Micro and Nanostructured Materials for the Development of Optical Fibre Sensors

Cesar Elosua; Francisco Javier Arregui; Ignacio Del Villar; Carlos Ruiz-Zamarreño; Jesus M Corres; Candido Bariain; Javier Goicoechea; Miguel Hernaez; Pedro J Rivero; Abian B Socorro; Aitor Urrutia; Pedro Sanchez; Pablo Zubiate; Diego Lopez-Torres; Nerea De Acha; Joaquin Ascorbe; Aritz Ozcariz; Ignacio R Matias

doi:10.3390/s17102312

Micro and Nanostructured Materials for the Development of Optical Fibre Sensors

Sensors (Basel). 2017 Oct 11;17(10):2312. doi: 10.3390/s17102312.

Authors

Cesar Elosua^{1

2}, Francisco Javier Arregui^{3

4}, Ignacio Del Villar^{5

6}, Carlos Ruiz-Zamarreño^{7

8}, Jesus M Corres^{9

10}, Candido Bariain^{11

12}, Javier Goicoechea^{13

14}, Miguel Hernaez^{15

16}, Pedro J Rivero^{17

18}, Abian B Socorro^{19

20}, Aitor Urrutia^{21

22}, Pedro Sanchez²³, Pablo Zubiate²⁴, Diego Lopez-Torres²⁵, Nerea De Acha²⁶, Joaquin Ascorbe²⁷, Aritz Ozcariz²⁸, Ignacio R Matias^{29

30}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Electric and Electronic Engineering, Public University of Navarre, E-31006 Pamplona, Spain. cesar.elosua@unavarra.es.
² Institute of Smart Cities (ISC), Public University of Navarre, E-31006 Pamplona, Spain. cesar.elosua@unavarra.es.
³ Department of Electric and Electronic Engineering, Public University of Navarre, E-31006 Pamplona, Spain. parregui@unavarra.es.
⁴ Institute of Smart Cities (ISC), Public University of Navarre, E-31006 Pamplona, Spain. parregui@unavarra.es.
⁵ Department of Electric and Electronic Engineering, Public University of Navarre, E-31006 Pamplona, Spain. ignacio.delvillar@unavarra.es.
⁶ Institute of Smart Cities (ISC), Public University of Navarre, E-31006 Pamplona, Spain. ignacio.delvillar@unavarra.es.
⁷ Department of Electric and Electronic Engineering, Public University of Navarre, E-31006 Pamplona, Spain. carlos.ruiz@unavarra.es.
⁸ Institute of Smart Cities (ISC), Public University of Navarre, E-31006 Pamplona, Spain. carlos.ruiz@unavarra.es.
⁹ Department of Electric and Electronic Engineering, Public University of Navarre, E-31006 Pamplona, Spain. jmcorres@unavarra.es.
¹⁰ Institute of Smart Cities (ISC), Public University of Navarre, E-31006 Pamplona, Spain. jmcorres@unavarra.es.
¹¹ Department of Electric and Electronic Engineering, Public University of Navarre, E-31006 Pamplona, Spain. cba@unavarra.es.
¹² Institute of Smart Cities (ISC), Public University of Navarre, E-31006 Pamplona, Spain. cba@unavarra.es.
¹³ Department of Electric and Electronic Engineering, Public University of Navarre, E-31006 Pamplona, Spain. javier.goico@unavarra.es.
¹⁴ Institute of Smart Cities (ISC), Public University of Navarre, E-31006 Pamplona, Spain. javier.goico@unavarra.es.
¹⁵ Department of Electric and Electronic Engineering, Public University of Navarre, E-31006 Pamplona, Spain. miguel.hernaez@unavarra.es.
¹⁶ Institute of Smart Cities (ISC), Public University of Navarre, E-31006 Pamplona, Spain. miguel.hernaez@unavarra.es.
¹⁷ Department of Electric and Electronic Engineering, Public University of Navarre, E-31006 Pamplona, Spain. pedrojose.rivero@unavarra.es.
¹⁸ Institute of Smart Cities (ISC), Public University of Navarre, E-31006 Pamplona, Spain. pedrojose.rivero@unavarra.es.
¹⁹ Department of Electric and Electronic Engineering, Public University of Navarre, E-31006 Pamplona, Spain. ab.socorro@unavarra.es.
²⁰ Institute of Smart Cities (ISC), Public University of Navarre, E-31006 Pamplona, Spain. ab.socorro@unavarra.es.
²¹ Department of Electric and Electronic Engineering, Public University of Navarre, E-31006 Pamplona, Spain. aitor.urrutia@unavarra.es.
²² Institute of Smart Cities (ISC), Public University of Navarre, E-31006 Pamplona, Spain. aitor.urrutia@unavarra.es.
²³ Department of Electric and Electronic Engineering, Public University of Navarre, E-31006 Pamplona, Spain. pedro.sanchez@unavarra.es.
²⁴ Department of Electric and Electronic Engineering, Public University of Navarre, E-31006 Pamplona, Spain. pablo.zubiate@unavarra.es.
²⁵ Department of Electric and Electronic Engineering, Public University of Navarre, E-31006 Pamplona, Spain. diego.lopez@unavarra.es.
²⁶ Department of Electric and Electronic Engineering, Public University of Navarre, E-31006 Pamplona, Spain. nerea.deacha@unavarra.es.
²⁷ Department of Electric and Electronic Engineering, Public University of Navarre, E-31006 Pamplona, Spain. joaquin.ascorbe@unavarra.es.
²⁸ Department of Electric and Electronic Engineering, Public University of Navarre, E-31006 Pamplona, Spain. aritz.ozcariz@unavarra.es.
²⁹ Department of Electric and Electronic Engineering, Public University of Navarre, E-31006 Pamplona, Spain. natxo@unavarra.es.
³⁰ Institute of Smart Cities (ISC), Public University of Navarre, E-31006 Pamplona, Spain. natxo@unavarra.es.

Abstract

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 ones. The small dimensions of the fibre generally require that the sensing material be loaded into a supporting matrix whose morphology is adjusted at a nanometric scale. Thanks to the advances in nanotechnology new deposition methods have been developed: they allow reagents from different chemical nature to be embedded into films with a thickness always below a few microns that also show a relevant aspect ratio to ensure a high transduction interface. This review reveals some of the main techniques that are currently been employed to develop this kind of sensors, describing in detail both the resulting supporting matrices as well as the sensing materials used. The main objective is to offer a general view of the state of the art to expose the main challenges and chances that this technology is facing currently.

Keywords: bio medical sensing; chemical sensing; nanostructured materials; nanotechnology; optical fibre sensor.

Publication types

Review