8 results on '"Álvaro Gonzalez"'
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2. Optimization of Magnetoimpedance Effect and Magnetic Properties of Fe-Rich Glass-Coated Microwires by Annealing
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Alvaro González, Alfonso García-Gomez, Valentina Zhukova, Paula Corte-Leon, Mihail Ipatov, Juan Maria Blanco, Julian Gonzalez, and Arcady Zhukov
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magnetic microwires ,annealing ,hysteresis loop ,giant magnetoimpedance ,domain wall propagation ,magnetic anisotropy ,Chemical technology ,TP1-1185 - Abstract
As-prepared Fe-rich microwires with perfectly rectangular hysteresis loops present magnetization reversal through fast domain wall propagation, while the giant magnetoimpedance (GMI) effect in Fe-rich microwires is rather low. However, the lower cost of Fe-rich microwires makes them attractive for magnetic sensors applications. We studied the effect of conventional (furnace) annealing and Joule heating on magnetic-propertied domain wall (DW) dynamics and the GMI effect in two Fe microwires with different geometries. We observed that magnetic softness, GMI effect and domain wall (DW) dynamics can be substantially improved by appropriate annealing. Observed experimental results are discussed considering the counterbalance between the internal stresses relaxation and induced magnetic anisotropy associated with the presence of an Oersted magnetic field during Joule heating.
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- 2023
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3. Individual Cell-Level Temperature Monitoring of a Lithium-Ion Battery Pack
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Keith M. Alcock, Álvaro González-Vila, Mustehsan Beg, Francisco Vedreño-Santos, Zuansi Cai, Lourdes S. M. Alwis, and Keng Goh
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FOS ,FBG ,Bragg ,lithium-ion ,battery ,temperature monitoring ,Chemical technology ,TP1-1185 - Abstract
The work described herein details the deployment of an optical fibre strand with five fibre Bragg grating (FBG) sensors for individual cell-level temperature monitoring of a three-cell lithium-ion battery pack. A polymer guide tube with 3D printed plinths is employed, resulting in high precision temperature readings with an average error of 0.97 °C, 1.33 °C, and 1.27 °C for FBG sensors on each battery cell, surpassing traditional thermocouple and platinum resistance sensors in some circumstances. The temperature response of FBGs positioned between battery cells demonstrates that, in addition to sensing temperature at the cell level, temperature data can be effectively acquired between cells, suggesting that FBGs may be used to monitor the heat radiated from individual cells in a battery pack.
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- 2023
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4. Optimization of Cladding Diameter for Refractive Index Sensing in Tilted Fiber Bragg Gratings
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Sanzhar Korganbayev, Marzhan Sypabekova, Aida Amantayeva, Álvaro González-Vila, Christophe Caucheteur, Paola Saccomandi, and Daniele Tosi
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optical fiber sensors ,refractive index sensing ,tilted fiber Bragg grating ,chemical etching ,etching optimization ,Chemical technology ,TP1-1185 - Abstract
This work presents an experimental investigation of the effect of chemical etching on the refractive index (RI) sensitivity of tilted fiber Bragg gratings (TFBGs). Hydrofluoric acid (HF) was used stepwise in order to reduce the optical fiber diameter from 125 µm to 13 µm. After each etching step, TFBGs were calibrated using two ranges of RI solutions: the first one with high RI variation (from 1.33679 RIU to 1.37078 RIU) and the second with low RI variation (from 1.34722 RIU to 1.34873 RIU). RI sensitivity was analyzed in terms of wavelength shift and intensity change of the grating resonances. The highest amplitude sensitivities obtained are 1008 dB/RIU for the high RI range and 8160 dB/RIU for the low RI range, corresponding to the unetched TFBG. The highest wavelength sensitivities are 38.8 nm/RIU for a fiber diameter of 100 µm for the high RI range, and 156 nm/RIU for a diameter of 40 µm for the small RI range. In addition, the effect of the etching process on the spectral intensity of the cladding modes, their wavelength separation and sensor linearity (R2) were studied as well. As a result, an optimization of the etching process is provided, so that the best trade-off between sensitivity, intensity level, and fiber thickness can be obtained.
