ing at the problems of traditional mechanical gratings, such as unadjustable period, low detection accuracy and inability to realize continuous spectral scanning, a low-voltage direct current driven tunable nanograting based on composite material made of graphene (GNP) and polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is proposed, and the overall structure of grating is designed. The effects of grating structure size and driving voltage on grating period and film temperature are studied by using COMSOL Multiphysics software. The analysis results show that the maximum temperature change of film is about 160 ℃ and the maximum tuning amount of grating period is 160 nm within 5 s under low-voltage driving. Moreover, the changing laws of grating period and film temperature are similar under different driving voltages, which meets the different detection requirements for industrial gases.
.ing at the issue of strain of elastic packaging materials for fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors used in high-temperature oil and gas wells in a wide temperature range, austenitic stainless steel and trial-produced niobium-based constant-elastic alloys are designed and manufactured into elastic strain elements, and the FBGs are pasted on them for packaging to make tension sensors respectively. The strain sensing performance of the two materials at 30--250 ℃ is investigated and compared by applying tension to the sensors at different temperatures. The results show that linearity of the tensile response of the two alloy materials at different temperatures is better than 0.999; however, as temperature increases, the tensile response sensitivity decreases, repeatability decreases, and hysteresis increases. Temperature affects the strain sensing performance of the elastic material; in the temperature range of 30--250 ℃, the sensor packaged using the trial-produced niobium-based constant-elastic alloy is superior than the sensor packaged using the austenitic stainless steel material in terms of repeatability, hysteresis, linearity, and sensitivity stability. Thus, the trail-produced niobium-based constant-elastic alloy can be used as an elastic packaging material for FBG sensors in a wide temperature range.
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