thermometry in this regime a formidable task. We present a thermometric scheme that circumvents this limitation, by using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-07 Ivan Henao , Karen V. Hovhannisyan , Raam Uzdin

The integration of photonic sensors into microfluidic devices provides opportunities for dynamic measurement of chemical and physical properties of fluids in very small volumes. We previously reported on the use of commercially available…

Optics · Physics 2016-03-28 Gregory A. Cooksey , Zeeshan Ahmed

We have developed a new micro-fabricated platform for the measurement of the specific heat of low heat capacity mg-sized metallic samples, such as superconductors, down to temperatures of as low as $10\,\mathrm{mK}$. It addresses…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-03-24 Andreas Reifenberger , Andreas Reiser , Sebastian Kempf , Andreas Fleischmann , Christian Enss

We present ultra-thin silicon membrane thermocouple bolometers suitable for fast and sensitive detection of low levels of thermal power and infrared radiation at room temperature. The devices are based on 40 nm-thick strain tuned single…

Non-contact temperature sensors are widely used, often utilizing infrared light for temperature measurement. However, specific applications demand non-contact detection, particularly within closed containers containing fluids or gases,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Eddy Divin Kenvo Songwa , Dima Cheskis

We introduce a technique based on infrared thermal emission, termed depth thermography, that can remotely measure the temperature distribution beneath the surface of certain objects. Depth thermography utilizes the thermal-emission spectrum…

Optics · Physics 2019-08-22 Yuzhe Xiao , Chenghao Wan , Alireza Shahsafi , Jad Salman , Mikhail A. Kats

Phase-sensitive optical coherence tomography (PhS-OCT) enables precise, contactless measurements of temperature-dependent changes in transparent solids. In this work, we used a common-path spectral-domain OCT system to measure optical path…

We have designed and implemented a straightforward method to deterministically measure the temperature of the selected segment of a cold atom ensemble, and we have also developed an upgrade in the form of nondestructive thermometry. The…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Xin Wang , Yuan Sun , Hua-Dong Cheng , Jin-Yin Wan , Yan-Ling Meng , Ling Xiao , Liang Liu

We report the design and performance of a cryogen-free, pulse-tube refrigerator (PTR)-based scanning probe microscopy (SPM) system capable of operating at the base temperature of near 5K. We achieve this by combining a home-made interface…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-29 Jun Kasai , Tomoki Koyama , Munenori Yokota , Katsuya Iwaya

We demonstrate millikelvin thermometry of laser cooled trapped ions with high-resolution imaging. This equilibrium approach is independent of the cooling dynamics and has lower systematic error than Doppler thermometry, with \pm5 mK…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-10 B. G. Norton , E. W. Streed , M. J. Petrasiunas , A. Jechow , D. Kielpinski

Thermal transport in nanostructures plays a critical role in modern technologies. As devices shrink, techniques that can measure thermal properties at nanometer and nanosecond scales are increasingly needed to capture transient,…

Quantifying the temperature of microdevices is critical for probing nanoscale energy transport.Such quantification is often accomplished by integrating resistance thermometers into microdevices. However, such thermometers frequently become…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Amin Reihani , Shen Yan , Yuxuan Luan , Rohith Mittapally , Edgar Meyhofer , Pramod Reddy

Thermal sensing with fine spatial resolution is important to the study of many scientific areas. While modern microscopy systems allow easy optical detection at high spatial resolution, their intrinsic functions are mainly focused on…

Optics · Physics 2018-07-04 Han Zhao , Zhaowei Chen , Ruogang Zhao , Liang Feng

Ultrathin microscale resistive thermometers are of key value to many applications. Here we have fabricated a laser machined 50 ${\mu}$m wide and 50 nm thick serpentine Pt thin film sensor capable of sensing temperatures up to 650 ${^\circ}$…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-11-12 Letian Wang , Zeqing Jin , Dongwoo Paeng , Yoonsoo Rho , Jiangyou Long , Matthew Eliceiri , YS. Kim , Costas P. Grigoropoulos

Lab-on-a-chip (LOC) forms the basis of the new-generation portable analytical systems. LOC allows the manipulation of ultralow flows of liquid reagents and multistep reactions on a microfluidic chip, which requires a robust and precise…

We present a simulation guided design for a multilayer surface plasmon resonance (SPR) based biosensor capable of detecting refractive index changes in a target induced by analytes. Surface plasmons are excited using a hybrid Kretschmann…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-23 R. Runthala , V. K. Venkatesh , D. Gupta , P. Arora