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- 2022
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5. Tuning of Magnetoimpedance Effect and Magnetic Properties of Fe-Rich Glass-Coated Microwires by Joule Heating
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Alvaro Gonzalez, Valentina Zhukova, Paula Corte-Leon, Alexandr Chizhik, Mihail Ipatov, Juan Maria Blanco, and Arcady Zhukov
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magnetic microwires ,magnetic anisotropy ,joule heating ,giant magnetoimpedance ,domain wall propagation ,hysteresis loop ,Chemical technology ,TP1-1185 - Abstract
The influence of Joule heating on magnetic properties, giant magnetoimpedance (GMI) effect and domain wall (DW) dynamics of Fe75B9Si12C4 glass-coated microwires was studied. A remarkable (up to an order of magnitude) increase in GMI ratio is observed in Joule heated samples in the frequency range from 10 MHz to 1 GHz. In particular, an increase in GMI ratio, from 10% up to 140% at 200 MHz is observed in Joule heated samples. Hysteresis loops of annealed samples maintain a rectangular shape, while a slight decrease in coercivity from 93 A/m to 77 A/m, after treatment, is observed. On the other hand, a modification of MOKE hysteresis loops is observed upon Joule heating. Additionally, an improvement in DW dynamics after Joule heating is documented, achieving DW propagation velocities of up to 700 m/s. GMI ratio improvement along with the change in MOKE loops and DW dynamics improvement have been discussed considering magnetic anisotropy induced by Oersted magnetic fields in the surface layer during Joule heating and internal stress relaxation. A substantial GMI ratio improvement observed in Fe-rich Joule-heated microwires with a rectangular hysteresis loop and fast DW propagation, together with the fact that Fe is a more common and less expensive metal than Co, make them suitable for use in magnetic sensors.
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- 2022
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6. Development of Co-Rich Microwires with Graded Magnetic Anisotropy
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Valentina Zhukova, Paula Corte-Leon, Juan Maria Blanco, Mihail Ipatov, Alvaro Gonzalez, and Arcady Zhukov
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magnetic microwires ,magnetic anisotropy ,thermal treatment ,Chemical technology ,TP1-1185 - Abstract
In this paper, a gradual change in the hysteresis loop of Co-rich glass-coated microwire stress-annealed at variable temperature is observed. Such microwires annealed with a temperature gradient also present a variable squareness ratio and magnetic anisotropy field along the microwire’s length. The obtained graded anisotropy has been attributed to a gradual modification of the domain structure along the microwire originated by a counterbalance between shape, magnetoelastic, and induced magnetic anisotropies. Accordingly, we propose a rather simple route to design graded magnetic anisotropy in a magnetic microwire.
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- 2021
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7. m-SFT: A Novel Mobile Health System to Assess the Elderly Physical Condition
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Raquel Ureña, Francisco Chiclana, Alvaro Gonzalez-Alvarez, Enrique Herrera-Viedma, and Jose A. Moral-Munoz
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senior fitness test ,physical condition ,elderly ,physical condition assessment ,m-health ,mobile health ,healthy aging ,Chemical technology ,TP1-1185 - Abstract
The development of innovative solutions that allow the aging population to remain healthier and independent longer is essential to alleviate the burden that this increasing segment of the population supposes for the long term sustainability of the public health systems. It has been claimed that promoting physical activity could prevent functional decline. However, given the vulnerability of this population, the activity prescription requires to be tailored to the individual’s physical condition. We propose mobile Senior Fitness Test (m-SFT), a novel m-health system, that allows the health practitioner to determine the elderly physical condition by implementing a smartphone-based version of the senior fitness test (SFT). The technical reliability of m-SFT has been tested by carrying out a comparative study in seven volunteers (53–61 years) between the original SFT and the proposed m-health system obtaining high agreement (intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC) between 0.93 and 0.99). The system usability has been evaluated by 34 independent health experts (mean = 36.64 years; standard deviation = 6.26 years) by means of the System Usability Scale (SUS) obtaining an average SUS score of 84.4 out of 100. Both results point out that m-SFT is a reliable and easy to use m-health system for the evaluation of the elderly physical condition, also useful in intervention programs to follow-up the patient’s evolution.
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- 2020
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8. Plasmonic Optical Fiber-Grating Immunosensing: A Review
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Tuan Guo, Álvaro González-Vila, Médéric Loyez, and Christophe Caucheteur
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optical fibers ,fiber Bragg gratings ,plasmonics ,sensing ,nanoparticles ,Chemical technology ,TP1-1185 - Abstract
Plasmonic immunosensors are usually made of a noble metal (in the form of a film or nanoparticles) on which bioreceptors are grafted to sense analytes based on the antibody/antigen or other affinity mechanism. Optical fiber configurations are a miniaturized counterpart to the bulky Kretschmann prism and allow easy light injection and remote operation. To excite a surface plasmon (SP), the core-guided light is locally outcoupled. Unclad optical fibers were the first configurations reported to this end. Among the different architectures able to bring light in contact with the surrounding medium, a great quantity of research is today being conducted on metal-coated fiber gratings photo-imprinted in the fiber core, as they provide modal features that enable SP generation at any wavelength, especially in the telecommunication window. They are perfectly suited for use with cost-effective high-resolution interrogators, allowing both a high sensitivity and a low limit of detection to be reached in immunosensing. This paper will review recent progress made in this field with different kinds of gratings: uniform, tilted and eccentric short-period gratings as well as long-period fiber gratings. Practical cases will be reported, showing that such sensors can be used in very small volumes of analytes and even possibly applied to in vivo diagnosis.
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- 2017
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