Relative humidity sensor based on tapered plastic optical fibre with full-and spiral-patterned agarose gel coating

• Main Authors: Roslan, F.S., Saidin, Norazlina, Harun, S.W., Md Ralib @ Md Raghib, Aliza 'Aini
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English; English
• Published: IEEE 2020
• Subjects: T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/87846/3/87846_%20Relative%20Humidity%20Sensor%20based%20on%20Tapered%20Plastic.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/87846/2/87846_Relative%20Humidity%20Sensor%20based%20on%20Tapered%20Plastic%20SCOPUS.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/87846/; https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9250987
• Institution: Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia

A relative humidity sensor based on plastic optical fibre (POF) is constructed by using chemical etching method. Agarose gel was chosen as the sensing layer with two different patterns which are fully coated pattern and spirally coated pattern. The agarose gel acts as a moisture absorbent due to...