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Advanced optical sensors

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ACCLIP - Asian Summer Monsoon Chemical and Climate Impact Project

ACCLIP Project aims to investigate the impacts of Asian gas and aerosol emissions on globa…
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Diamond based particle detectors

Diamond is an ideal material for particle detectors, mainly because of its radiation hardn…

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Electrical and optical chemical gas sensing

Nanowires and thin films of nanostructured metal-oxide semiconductors oxides target the de…
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Electron microscopy and EBL

The investigation of the morphology, structure as well as elemental composition and crysta…

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Evanescent-wave sensing and spectroscopy

Optical cavity-based detection methods have been widely used for sensing and spectroscopy …
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IMPRESS 2 - Innovative Metrology for Pollution Regulation of Emissions from Stacks and area Sources

Project IMPRESS – Innovative Metrology for Pollution Regulation of Emissions from Stacks a…

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INtegration of cost-effective Solutions for Imaging, Detection, and Digitisation of hidden Elements in paintings (INSIDDE)

Because cultural heritage is one of the most valuable assets of our continent, European in…
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MITOS - Magnetic Induction Tomography with Optical Sensors

Magnetic Induction Tomography (MIT) is a long standing imaging technique [1] sensitive to …

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Photoacoustic sensors for trace gas detection

Trace gas detectors based on optical systems represent the best option for measuring tiny …
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Physical sensing with optical-fiber ring, grating-based and coupled resonators

Fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) possess an undisputed potential in the field of thermal and me…

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Saturated-absorption cavity ring-down (SCAR) spectroscopy for optical radiocarbon detection

Radiocarbon (14C), the “natural clock” for dating organic matter, is a very elusive atom. …
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Surface-plasmon resonance sensing with cavity-enhanced methods

Optical surface-plasmon resonance (SPR) sensors are nowadays a well-established tool for c…

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Ultraintense Laser amplification and diagnostic techniques (ILIL-PW)

Laser-matter interaction at extreme intensities (>10E20 W/cm2) requires high power, ultras…
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Whispering gallery mode optical resonators

Over the last few decades, optical resonators allowed enormous progresses in a number of d…