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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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On-line Writing of Fiber Bragg Grating Array on a Two-mode Optical Fiber for Sensing Applications
摘要: On-line fabricated fiber Bragg grating (FBG) array and its sensing potentials have attracted plenty of attention in recent years. In this paper, FBG arrays are written on-line on a two-mode fiber, and this two-mode fiber Bragg grating (TM-FBG) is further experimentally investigated for temperature and curvature sensing. The responses of this sensor were characterized by 11.2 pm/°C for temperature and ?0.21 dB/m?1 for curvature, respectively. Based on the measurements, a dual-parameter fiber sensing system was developed, which can realize the quasi-distributed, simultaneous detection of temperature and curvature, making it suitable for structural health monitoring or perimeter security.
关键词: on-line grating writing,fiber Bragg grating,two-mode fiber,curvature sensing,temperature sensing
更新于2025-11-28 14:23:57
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A curvature sensor based on single mode-no-core-twisted single mode fiber structure
摘要: A high sensitivity curvature sensor based on single mode-no-core-twisted single mode (SNTS) fiber structure is proposed. The configuration is simply formed by twisting a section of single mode fiber (SMF) in the single mode-no-core-single mode structure. Due to the twist is applied, the cladding mode excited in the SMF can be recoupled into the core. The core modes and cladding modes excited in the same fiber form a Mach-Zehnder interference (MZI) which is sensitive to the curvature change. A high sensitivity of 16.28 nm/m?1 with a good linearity has been achieved in the range of 0.96–1.92 m?1, and the repeatability of the curvature sensor is 3.6 × 10?3 nm/m?1. The temperature sensitivity is 0.03 nm/°C within the temperature range from 30 to 100 °C.
关键词: Single mode-no-core-twisted,Curvature sensor,Fiber,Mach-Zehnder interference
更新于2025-11-28 14:23:57
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Opposite Self-Folding Behavior of Polymeric Photoresponsive Actuators Enabled by a Molecular Approach
摘要: The ability to obtain 3D polymeric objects by a 2D-to-3D shape-shifting method is very appealing for polymer integration with different materials, from metals in electronic devices to cells in biological studies. Such functional reshaping can be achieved through self-folding driven by a strain pattern designed into the molecular network. Among polymeric materials, liquid crystalline networks (LCNs) present an anisotropic molecular structure that can be exploited to tailor internal strain, resulting in a natural non-planar geometry when prepared in the form of flat films. In this article, we analyze the influence of different molecular parameters of the monomers on the spontaneous shape of the polymeric films and their deformation under different stimuli, such as heating or light irradiation. Modifying the alkilic chains of the crosslinkers is a simple and highly effective way to increase the temperature sensitivity of the final actuator, while modifying ester orientation on the aromatic core interestingly acts on the bending direction. Combining such effects, we have demonstrated that LCN stripes made of different monomeric mixtures originate complex non-symmetric deformation under light activation, thus opening up new applications in photonic and robotics.
关键词: photonic actuators,liquid crystalline networks,curvature design,photoresponsive polymers,shape-changing materials
更新于2025-11-21 11:24:58
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Laser‐Assisted Strain Engineering of Thin Elastomer Films to Form Variable Wavy Substrates for Cell Culture
摘要: Endothelial and epithelial cells usually grow on a curved environment, at the surface of organs, which many techniques have tried to reproduce. Here a simple method is proposed to control curvature of the substrate. Prestrained thin elastomer films are treated by infrared laser irradiation in order to rigidify the surface of the film. Wrinkled morphologies are produced upon stress relaxation for irradiation doses above a critical value. Wrinkle wavelength and depth are controlled by the prestrain, the laser power, and the speed at which the laser scans the film surface. Stretching of elastomer substrates with a “sand clock”-width profile enables the generation of a stress gradient, which results in patterns of wrinkles with a depth gradient. Thus, different combinations of topography changes on the same substrate can be generated. The wavelength and the depth of the wrinkles, which have the characteristic values within a range of several tens of μm, can be dynamically regulated by the substrate reversible stretching. It is shown that these anisotropic features are efficient substrates to control polarization of cell shapes and orientation of their migration. With this approach a flexible tool is provided for a wide range of applications in cell biophysics studies.
关键词: cell curvotaxis,laser treatment,curvature,dynamic substrates,strain engineering
更新于2025-11-21 11:08:12
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Real time Demosaicking algorithm using derivative difference and curvature for digital camera
摘要: Lots of mobile devices adopt single image sensors to acquire scene images. In our algorithm, we propose an adaptive and effective demosaicking algorithm using derivative difference and curvature which can estimate the directional component to reconstruct the to-be-interpolated color pixels. We introduce an function to evaluate the image complexity, which is composed by the derivative difference and isophote smoothing which is calculated as the sign of image curvature.
