Sapphire Based Fiber-Optic Sensing for Extreme High Temperatures

Temperature sensing is one of the most common and needed sensing technique, especially in harsh environment like a coal gasifier or an airplane engine. Single crystal sapphire has been studied in the last two decades as a candidate for harsh environment sensing task, due to its excellent mechanical...

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Main Author: Yu, Guo
Other Authors: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: Virginia Tech 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/76982
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05042011-133528/