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Optical Fiber Sensor Performance Evaluation in Soft Polyimide Film with Different Thickness Ratios
摘要： To meet the application requirements of curvature measurement for soft biomedical robotics and flexible morphing wings of aircraft, the optical fiber Bragg grating (FBG) shape sensor for soft robots and flexible morphing wing was implemented. This optical FBG is embedded in polyimide film and then fixed in the body of a soft robot and morphing wing. However, a lack of analysis on the embedded depth of FBG sensors in polyimide film and its sensitivity greatly limits their application potential. Herein, the relationship between the embedded depth of the FBG sensor in polyimide film and its sensitivity and stability are investigated. The sensing principle and structural design of the FBG sensor embedded in polyimide film are introduced; the bending curvatures of the FBG sensor and its wavelength shift in polyimide film are studied; and the relationship between the sensitivity, stability, and embedded depth of these sensors are verified experimentally. The results showed that wavelength shift and curvature have a linear relationship. With the sensor’s curvature ranging from 0 m?1 to 30 m?1, their maximum sensitivity is 50.65 pm/m?1, and their minimum sensitivity is 1.96 pm/m?1. The designed FBG sensor embedded in polyimide films shows good consistency in repeated experiments for soft actuator and morphing wing measurement; the FBG sensing method therefore has potential for real applications in shape monitoring in the fields of soft robotics and the flexible morphing wings of aircraft.
关键词： polyimide film,sensitivity,micro curvature sensor,soft robotics sensor,embedded depth
更新于2025-11-28 14:24:03
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The effect of the TiO2 film on the performance of the optical fiber SPR sensor
摘要： We studied the effect of the Titanium Oxide (TiO2) film on the performance of the optical fiber SPR with two kinds of probes. The light guiding properties and sensing performance of the D-type optical fiber SPR sensor coated with TiO2 was studied numerically by finite element method (FEM) and the sensing performance of the multimode-single mode-multimode (MSM) hetero-core optical fiber SPR sensor coated with TiO2 was investigated experimentally. The simulation and experimental results for two kinds of probes consistently show that the absence of TiO2 film layer on the gold film can enhance the refractive index sensitivity and tune the resonance curve of the sensor from visible light to near-infrared.
关键词： Hetero-core structure,D-typed structure,Surface plasmon resonance,Finite element method,TiO2 film
更新于2025-11-28 14:23:57
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Application of MoWS2-rGO/PVA thin film as all-fiber pulse and amplitude modulators in the O-band region
摘要： In this work, a MoWS2-rGO/PVA thin film is fabricated and its applications as in amplitude modulation are demonstrated. Embedded in a praseodymium fluoride fiber laser cavity, the MoWS2-rGO/PVA thin film is able to induce pulsing in the laser output, which operates in the O-band region. As an optical amplitude modulator, the MoWS2-rGO/PVA thin film is capable of achieving a modulation efficiency of 0.17 dB/mW in the O-band region over a pump power range of 46.0 mW to 78.5 mW. C-band and L-band operation is also demonstrated, with modulation efficiencies of 0.30 dB/mW and 0.15 dB/mW, respectively over pump power ranges of 3.51 mW–52.17 mW and 24.4 mW–61.3 mW. This work can be improved by further engineering the composition ratio of the alloy material to enhance the modulation efficiency for both pulsed and amplitude modulations, giving rise to various applications, in particular in bio-medicine and manufacturing.
关键词： Amplitude modulator,MoWS2-rGO/PVA thin film,Pulse modulator,O-band
更新于2025-11-28 14:23:57
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Fluorescence spectra of colloidal self-assembled CdSe nano-wire on substrate of porous Al <sub/>2</sub> O <sub/>3</sub> /Au nanoparticles
摘要： We present a self-assembly method to prepare array nano-wires of colloidal CdSe quantum dots on a substrate of porous Al2O3 film modified by gold nanoparticles. The photoluminescence (PL) spectra of nanowires are in situ measured by using a scanning near-field optical microscopy (SNOM) probe tip with 100-nm aperture on the scanning near-field optical microscope. The results show that the binding sites from the edge of porous Al2O3 nanopores are combined with the carboxyl of CdSe quantum dots’ surface to form an array of CdSe nanowires in the process of losing background solvent because of the gold nanoparticles filling the nano-holes of porous Al2O3 film. Compared with the area of non-self-assembled nano-wire, the fluorescence on the Al2O3/Au/CdSe interface is significantly enhanced in the self-assembly nano-wire regions due to the electron transfer conductor effect of the gold nanoparticles’ surface. In addition, its full width at half maximum (FWHM) is also obviously widened. The method of enhancing fluorescence and energy transfer can widely be applied to photodetector, photocatalysis, optical display, optical sensing, and biomedical imaging, and so on.
