Harith, Z. and Batumalay, Malathy* and Irawati, N. and Harun, S. W. and Arof, Hamzah and Ahmad, H. (2017) Relative humidity sensor employing tapered plastic optical fiber coated with seeded Al-doped ZnO. International Journal for Light and Electron Optics, 144. pp. 257-262. ISSN 0030-4026
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A relative humidity sensor operating on intensity modulation principle is proposed and demonstrated using a tapered plastic optical fiber (POF) that is coated with seeded Al-doped ZnO nanostructures. The POF was tapered by mechanical etching and then coated with seeded Al-doped ZnO nanostructures using sol-gel immersion method with different mol% of Al nitrate that acted as dopant. It was found that 1 mol% of Al nitrate produced the best performance compared to other doping concentrations. Then the performances of sensors fabricated using seeded and non-seeded coating methods with 1 mol% of Al-doped ZnO were compared and investigated. The sensor developed using seeded coating method showed a better sensitivity of 0.0386 mV/%, as opposed to the other sensor which registered a sensitivity of 0.0148 mV/%. The results show that tapered POF with Al-doped ZnO nanostructures deposited using seeded coating method is excellent for detecting changes in relative humidity.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Al-doped zinc oxideFiber optic sensorTapered plastic optical fiberRelative humidity (RH) sensor |
| Subjects: | T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Engineering & Quantity Surveying |
| Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email masilah.mansor@newinti.edu.my |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Nov 2017 07:16 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Nov 2017 07:16 |
| URI: | http://eprints.intimal.edu.my/id/eprint/984 |
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