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Sensors, Volume 20, Issue 1

January-1 2020 - 325 articles

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Cover Story: Plasmonic biosensing has had a huge impact on both research and industry, particularly thanks to the biosensors based on surface plasmon resonance (SPR), which are currently produced by different commercial companies. Here, we propose a plasmonic biosensor based on a vertically coupled plasmonic racetrack resonator and a thin-film plasmonic waveguide. The main advantages over SPR biosensors include a small footprint size and possibility of on-chip integration. In addition, it can be fabricated using planar microelectronic technology. The operation of the proposed device is based on resonance shift in the racetrack resonator due to changes of the refractive index of the media above it. In the manuscript, we analyzed the sensitivity and detection limit of this biosensor depending on its essential characteristics.View this paper.

Articles (325)

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
9,672 Views
21 Pages

6 January 2020

The maintenance of railway systems is critical for their safe operation. However some landscape geographical features force the track line to have sharp curves with small radii. Sharp curves are known to be the main source of wheel flange wear. The r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,158 Views
19 Pages

A Cycle Slip Detection Framework for Reliable Single Frequency RTK Positioning

  • Salma Zainab Farooq,
  • Dongkai Yang and
  • Echoda Ngbede Joshua Ada

6 January 2020

Single frequency real-time kinematic (RTK) positioning is expected to be the leading implementation platform for a variety of emerging GNSS mass-market applications. During RTK positioning, the most common source of measurement errors is carrier-phas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,395 Views
14 Pages

6 January 2020

Within the heritage field, the application of strain gauges on wood surfaces is a little-explored but inexpensive and effective method to analyse the environmental appropriateness of rooms for the wooden heritage collections they contain. This contri...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
8,588 Views
16 Pages

A High-Performance 2.5 μm Charge Domain Global Shutter Pixel and Near Infrared Enhancement with Light Pipe Technology

  • Ikuo Mizuno,
  • Masafumi Tsutsui,
  • Toshifumi Yokoyama,
  • Tatsuya Hirata,
  • Yoshiaki Nishi,
  • Dmitry Veinger,
  • Adi Birman and
  • Assaf Lahav

6 January 2020

We developed a new 2.5 μm global shutter (GS) pixel using a 65 nm process with an advanced light pipe (LP) structure. This is the world’s smallest charge domain GS pixel reported so far. This new developed pixel platform is a key enabler for ultra-hi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,740 Views
14 Pages

6 January 2020

Deep learning has proven itself to be able to reduce the scanning time of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and to improve the image reconstruction quality since it was introduced into Compressed Sensing MRI (CS-MRI). However, the requirement of using...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
4,624 Views
11 Pages

6 January 2020

This article discusses the correlation method for time delay estimation, its disadvantages, and drawbacks. It is shown that the correlation method for material velocity measurement based on images of instantaneous changes of the concentration materia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,299 Views
15 Pages

A Wrapper Feature Selection Algorithm: An Emotional Assessment Using Physiological Recordings from Wearable Sensors

  • Inma Mohino-Herranz,
  • Roberto Gil-Pita,
  • Joaquín García-Gómez,
  • Manuel Rosa-Zurera and
  • Fernando Seoane

6 January 2020

Assessing emotional state is an emerging application field boosting research activities on the topic of analysis of non-invasive biosignals to find effective markers to accurately determine the emotional state in real-time. Nowadays using wearable se...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,131 Views
15 Pages

6 January 2020

In this work, ammonium pyrrolidine dithiocarbamate (APDC) was used as a surface etchant to modify CdTe/CdS core-shell quantum dots (QDs). The APDC etchant combines with the cadmium ions (Cd2+) on the surface of the QDs, resulting in the formation of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
5,419 Views
19 Pages

6 January 2020

In the underlay cognitive radio networks, the main challenge in detecting the idle radio resources is to estimate the power spectrum maps (PSMs), where the radio propagation characteristics are hard to obtain. For this reason, we propose a novel PSMs...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
7,478 Views
21 Pages

Easing Power Consumption of Wearable Activity Monitoring with Change Point Detection

  • Cristian Culman,
  • Samaneh Aminikhanghahi and
  • Diane J. Cook

6 January 2020

Continuous monitoring of complex activities is valuable for understanding human behavior and providing activity-aware services. At the same time, recognizing these activities requires both movement and location information that can quickly drain batt...

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