• Luminescence-based optical sensors fabricated by means of the layer-by-layer nano-assembly technique 

      Acha Morrás, Nerea de Upna Orcid; Elosúa Aguado, César Upna Orcid; Matías Maestro, Ignacio Upna Orcid; Arregui San Martín, Francisco Javier Upna Orcid (MDPI, 2017)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      Luminescence-based sensing applications range from agriculture to biology, including medicine and environmental care, which indicates the importance of this technique as a detection tool. Luminescent optical sensors are ...
    • Micro and nanostructured materials for the development of optical fibre sensors 

      Elosúa Aguado, César Upna Orcid; Arregui San Martín, Francisco Javier Upna Orcid; Del Villar, Ignacio Upna Orcid; Ruiz Zamarreño, Carlos Upna Orcid; Corres Sanz, Jesús María Upna Orcid; Bariáin Aisa, Cándido Upna Orcid; Goicoechea Fernández, Javier Upna Orcid; Hernáez Sáenz de Zaitigui, Miguel Upna Orcid; Rivero Fuente, Pedro J. Upna Orcid; Socorro Leránoz, Abián Bentor Upna Orcid; Urrutia Azcona, Aitor Upna Orcid; Sánchez Zábal, Pedro Upna Orcid; Zubiate Orzanco, Pablo Upna Orcid; López Torres, Diego Upna Orcid; Acha Morrás, Nerea de Upna Orcid; Ascorbe Muruzabal, Joaquín Upna Orcid; Ozcariz Celaya, Aritz Upna Orcid; Matías Maestro, Ignacio Upna Orcid (MDPI, 2017)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      The measurement of chemical and biomedical parameters can take advantage of the features exclusively offered by optical fibre: passive nature, electromagnetic immunity and chemical stability are some of the most relevant ...
    • Microstructured optical fiber sensor for soil moisture measurements 

      López Aldaba, Aitor Upna; López Torres, Diego Upna Orcid; Campo-Bescós, Miguel Upna Orcid; López Rodríguez, José Javier Upna Orcid; Yerro Lizarazu, David; Elosúa Aguado, César Upna Orcid; Arregui San Martín, Francisco Javier Upna Orcid; Auguste, Jean-Louis; Jamier, Raphael; Roy, Philippe; López-Amo Sáinz, Manuel Upna Orcid (Optical Society of America, 2018)   Contribución a congreso / Biltzarrerako ekarpena  OpenAccess
      A discrete sensor based on a Sn0₂-FP (Fabry-Pérot) cavity is presented and characterized in real soil conditions. Results are compared, for the first time to our knowledge, with a commercial capacitive sensor and gravimetric ...
    • A nanocomposite sol-gel film based on PbS quantum dots embedded into an amorphous host inorganic matrix 

      Mihail, Elisa; Sava, Bogdan Alexandru; Eftimie, Mihai; Nicoara, Adrian Ionut; Vasiliu, Ileana Cristina; Rusu, Madalin Ion; Bartha, Cristina; Enculescu, Monica; Kuncser, Andrei Cristian; Oane, Mihai; Elosúa Aguado, César Upna Orcid; López Torres, Diego Upna Orcid (MDPI, 2023)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      In this study, a sol-gel film based on lead sulfide (PbS) quantum dots incorporated into a host network was synthesized as a special nanostructured composite material with potential applications in temperature sensor ...
    • Nanostructured PbS-doped inorganic film synthesized by sol-gel route 

      Nicoara, Adrian Ionut; Eftimie, Mihai; Elisa, Mihail; Vasiliu, Ileana Cristina; Bartha, Cristina; Enculescu, Monica; Filipescu, Mihaela; Elosúa Aguado, César Upna Orcid; López Torres, Diego Upna Orcid; Sava, Bogdan Alexandru; Oane, Mihai (MDPI, 2022)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      IV-VI semiconductor quantum dots embedded into an inorganic matrix represent nanostructured composite materials with potential application in temperature sensor systems. This study explores the optical, structural, and ...
    • Optical fiber sensors based on microstructured optical fibers to detect gases and volatile organic compounds: a review 

      López Torres, Diego Upna Orcid; Elosúa Aguado, César Upna Orcid; Arregui San Martín, Francisco Javier Upna Orcid (MDPI, 2020)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      Since the first publications related to microstructured optical fibers (MOFs), the development of optical fiber sensors (OFS) based on them has attracted the interest of many research groups because of the market niches ...
    • Optical sensors based on lossy-mode resonances 

