Elosúa Aguado, César

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Ingeniería Eléctrica, Electrónica y de Comunicación

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ISC. Institute of Smart Cities

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  • PublicationOpen Access
    Title enhancement of the sensitivity of a volatile organic compounds MOF-sensor by means of its structure
    (MDPI, 2017) López Torres, Diego; López Aldaba, Aitor; Elosúa Aguado, César; Auguste, Jean-Louis; Jamier, Raphael; Roy, Philippe; López-Amo Sáinz, Manuel; Arregui San Martín, Francisco Javier; Ingeniaritza Elektrikoa eta Elektronikoa; Institute for Advanced Materials and Mathematics - INAMAT2; Ingeniería Eléctrica y Electrónica; Universidad Pública de Navarra / Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa
    In this paper, we experimentally compare several core structures of Microstructured Optical Fibers (MOFs) for low-finesse Fabry-Pérot (FP) sensors. These sensors are designed for Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) measurements. We deposit Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) thin films by sputtering on the MOFs and different optical phase responses of the FP were measured for saturated atmospheres of ethanol. The sensitivity of the developed sensors is demonstrated to depend on the geometry and the dimensions of the MOF-cores. The sensors show recovery times under 100 s and the baselines are fully recovered after exposure to VOC.
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    Piezotronic, ZnO overlaid Bragg grating organic vapor sensors
    (IEEE, 2023) López Torres, Diego; Elosúa Aguado, César; Pappas, Georgios A.; Konstantaki, Maria; Klini, Argyro; Lappas, Alexandros; Arregui San Martín, Francisco Javier; Pissadakis, Stavros; Ingeniería Eléctrica, Electrónica y de Comunicación; Ingeniaritza Elektrikoa, Elektronikoaren eta Telekomunikazio Ingeniaritzaren; Universidad Pública de Navarra / Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa
    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 (RT). The optical fiber sensing results indicate a chemostriction effect occurring in the ZnO layer when exposed to volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which in turn induces shifts in the cladding, and most importantly, in the core confined, Bragg mode. The sensor exhibits a maximum sensitivity of ∼1 pm/ppm to ethanol vapors, with exposure to other alcohol vapors (isopropanol and methanol) showing lower sensitivities; also, response to acetone vapors was traced at ∼0.5 pm/ppm. X-ray diffraction (XRD) measurements of the ZnO nanolayer revealed that, in saturated ethanol vapors atmosphere, the polycrystalline ZnO film undergoes a contraction by 0.6% of the interplanar distance corresponding to the (002) crystalline direction, denoting the chemostrictive effect through an underlying piezotronic mechanism. XRD measurements and optical fiber sensing data are further correlated by numerical simulations carried out, so to study the strain interactions of the ZnO layer with the silica glass optical fiber.
  • PublicationOpen Access
    Enhancement of the sensitivity of a volatile organic compounds MOF sensor by means of its structure
    (MDPI, 2019) López Torres, Diego; López Aldaba, Aitor; Elosúa Aguado, César; Auguste, Jean-Louis; Jamier, Raphael; Roy, Philippe; López-Amo Sáinz, Manuel; Arregui San Martín, Francisco Javier; Ingeniería Eléctrica y Electrónica; Ingeniaritza Elektrikoa eta Elektronikoa; Institute of Smart Cities - ISC; Universidad Pública de Navarra / Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa
    In this paper, we experimentally compare several core structures of Microstructured Optical Fibers (MOFs) for low-finesse Fabry-Pérot (FP) sensors. These sensors are designed for Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) measurements. We deposit Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) thin films by sputtering on the MOFs and different optical phase responses of the FP were measured for saturated atmospheres of ethanol. The sensitivity of the developed sensors is demonstrated to depend on the geometry and the dimensions of the MOF-cores. The sensors show recovery times under 100 s and the baselines are fully recovered after exposure to VOC.
  • PublicationOpen Access
    Comparison between different structures of suspended-core microstructured optical fibers for volatiles sensing
    (MDPI, 2018) López Torres, Diego; López Aldaba, Aitor; Elosúa Aguado, César; Auguste, Jean-Louis; Jamier, Raphael; Roy, Philippe; López-Amo Sáinz, Manuel; Arregui San Martín, Francisco Javier; Ingeniaritza Elektrikoa, Elektronikoaren eta Telekomunikazio Ingeniaritzaren; Institute of Smart Cities - ISC; Ingeniería Eléctrica, Electrónica y de Comunicación; Universidad Pública de Navarra / Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa
    In this paper, different core structures of microstructured optical fibers (MOFs) for low-finesse Fabry-Perot (FP) sensors are experimentally compared to get the highest sensitivity. These devices are designed for volatile organic compounds (VOCs) measurements. Indium tin oxide (ITO) thin films were deposited by sputtering on the MOFs and different optical fast Fourier transform (FFT) phase responses from the FP were measured for saturated atmospheres of ethanol. It has been demonstrated that the sensitivities of the developed sensors depend strongly on the geometry and the dimensions of the MOF-cores. The sensors show recovery times shorter than 100 s and the baselines are fully recovered after every exposure to ethanol vapors.