scholarly journals Low-Cost, High-Performance Fiber Optic Fabry–Perot Sensor for Ultrasonic Wave Detection

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haoyong Li ◽  
Delin Li ◽  
Chaoyu Xiong ◽  
Wenrong Si ◽  
Chenzhao Fu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Microelectromechanical Systems ◽  
Fiber Optic ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Experimental Tests ◽  
Silicon On Insulator ◽  
Processing Technology ◽  
Fabry Perot ◽  
High Performance Fiber ◽  
The Cost

This study describes a novel fiber optic extrinsic Fabry–Perot interferometric (EFPI) ultrasonic sensor comprising a low-cost and high-performance silicon diaphragm. A vibrating diaphragm, 5 μm thick, was fabricated by using the Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) processing technology on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafer. The Fabry–Perot (FP) cavity length was solely determined during the manufacturing process of the diaphragm by defining a specific stepped hole on the handling layer of the SOI wafer, which made the assembly of the sensor easier. In addition, the use of cheap and commercially available components and MEMS processing technology in the development of the sensing system, limited the cost of the sensor. The experimental tests showed that the minimum detectable ultrasonic pressure was 1.5 mPa/sqrt(Hz) –0.625 mPa/sqrt(Hz) between 20 kHz and 40 kHz. As a result, this sensor has the potential to successfully detect weak ultrasonic signals.

scholarly journals Low-cost high-performance fiber-optic pH sensor based on thin-core fiber modal interferometer

2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (25) ◽  
pp. 22296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bobo Gu ◽  
Ming-Jie Yin ◽  
A. Ping Zhang ◽  
Jin-Wen Qian ◽  
Sailing He
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Fiber Optic ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Ph Sensor ◽  
High Performance Fiber ◽  
Core Fiber

RF-MEMS Components and Networks for High-Performance Reconfigurable Telecommunication and Wireless Systems

2012 ◽  
Vol 81 ◽  
pp. 65-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacopo Iannacci ◽  
Giuseppe Resta ◽  
Paola Farinelli ◽  
Roberto Sorrentino
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Microelectromechanical Systems ◽  
Rf Mems ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Impedance Matching ◽  
Phase Shifters ◽  
Rf Systems ◽  
Mems Technology ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Rf Performance

MEMS (MicroElectroMechanical-Systems) technology applied to the field of Radio Frequency systems (i.e. RF-MEMS) has emerged in the last 10-15 years as a valuable and viable solution to manufacture low-cost and very high-performance passive components, like variable capacitors, inductors and micro-relays, as well as complex networks, like tunable filters, reconfigurable impedance matching networks and phase shifters, and so on. The availability of such components and their integration within RF systems (e.g. radio transceivers, radars, satellites, etc.) enables boosting the characteristics and performance of telecommunication systems, addressing for instance a significant increase of their reconfigurability. The benefits resulting from the employment of RF-MEMS technology are paramount, being some of them the reduction of hardware redundancy and power consumption, along with the operability of the same RF system according to multiple standards. After framing more in detail the whole context of RF MEMS technology, this paper will provide a brief introduction on a typical RF-MEMS technology platform. Subsequently, some relevant examples of lumped RF MEMS passive elements and complex reconfigurable networks will be reported along with their measured RF performance and characteristics.

Constructing a Bioinformatics Platform with Web and Mobile Services Based on NVIDIA Jetson TK1

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 57-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun-Yuan Lin ◽  
Jin Ye ◽  
Che-Lun Hung ◽  
Chung-Hung Wang ◽  
Min Su ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Consumption ◽  
High Performance Computing ◽  
Graphics Processing Units ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Research Direction ◽  
Mobile Services ◽  
Performance Ratio ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Performance Computing

Current high-end graphics processing units (abbreviate to GPUs), such as NVIDIA Tesla, Fermi, Kepler series cards which contain up to thousand cores per-chip, are widely used in the high performance computing fields. These GPU cards (called desktop GPUs) should be installed in personal computers/servers with desktop CPUs; moreover, the cost and power consumption of constructing a high performance computing platform with these desktop CPUs and GPUs are high. NVIDIA releases Tegra K1, called Jetson TK1, which contains 4 ARM Cortex-A15 CPUs and 192 CUDA cores (Kepler GPU) and is an embedded board with low cost, low power consumption and high applicability advantages for embedded applications. NVIDIA Jetson TK1 becomes a new research direction. Hence, in this paper, a bioinformatics platform was constructed based on NVIDIA Jetson TK1. ClustalWtk and MCCtk tools for sequence alignment and compound comparison were designed on this platform, respectively. Moreover, the web and mobile services for these two tools with user friendly interfaces also were provided. The experimental results showed that the cost-performance ratio by NVIDIA Jetson TK1 is higher than that by Intel XEON E5-2650 CPU and NVIDIA Tesla K20m GPU card.

High-performance fiber optic systems for damage detection and structural health monitoring

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark E. Seaver ◽  
Stephen T. Trickey ◽  
Jonathan M. Nichols ◽  
Linda Moniz ◽  
Lou Pecora ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Structural Health Monitoring ◽  
Damage Detection ◽  
Health Monitoring ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Fiber Optic ◽  
Structural Health ◽  
High Performance Fiber ◽  
Optic Systems
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