      Matías Maestro, Ignacio Upna Orcid; Ascorbe Muruzabal, Joaquín Upna Orcid; Acha Morrás, Nerea de Upna Orcid; López Torres, Diego Upna Orcid; Zubiate Orzanco, Pablo Upna Orcid; Sánchez Zábal, Pedro Upna Orcid; Urrutia Azcona, Aitor Upna Orcid; Socorro Leránoz, Abián Bentor Upna Orcid; Rivero Fuente, Pedro J. Upna Orcid; Hernáez Sáenz de Zaitigui, Miguel Upna Orcid; Elosúa Aguado, César Upna Orcid; Goicoechea Fernández, Javier Upna Orcid; Bariáin Aisa, Cándido Upna Orcid; Corres Sanz, Jesús María Upna Orcid; Ruiz Zamarreño, Carlos Upna Orcid; Arregui San Martín, Francisco Javier Upna Orcid; Del Villar, Ignacio Upna Orcid (Elsevier Science, 2017)   Artículo / Artikulua
    • An optimized method based on digitalized Lissajous curve to determine lifetime of luminescent materials on optical fiber sensors 

      Ridruejo Muro, Adrián; Acha Morrás, Nerea de Upna Orcid; Elosúa Aguado, César Upna Orcid; Matías Maestro, Ignacio Upna Orcid; Arregui San Martín, Francisco Javier Upna Orcid (Hindawi, 2016)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      A method is proposed to determine lifetime of luminescent emissions based on the phase shift measurement employing the digitalized Lissajous representation: this diagram has been typically used with analogical algorithms, ...
    • Peculiarities of the structural and optical properties of rare-earth-doped phosphate glasses for temperature sensing applications 

      Elisa, M.; Iordache, S.M.; Iordache, A.M.; Vasiliu, Ileana Cristina; Grigorescu, C.E.A.; Sava, Bogdan Alexandru; Boroica, L.; Filip, A.V.; Dinca, M. C.; Bartha, Cristina; Acha Morrás, Nerea de Upna Orcid; Elosúa Aguado, César Upna Orcid (Elsevier, 2021)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      Eu, Er, Yb-Er, and Dy-doped phosphate glasses were prepared by a wet-route processing of chemical precursors followed by melt-quenching and annealing. XRD measurements highlighted the amorphous nature of the investigated ...
    • Photonic crystal fiber interferometer coated with a PAH/PAA nanolayer as humidity sensor 

      López Torres, Diego Upna Orcid; Elosúa Aguado, César Upna Orcid; Villatoro, Joel; Zubia, Joseba; Rothhardt, Manfred; Schuster, Kay; Arregui San Martín, Francisco Javier Upna Orcid (Elsevier, 2017)   Artículo / Artikulua
      In this paper, an optical fiber interferometric humidity sensor is presented. The device consists of 1 cmlong segment of photonic crystal fiber (PCF) spliced to standard single mode fibers (SMFs), forming an interferometer: ...
    • Piezotronic, ZnO overlaid Bragg grating organic vapor sensors 

      López Torres, Diego Upna Orcid; Elosúa Aguado, César Upna Orcid; Pappas, Georgios A.; Konstantaki, María; Klini, Argyro; Lappas, Alexandros; Arregui San Martín, Francisco Javier Upna Orcid; Pissadakis, Stavros (IEEE, 2023)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      We present a zinc oxide (ZnO) out-cladding, overlaid optical fiber Bragg grating sensor, for the detection of vapors of common alcohols and acetone at concentrations lower than 25 ppm while operating at room temperature ...
    • Pyridine vapors detection by an optical fibre sensor 

      Elosúa Aguado, César Upna Orcid; Bariáin Aisa, Cándido Upna Orcid; Matías Maestro, Ignacio Upna Orcid; Rodríguez, Antonio; Colacio, Enrique; Salinas Castillo, Alfonso; Segura Carretero, Antonio; Fernández Gutiérrez, Alberto (MDPI, 2008)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      An optical fibre sensor has been implemented towards pyridine vapors detection; to achieve this, a novel vapochromic material has been used, which, in solid state, suffers a change in colour from blue to pink-white in ...
    • Real time measuring system of multiple chemical parameters using microstructured optical fibers based sensors 

      López Aldaba, Aitor Upna; López Torres, Diego Upna Orcid; Elosúa Aguado, César Upna Orcid; Arregui San Martín, Francisco Javier Upna Orcid; Auguste, Jean-Louis; Jamier, Raphael; Roy, Philippe; López-Amo Sáinz, Manuel Upna Orcid (IEEE, 2018)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      In this paper, a multiplexing system for simultaneous interrogation of optical fiber sensors which measure different parameters is presented and validated. The whole system has been tested with 6 different sensing heads ...
    • Relative humidity multi-point optical sensors system based on Fast Fourier multiplexing technique 

      López Aldaba, Aitor Upna; López Torres, Diego Upna Orcid; Elosúa Aguado, César Upna Orcid; Auguste, Jean-Louis; Jamier, Raphael; Roy, Philippe; Arregui San Martín, Francisco Javier Upna Orcid; López-Amo Sáinz, Manuel Upna Orcid (SPIE, 2017)   Contribución a congreso / Biltzarrerako ekarpena  OpenAccess
      In this paper, a new multipoint optical fiber system for relative humidity measurements based on Sn02-FP (Fabry-Pérot) sensing heads and an optical interrogator as single active device is presented and characterized. The ...
    • Resilient amplified double ring optical networks to multiplex optical fibre sensors 

