Wireless pressure sensor using laser targeting of silicon carbide

Optical Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Riza, Nabeel A ^a,b   Ghauri, Farzan ^b   Perez, Frank ^a  

^a Nuonics Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Extreme environments; Optical sensors; Pressure sensor

Indexed keywords

LASER APPLICATIONS; PRESSURE SENSORS; SILICON CARBIDE; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION;

IMAGE DEMAGNIFICATION; OPTICAL RESPONSE; WIRELESS PRESSURE SENSOR;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 34047243307     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2432885     Document Type: Article

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