关键词: Curvature,Digital camera,Derivative difference
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Dislocation bending and stress evolution in Mg-doped GaN films on Si substrates
摘要: P-type doping using Mg is essential for realizing a variety of electronic and optoelectronic III-nitride devices involving hetero-epitaxial thin films that also contain a significant number of dislocations. We report on the effect of Mg incorporation on dislocation and stress evolution during the growth of GaN thin films by using in situ curvature measurements and ex situ transmission electron microscopy. A complete picture involving the interplay between three effects—dopant size effect, dislocation bending, and polarity inversion—is presented. Mg aids dislocation bending, which in turn generates tensile stresses in Mg-doped GaN films. As a result, the compressive stress expected due to the dopant size difference effect can only be discerned clearly in films with dislocation densities below 5 × 10^9 cm^?2. Polarity inversion at doping exceeding 10^19 cm^?3 is associated with a sharp drop in screw dislocation density. A kinetic stress evolution model has been developed to capture dislocation bending and size difference effects, and a match between calculated bending angle from the model and that measured from TEM images is obtained.
关键词: Mg doping,stress evolution,dislocation bending,in situ curvature measurements,transmission electron microscopy,polarity inversion,GaN
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Diagrammatic approach to nonlinear optical response with application to Weyl semimetals
摘要: Nonlinear optical responses are a crucial probe of physical systems including periodic solids. In the absence of electron-electron interactions, they are calculable with standard perturbation theory starting from the band structure of Bloch electrons, but the resulting formulas are often large and unwieldy, involving many energy denominators from intermediate states. This work gives a Feynman diagram approach to calculating nonlinear responses. This diagrammatic method is a systematic way to perform perturbation theory, which often offers shorter derivations and also provides a natural interpretation of nonlinear responses in terms of physical processes. Applying this method to second-order responses concisely reproduces formulas for the second-order-harmonic shift current. We then apply this method to third-order responses and derive formulas for third-order-harmonic generation and self-focusing of light, which can be directly applied to tight-binding models. Third-order responses in the semiclassical regime include a Berry curvature quadrupole term, whose importance is discussed including symmetry considerations and when the Berry curvature quadrupole becomes the leading contribution. The method is applied to compute third-order optical responses for a model Weyl semimetal, where we find a new topological contribution that diverges in a clean material, as well as resonances with a peculiar linear character.
关键词: Weyl semimetals,perturbation theory,Berry curvature,nonlinear optical responses,Feynman diagrams
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Highly compact vector bending sensor with microfiber-assisted Mach-Zehnder interferometer
摘要: A low-cost and highly compact fiber-optic vector bending sensor component is proposed and experimentally demonstrated for vector bending sensing. A segment of microfiber tapered from standard single-mode fibers (SMFs) is spliced between two SMFs with pre-designed lateral offset to construct a sandwich type Mach-Zehnder interferometer of 243.32 μm in length. Sensing performances of the proposed vector bending sensor is theoretically analyzed in detail. As the applied curvature increases from 0.3873 m-1 to 3.0 m-1, the transmission spectra of the proposed sensor show distinct linear wavelength shift sensitivities for different directions, the maximum of which is up to 3.419 nm/m-1. Besides, temperature test indicates that the proposed sensor possesses a low temperature cross sensitivity of 33.71 pm/°C, which ensures its applicability for practical uses in temperature-fluctuated environment. Hence, our proposed vector bending sensor possesses such desirable merits as high sensitivity, compact size, low thermal crosstalk, low cost and orientation-dependent spectral response.
关键词: Vector bending sensor,Mach-Zehnder interferometer,Lateral core-offset,Curvature measurement
更新于2025-09-23 15:22:29
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Research on Image Smoothing Diffusion Model with Gradient and Curvature Features
摘要: In this paper, two image smoothing models are proposed for the visual inspection of high-density flexible IC package substrates with strict requirements on line-width and line distance which are applied to the de-noising of high-density flexible IC package substrate images. First of all, the two models proposed in this paper combines the level set curvature feature of the image with gradient threshold, using more abundant second-order differential information as the detection factor to remove noise in image. Secondly, theoretical analysis shows that the de-noised image obtained by the two models proposed can retain more detailed texture information and edge information of the original image. What is more, the experimental analysis shows that the proposed models have the highest structural similarity and peak signal-to-noise ratio, and have a relatively high edge-preserving index and the lowest mean squared error compared with other models. In particular, the de-noised image through Model 1 has the highest structural similarity and peak signal to noise ratio, as well as the lowest mean squared error. The de-noised image through Model 2 has a relatively high edge retention index. The methods proposed in this paper can effectively remove the noise of the image of the high-density flexible IC package substrate, and can retain the original details and edges information of the image.
关键词: Image de-noising,Flexible integrated circuit substrate image,Gradient,Curvature
更新于2025-09-23 15:22:29