Ruiz Zamarreño, Carlos

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Ruiz Zamarreño

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Carlos

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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
    Fiber-optic pH sensors fabrication based on selective deposition of neutral red
    (IEEE, 2009-01-22) Hernáez Sáenz de Zaitigui, Miguel; Arregui San Martín, Francisco Javier; Matías Maestro, Ignacio; Ruiz Zamarreño, Carlos; Ingeniería Eléctrica y Electrónica; Ingeniaritza Elektrikoa eta Elektronikoa
    In this work, a novel application of the electric field directed layer-by-layer self assembly (EFDLA) selective deposition method for the fabrication of optical fiber pH sensors is presented. Here, indium tin oxide (ITO) coated optical fibers have been fabricated via a dip-coating deposition method. These fibers are used as electrodes in the EFDLA protocol in order to deposit selectively the sensitive layer. Neutral Red (NR) colorimetric pH sensitive indicator and the polymers poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) and poly(allylamine hydrochloride) (PAH) are used in order to obtain a pH sensitive nanostructured coating onto ITO coated optical fibers. The results obtained in this work revealed that the LbL material adsorption on the electrodes can be enhanced or even inhibited when applying a specific direct current voltage between them under some other specific fabrication parameters. Particularly, the response of these sensors to variations of the pH in the surrounding medium was studied when the pH of the solutions used for the fabrication of the films was adjusted to 7.0 and the potential applied between electrodes was set to 2.5 V. These sensors showed fast response time and high repeatability.
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    Optical fiber sensors based on indium tin oxide surface plasmon resonance supporting coatings
    (SPIE, 2009-10-05) Ruiz Zamarreño, Carlos; Hernáez Sáenz de Zaitigui, Miguel; Matías Maestro, Ignacio; Arregui San Martín, Francisco Javier; Ingeniería Eléctrica y Electrónica; Ingeniaritza Elektrikoa eta Elektronikoa
    In this work, surface plasmon resonance (SPR) based optical fiber sensors are revisited by using a transparent conductive coating, Indium Tin Oxide in our case, as the SPR supporting layer. The utilization of these coatings shifts the plasmon resonance band to the infra-red region and allows the tunability of the SPR wavelength by adjusting the film fabrication parameters. Here, we study the fabrication process of these novel devices and characterize their response to variations in the refractive index of the external medium opening the door to a wide range of applications.