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Advanced Optical Sensors
ACCLIP - Asian Summer Monsoon Chemical and Climate Impact Project
ACCLIP Project aims to investigate the impacts of Asian gas and aerosol emissions on globa…
Diamond based particle detectors
Diamond is an ideal material for particle detectors, mainly because of its radiation hardn…
Electrical and optical chemical gas sensing
Nanowires and thin films of nanostructured metal-oxide semiconductors oxides target the de…
Electron microscopy and EBL
The investigation of the morphology, structure as well as elemental composition and crysta…
Evanescent-wave sensing and spectroscopy
Optical cavity-based detection methods have been widely used for sensing and spectroscopy …
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…
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…
MITOS - Magnetic Induction Tomography with Optical Sensors
Magnetic Induction Tomography (MIT) is a long standing imaging technique [1] sensitive to …
Photoacoustic sensors for trace gas detection
Trace gas detectors based on optical systems represent the best option for measuring tiny …
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…
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. …
Surface-plasmon resonance sensing with cavity-enhanced methods
Optical surface-plasmon resonance (SPR) sensors are nowadays a well-established tool for c…
Ultraintense Laser amplification and diagnostic techniques (ILIL-PW)
Laser-matter interaction at extreme intensities (>10E20 W/cm2) requires high power, ultras…
Whispering gallery mode optical resonators
Over the last few decades, optical resonators allowed enormous progresses in a number of d…