Department of Electrical Engineering (EE)
Professor W Jin and his research team "Gas Sensing Research" being honoured as "2020 China’s Top Ten Optical Breakthroughs" by China Laser Press
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In the applied research category, Professor Jin Wei, Chair Professor of Photonic Instrumentation, and his team developed a novel method of gas sensing called the Mode-phase-difference Photothermal Spectroscopy. The method was hailed as "a landmark technique in fibre-optic gas sensing" by a reviewer in Nature Communications, where the research results were published. The innovation significantly outperforms state-of-the-art electrochemical and semiconductor gas sensors, and enables multi-component gas detection with a single sensing element. It paves the way for ultra-precision gas sensing for applications such as harmful gas detection in a space station and high voltage transformer condition monitoring.
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