A simple infrared nanosensor array based on carbon nanoparticles

Abstract

A simple (2×2) pixelated flexible infrared nanosensor array based on carbon nanoparticles (CNPs) was fabricated through a simple and low-cost flame method. By integrated with a micro controller unit, the sensor array could detect power density of incident infrared light in real-time. The mechanism for the superior infrared sensing property of the flexible sensor array based on CNP was also studied in detail in this work.

Keywords

carbon nanoparticles (CNPs) / infrared sensor / array

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Acknowledgements

J. Zhou thanks for the financial support of the project from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51002056), the National Basic Research Program of China (No. 2012CB619302), the Foundation for the Author of National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of PR China (No. 201035), the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (NCET-10-0397). L. Y. Yuan thanks the support from the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 20100480892). J. J. Dai thanks the support from the graduate innovation fund of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HF-09-19-2011-230). The authors thank the Analysis and Testing Center of Huazhong University of Science and Technology for support.

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