Autonomous field-deployable device for the measurement of phosphate in natural water

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6755, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Slater, Conor ^a   Cleary, John ^a   McGraw, Christina M ^a   Yerazunis, William S ^b   Lau, King Tong ^a   Diamond, Dermot ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^b MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Environment; LED; Microfluidics; Network; Phosphate; Photodiode; Sensor; Wireless

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; MICROFLUIDICS; NATURAL WATER GEOCHEMISTRY; PHOSPHATES; PHOTODIODES; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

FIELD-DEPLOYABLE DEVICES; FLUID HANDLING; TWO-POINT CALIBRATION;

CHEMICAL SENSORS;

EID: 42449152945     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.733754     Document Type: Conference Paper

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