关键词： porous Al2O3 film,colloidal self-assembled method,CdSe nano-wire,enhanced photoluminescence
更新于2025-11-25 10:30:42
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Determination of nanoscale titanium oxide thin film phase composition using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy valence band analysis
摘要： The phase compositions of nanoscale thick titania films on the titanium were determined using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy valence band analysis for the first time, by deconvoluting the two-peak structure of valence band into five peaks and analysing the relative peak area. The titania films of thickness varying from about 2 nm to 8 μm were obtained by the air oxidation of commercially pure titanium at different temperatures. The titania films formed on titanium for oxidizing temperatures up to 200 °C were amorphous, with thickness < 10 nm. The sub-stoichiometric oxides present at the TiO2-Ti interface were composed of Ti3+, Ti2+ and Ti1+ states when the film of thickness was < 10 nm. At 300 °C, when the titania film thickness was < 20 nm, it was fully converted to rutile phase and remained stable up to 1000 °C. A broadening of full-width half-maxima of the core level peaks for the titania layers was attributed to the presence of surface hydroxyl group and stress gradient within the oxide layer. The absence of metastable anatase phase in the titania layers at lower temperatures was attributed to the presence of high stresses within the oxide layers owing to their nanoscale thickness.
关键词： X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy,Thin film,Valence band,Surface phase composition,Titania,Titanium
更新于2025-11-21 11:24:58
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The Role of Secondary Electron Emission in the Charging of Thin-Film Phase Plates
摘要： In the past few years, physical phase plates (PP) have become a viable tool to enhance the contrast of weak-phase objects in transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Thin-film PPs, such as the Zernike and Hilbert PP, are based on the mean inner potential of microstructured thin films [1,2]. Typically, a thin amorphous carbon (aC)-film is applied, whose thickness is adjusted to induce a well-defined phase shift between unscattered and scattered electrons. However, the illumination with high-energy electrons initiates an irreversible degeneration of the aC-film, which causes electrostatic charging and affects the phase-shifting properties. Taking even advantage of charging, hole-free PPs were recently developed [3,4]. Electrostatic charging plays a central role in the application of thin-film PPs. However, the mechanisms of charging are not well-understood. This work shows that charging is dominated by secondary electron emission. For this purpose, Hilbert PPs were fabricated from different materials to study their charging behavior under electron beam illumination. Besides aC-films, thin films of the metallic glass alloy Pd77.5Cu6.0Si16.5 (PCS) were used for PP fabrication. The PCS-alloy is characterized by an amorphous structure and a high electrical conductivity, which is three orders of magnitude higher than that of aC [5,6]. Moreover, the PCS-alloy exhibits a strong resistance towards oxidation, which suggests less charging of PCS-films.
关键词： transmission electron microscopy,thin-film,secondary electron emission,charging,phase plates
更新于2025-11-21 11:20:48
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Influence of RbF post deposition treatment on heterojunction and grain boundaries in high efficient (21.1%) Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells
摘要： Post deposition treatments (PDT) by alkali fluorides applied to chalcopyrite-based absorbers have produced record efficiencies in thin-film solar devices in the past few years and recently the efficiency of 22.6 % was achieved with Cu(In,Ga)Se2 (CIGS) using rubidium fluoride (RbF) PDT. However, the effects of RbF-PDT towards changes in its interfacial and grain boundary (GB) properties are still not fully understood. In this work, cells with efficiency higher than 21% are investigated by combination of atom probe tomography (APT) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to show how changes in GB and interface chemistry may facilitate high efficiencies. APT studies, carried out at the interface between CIGS absorber and solution-grown CdS buffer layer, show In enrichment and Cu depletion along with traces of Rb. Our APT studies reveal higher amounts of Rb (1.5 at. %) and lower amounts of Na and K (<0.5 at. %) at GBs as compared with previous studies (on non-PDT samples) thus indicating substitution of Na and K by Rb. However, concentration of all alkali elements inside the grain bulk is below detection limit of APT. The concentration of Rb at the GBs in CIGS is measured depth-dependent using both APT and TEM, which consistently shows the increase in Rb towards the Mo back contact. In addition, a pronounced Cu depletion is observed at the GBs which might enhance hole-barrier properties of the GBs, thus improving charge carrier collection and hence the overall efficiency of the device. Thus, understanding effects of RbF-PDT at the atomic scale provides new insights concerning the further improvement of CIGS absorber and interfaces.
