A New Route to High Sensitivity Pressure Sensors
A New Route to High Sensitivity Pressure Sensors
3 Pages27 COMSOL MULTIPHYSICS OCTOBER 2017 A NEW ROUTE TO HIGH SENSITIVITY PRESSURE SENSORS Research at Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) and at Instituto de Estudos Avançados (IEAv) reveals new designs for optical fiber pressure sensors. By LEXI CARVER OPTICAL FIBERS. TO THE AVERAGE PERSON, the phrase might conjure up an image of glowing hairs twisted artistically into a beautiful shape or fountaining out of a lamp holder. But these light-transmitting silica strands are much more than decoration. Since their development in the 1950s, optical fibers have been used for power transmission, communication, imaging, and sensing. Specifically, they are often used in situations where other sensing techniques can fail. Since optical fibers are dielectric and versatile, they can be us
