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Vibrating nano- and micromechanical resonators have been the subject of research aiming at ultrasensitive mass sensors for mass spectrometry, chemical analysis and biomedical diagnosis. Unfortunately, their merits diminish dramatically in…

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This work focuses on the application related to the detection of low moisture and environmental pollutants. A novel gas sensor with inkjet printed Double Walled Carbon Nano Tubes (DWNTs) on a Love wave sensor platform was developed for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-03-02 H. Hallil , Q. Zhang , E. Flahaut , J Lachaud , P. Coquet , C. Dejous , D. Rebière

The real-time power monitoring of gyrotron is one of the key issues in the operation of electron cyclotron resonance heating system. The detector can be used for real-time power monitoring. We analyzed the principle of diode detection and…

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A highly sensitive photodetection system with a detection limit of 1 photon/s was developed. This system uses a commercially available 200-mm-diameter silicon avalanche photodiode (APD) and an in-house-developed ultralow-noise readout…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Makoto Akiba , Mikio Fujiwara , Masahide Sasaki

We adopt artificial $\Lambda$-type three-level system with superconducting devices for microwave signal detection, where the signal intensity reaches the level of discrete photons instead of continuous waveform. Based on the state…

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This work describes a new microfluidic device developed for rapid screening of solubility diagrams. In several parallel channels, hundreds of nanoliter-volume droplets of a given solution are first stored with a gradual variation in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Laval , N. Lisai , J. -B. Salmon , M. Joanicot

Real-time measurement of relative humidity (RH) is important to many physical, chemical, and biological processes. However, in processes that involve harsh conditions such as high temperatures, strong electromagnetic interferences, and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-07-12 Yundong Ren , Mucheng Li , Yuxiang Liu

To overcome the limitations of conventional liquid density sensors, MEMS-based approaches have been developed. However, the viscosity-density coupling effect often compromises accuracy in high-viscosity liquids. Although various decoupling…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Xuecong Fu , Liang Lou , Hao Ren

We present an optomechanical method for locally measuring the rheological properties of complex fluids in the ultra-high frequency range (UHF). A mechanical disk of microscale volume is used as a small-amplitude oscillating probe that…

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Portable low-cost sensors and sensing systems for the identification and quantitative measurement of bacteria in field water are critical in preventing drinking water from being contaminated by bacteria. In this article, we reported the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2013-12-03 Jing Jiang , Xinhao Wang , Ran Chao , Yukun Ren , Chengpeng Hu , Zhida Xu , Gang Logan Liu

Droplet microlasers, as promising tools for biophotonics and biomedical sciences, have witnessed rapid advances due to their flexible reconfigurability, high sensitivity to stimuli, and label-free biosensing ability. However, designing…

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With ever increasing research on magnetic nano systems it is shown to have great potential in the areas of magnetic storage, biosensing, magnetoresistive insulation etc. In the field of biosensing specifically Spin Valve sensors coupled…

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The p-type surface conductivity of H-terminated diamond (HD) has opened new path ways to develop diamond based electronic devices, photo-catalysts, chemical and bio-sensors. Herein, we report on the room temperature H2S detection behaviour…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-22 N. Mohasin Sulthana , K. Ganesan , P. K. Ajikumar

Oscillators based on levitated particles are promising for the development of ultrasensitive force detectors. The theoretical performance of levitated nanomechanical sensors is usually characterized by the so-called thermal noise limit…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-03-23 Zhenhai Fu , Shaochong Zhu , Ying Dong , Xingfan Chen , Huizhu Hu , Xiaowen Gao

We present an ultrasensitive technique for probing transient optical changes in atomically thin molybdenum disulfide (MoS$_2$) layers integrated onto silicon nitride (Si$_3$N$_4$) ring resonators. The MoS$_2$ is illuminated by a femtosecond…

Because of their low energy content, microwave signals at the single-photon level are extremely challenging to measure. Guided by recent progress in single-photon optomechanics and hybrid optomechanical systems, we propose a multimode…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-18 Keye Zhang , Francesco Bariani , Ying Dong , Weiping Zhang , Pierre Meystre

We present a novel differential refractive index sensor based on arrays of photonic molecules (PM) of dielectric cylinders and two structural defect cavities. The transmission spectrum of the photonic proposed structure as sensor shows a…

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Silicon-based fast time detectors have been widely used in high energy physics, nuclear physics, space exploration and other fields in recent years. However, silicon detectors often require complex low-temperature systems when operating in…