      Fernández Vallejo, Montserrat Upna; Pérez Herrera, Rosa Ana Upna Orcid; Elosúa Aguado, César Upna Orcid; Díaz Lucas, Silvia Upna Orcid; Urquhart, Paul; Bariáin Aisa, Cándido Upna Orcid; López-Amo Sáinz, Manuel Upna Orcid (IEEE / OSA, 2009)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      We report the experimental demonstration of two configurations of an amplified optical fibre double ring network for the multiplexing of sensors. The networks are designed to be inherently resilient to fibre failures because ...
    • Route towards a label-free optical waveguide sensing platform based on lossy mode resonances 

      Ruiz Zamarreño, Carlos Upna Orcid; Zubiate Orzanco, Pablo Upna Orcid; Ozcariz Celaya, Aritz Upna Orcid; Elosúa Aguado, César Upna Orcid; Socorro Leránoz, Abián Bentor Upna Orcid; Urrutia Azcona, Aitor Upna Orcid; López Torres, Diego Upna Orcid; Acha Morrás, Nerea de Upna Orcid; Ascorbe Muruzabal, Joaquín Upna Orcid; Vitoria Pascual, Ignacio Upna Orcid; Imas González, José Javier Upna Orcid; Corres Sanz, Jesús María Upna Orcid; Díaz Lucas, Silvia Upna Orcid; Hernáez Sáenz de Zaitigui, Miguel Upna Orcid; Goicoechea Fernández, Javier Upna Orcid; Arregui San Martín, Francisco Javier Upna Orcid; Matías Maestro, Ignacio Upna Orcid; Del Villar, Ignacio Upna Orcid (IFSA Publishing, 2019)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      According to recent market studies of the North American company Allied Market Research, the field of photonic sensors is an emerging strategic field for the following years and it is expected to garner $18 billion by ...
    • Sensitivity optimization of a microstructured optical fiber ammonia gas sensor by means of tuning the thickness of a metal oxide nano-coating 

      López Torres, Diego Upna Orcid; López Aldaba, Aitor Upna; Elosúa Aguado, César Upna Orcid; Auguste, Jean-Louis; Jamier, Raphael; Roy, Philippe; López-Amo Sáinz, Manuel Upna Orcid (IEEE, 2019)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      In this paper, the influence of the thickness of metallic-oxide coatings, ITO, and SnO2 on the sensitivity of a microstructured optical fiber Fabry–Pérot (FP) has been studied with the aim of developing ammonia gas fiber ...
    • SnO2-MOF-Fabry-Pérot humidity optical sensor system based on Fast Fourier transform technique 

      López Aldaba, Aitor Upna; López Torres, Diego Upna Orcid; Ascorbe Muruzabal, Joaquín Upna Orcid; Rota Rodrigo, Sergio Upna; Elosúa Aguado, César Upna Orcid; López-Amo Sáinz, Manuel Upna Orcid; Arregui San Martín, Francisco Javier Upna Orcid; Corres Sanz, Jesús María Upna Orcid; Auguste, Jean-Louis; Jamier, Raphael; Roy, Philippe (SPIE, 2016)   Contribución a congreso / Biltzarrerako ekarpena  OpenAccess
      In this paper, a new sensor system for relative humidity measurements based on a SnO2 sputtering deposition on a microstructured optical fiber (MOF) low-finesse Fabry-Pérot (FP) sensing head is presented and characterized. ...
    • SnO2-MOF-Fabry-Perot optical sensor for relative humidity measurements 

      López Aldaba, Aitor Upna; López Torres, Diego Upna Orcid; Elosúa Aguado, César Upna Orcid; Auguste, Jean-Louis; Jamier, Raphael; Roy, Philippe; Arregui San Martín, Francisco Javier Upna Orcid; López-Amo Sáinz, Manuel Upna Orcid (Elsevier, 2018)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      In this paper, a new optical fiber sensor for relative humidity measurements is presented and characterized. The sensor is based on a SnO2 sputtering deposition on a microstructured optical fiber (MOF) low-finesse Fabry-Pérot ...
    • Straightforward nano patterning on optical fiber for sensors development 

      Acha Morrás, Nerea de Upna Orcid; Elia Lorente, Victor Upna; Delgado Camón, Arantzazu Upna; Arregui San Martín, Francisco Javier Upna Orcid; Elosúa Aguado, César Upna Orcid (Optical Society of America, 2020)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      A simple method to prepare a nano pattern along the surface of an optical fiber is applied in this Letter to develop a pH sensor. The template is made of a block copolymer that defines specific locations where gold nano ...

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