CMOS sensor-based palm-sized in-line optical analysis device for microchemistry systems

Author

Tokuda, Takashi ; Wakama, N. ; Terao, Kyohei ; Masuda, Kohji ; Mori, Ryuhei ; Noda, Toshio ; Sasagawa, Kiyotaka ; Nishiyama, Youji ; Kakiuchi, K. ; Ohta, Jun

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Mater. Sci., Nara Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Nara, Japan

Volume

50

Issue

17

fYear

2014

fDate

Aug. 14 2014

Firstpage

1222

Lastpage

1224

Abstract

A palm-sized optical measurement device capable of polarisation rotation and single-wavelength absorption measurements is presented. The device is equipped with a polarisation-analysing CMOS image sensor with an on-chip multi-angular polariser array. The volume of the device is as small as 51 cm³, which is smaller than both 1/1000 of a conventional desktop polarimeter and 1/10 of the previous device. The capability of the proposed device to perform simultaneous polarisation rotation/single-wavelength absorption measurements is experimentally verified through in situ monitoring of a photochemical reaction performed in a microflow reactor.

Keywords

CMOS image sensors; chemical sensors; flow sensors; light absorption; light polarisation; microsensors; optical sensors; photochemistry; polarimeters; rotation measurement; sensor arrays; CMOS sensor-based palm-sized in-line optical analysis device; desktop polarimeter; microchemistry system; microflow reactor; on-chip multiangular polariser array; palm-sized optical measurement device; photochemical reaction; polarisation rotation measurement; polarisation rotation-single-wavelength absorption measurement; polarisation-analysing CMOS image sensor; single-wavelength absorption measurement;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Electronics Letters

Publisher

iet

ISSN

0013-5194

Type

jour

DOI

10.1049/el.2014.1572

Filename

6880222