Plenary Talk 3 - Optical nanosensor technology – from basic research to industrial applications
- Event
- AMA Conferences 2015
2015-05-19 - 2015-05-21
Nürnberg, Germany - Band
- AMA Conferences 2015
- Chapter
- Proceedings SENSOR 2015
- Author(s)
- M. Reitzig, J. Katzmann, C. Schuster, T. Härtling - Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems, Dresden (Germany)
- Pages
- 25 - 29
- DOI
- 10.5162/sensor2015/3
- ISBN
- 978-3-9813484-8-4
- Price
- free
Abstract
Optically active nanomaterials enable exciting novel applications of optical measurement technology such as gas sensing with nanoscale infrared antennas, dosimetry with ceramic phosphors, or molecular sensing and detection by means of nanostructured surfaces in general, to name a few only. Some techniques are still in their infancy, while others already led to industrially relevant applications. This article intentionally illustrates both ends of the readiness level scale to provide an idea of the bandwidth currently found in this field of research. On the one hand, surface-enhanced infrared spectroscopy and the fabrication of the necessary infrared nanoantennas as pursued in the group of the authors is described to give an example of an extremely promising, yet not market-ready optical nanosensor technology. On the other hand, the use of ceramic phosphors for radiation dose measurements is presented as a technique with a high technology readiness level and economically relevant application scenarios.