We report the realization of a polarimetric surface plasmon resonance imaging system capable of dynamically resolving a change in the optical anisotropy of biochemical films. Anisotropies as small as 10(-3) refractive index unit on nanometer-thick samples can be resolved. As an example, we present here the dynamical anisotropy obtained by the electrical patterning of a film consisting of a self-assembled monolayer deposited on gold, covered with a phospholipid hemimembrane.
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Sensors (Basel)
November 2024
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA.
Recent advancements in novel fiber-coupled and portable terahertz (THz) spectroscopic imaging technology have accelerated applications in nondestructive testing (NDT). Although the polarization information of THz waves can play a critical role in material characterization, there are few demonstrations of polarization-resolved THz imaging as an NDT modality due to the deficiency of such polarimetric imaging devices. In this paper, we have inspected industrial carbon fiber composites using a portable and handheld imaging scanner in which the THz polarizations of two orthogonal channels are simultaneously captured by two photoconductive antennas.
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December 2024
Department of Water Resource Development & Management, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India, 247667.
The accurate retrieval of soil moisture plays a pivotal role in agriculture, particularly in effective irrigation water management, as it significantly affects crop growth and yield. The present study mainly focuses on the robustly investigated capability of dual-polarized Sentinel-1 SAR-derived vegetation descriptors in the water cloud model (WCM) in surface soil moisture (SSM) retrieval over wheat crops. The vegetation descriptors used in the study are radar vegetation index (RVI), backscattering ratio, polarimetric radar vegetation index (PRVI), dual polarization SAR vegetation index (DPSVI), and dual polarimetric radar vegetation index (DpRVI).
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November 2024
Department of Microwave Engineering, School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001, China.
Characterization of electromagnetic wave polarization states is critical in various applications of materials, biomedical, and imaging. The emergence of metasurfaces opens up the possibility of implementing highly integrated full-Stokes imagers. Despite rapid development, prevailing schemes on metasurface-based full-Stokes imagers require interleaved or cascaded designs, inevitably resulting in performance deterioration, bulky size, and complicating the imaging procedure due to misalignment.
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December 2024
Department of Cosmosciences, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan.
Water bodies are critical to the environment, providing numerous ecological benefits; however, human activities increasingly threaten their quality. Natural water systems exhibit regional variability, dominated by organic and inorganic species, rendering in-situ measurements insufficient. Current remote sensing methods often overlook the impact of surface light components, which vary with solar radiation and wave intensity.
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