关键词： Cu(In,Ga)Se2,Thin-film solar cell,heterojunction,atom probe tomography,post deposition treatments,transmission electron microscopy
更新于2025-11-21 11:20:48
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Analysis of Cu doping concentration on PbS thin films for the fabrication of solar cell using feasible nebulizer spray pyrolysis
摘要： This report portrays the analysis of Cu doping concentration (%) on PbS thin films prepared by feasible nebulizer spray technique. The doping percentage of Cu was increased from 0% to 8% in steps of 2%. X-ray diffraction study of the films evinces the nature of the films as polycrystalline with simple cubic crystal structure. The calculated crystallite size was varied from 55 to 41 nm on increasing the Cu doping concentration. SEM/AFM studies proclaim that the cubic shaped grains have covered the entire film surface. The shape of grains was amended with respect to the increase in Cu doping concentration. An elevation in band gap from 1.61 eV to 2.10 eV was spotted for the raise in Cu doping concentration from 0% to 6%. The near band edge emission peak at 575 nm was sensed from PL spectra in which the intensity was enhanced. Hall Effect measurement declared the p-type conductivity nature for the prepared PbS films. Resistivity and carrier-concentration values are 0.73×103 Ωcm and 6.04×1013 cm-3 respectively for 6% Cu doped PbS thin films. Efficiency for the solar cell FTO/n-CdS/p-Cu:PbS structure constructed with 6% Cu doped PbS film is about 0.68%.
关键词： X-ray diffraction,PL spectra,Hall Effect measurement,AFM/SEM,Cu doped PbS film
更新于2025-11-21 11:18:25
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Vancomycin functionalized WO3 thin film-based impedance sensor for efficient capture and highly selective detection of Gram-positive bacteria
摘要： In this study, we report a facile, reusable, and highly sensitive label-free impedance sensor for discriminating Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. The impedance sensor was fabricated using gold interdigitated electrodes onto a tungsten oxide thin film. X-Ray diffraction confirmed the formation of polycrystalline tungsten oxide. Field emission scanning electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy revealed that tungsten oxide has a porous structure. Tungsten oxide was functionalized with vancomycin, a glycopeptide antibiotic known to have a specific interaction with the peptidoglycan layer of Gram-positive bacteria. fourier transform infrared microscopy and scanning electron microscopy were employed to test the morphological coating of vancomycin on interdigitated electrodes/ tungsten oxide sensor. The functionalized tungsten oxide sensor was highly efficient in the capture of Gram-positive bacteria. The impedance measurement was also sensitive to differentiate between viable and non-viable Gram-positive bacteria. Limit of detection 102 colony forming unit/ml, linear dynamic range 102 - 107 colony forming unit/ml under physiological conditions and reusable nature of this vancomycin coated impedance sensor provide a label-free strategy for quick, sensitive and highly selective detection of Gram-positive bacteria.
关键词： Vancomycin,WO3 thin film,Gram-positive bacteria,Impedance sensor
更新于2025-11-21 11:18:25
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Plasmon-enhanced upconversion luminescence in pyrochlore phase Yb<sub>x</sub>Er<sub>2-x</sub>Ti<sub>2</sub>O<sub>7</sub> thin film
摘要： Pyrochlore phase YbxEr2-xTi2O7 (YETO) thin films have been prepared by employing a facile sol-gel method combining with spin-coating technique and post-annealing treatment at 700 ℃. High concentration of Yb3+ ions can promote the transformation from Yb3+/Er3+ co-doped anatase phase TiO2 to pyrochlore phase YETO at 700 ℃ temperature. We find that the YETO thin film with 30 mol% Yb3+ ions exhibits the brightest upconversion (UC) emission. Moreover, introduction of Au nanorods (Au NRs) in the YETO thin film can further enhance the UC fluorescence. By adjusting the density of Au NRs, the UC emission intensity is increased by about 2.8-fold due to the excitation field enhancement caused by the localized surface plasmon resonance effect.
关键词： YbxEr2-xTi2O7,Thin film,Plasmon,Upconversion
更新于2025-11-21 11:01:37