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Optical and electrical characterizations of multifunctional silver phosphate glass and polymer-based optical fibers

In recent years, the fabrication of multifunctional fibers has expanded for multiple applications that require the transmission of both light and electricity. Fibers featuring these two properties are usually composed either of a single material that supports the different characteristics or of a co...

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Autores principales: Rioux, Maxime, Ledemi, Yannick, Morency, Steeve, de Lima Filho, Elton Soares, Messaddeq, Younès
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5335562/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28256608
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep43917
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author Rioux, Maxime
Ledemi, Yannick
Morency, Steeve
de Lima Filho, Elton Soares
Messaddeq, Younès
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Ledemi, Yannick
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description In recent years, the fabrication of multifunctional fibers has expanded for multiple applications that require the transmission of both light and electricity. Fibers featuring these two properties are usually composed either of a single material that supports the different characteristics or of a combination of different materials. In this work, we fabricated (i) novel single-core step-index optical fibers made of electrically conductive AgI-AgPO(3)-WO(3) glass and (ii) novel multimaterial fibers with different designs made of AgI-AgPO(3)-WO(3) glass and optically transparent polycarbonate and poly (methyl methacrylate) polymers. The multifunctional fibers produced show light transmission over a wide range of wavelengths from 500 to 1000 nm for the single-core fibers and from 400 to 1000 nm for the multimaterial fibers. Furthermore, these fibers showed excellent electrical conductivity with values ranging between 10(−3) and 10(−1) S·cm(−1) at room temperature within the range of AC frequencies from 1 Hz to 1 MHz. Multimodal taper-tipped fibre microprobes were then fabricated and were characterized. This advanced design could provide promising tools for in vivo electrophysiological experiments that require light delivery through an optical core in addition to neuronal activity recording.
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spelling pubmed-53355622017-03-07 Optical and electrical characterizations of multifunctional silver phosphate glass and polymer-based optical fibers Rioux, Maxime Ledemi, Yannick Morency, Steeve de Lima Filho, Elton Soares Messaddeq, Younès Sci Rep Article In recent years, the fabrication of multifunctional fibers has expanded for multiple applications that require the transmission of both light and electricity. Fibers featuring these two properties are usually composed either of a single material that supports the different characteristics or of a combination of different materials. In this work, we fabricated (i) novel single-core step-index optical fibers made of electrically conductive AgI-AgPO(3)-WO(3) glass and (ii) novel multimaterial fibers with different designs made of AgI-AgPO(3)-WO(3) glass and optically transparent polycarbonate and poly (methyl methacrylate) polymers. The multifunctional fibers produced show light transmission over a wide range of wavelengths from 500 to 1000 nm for the single-core fibers and from 400 to 1000 nm for the multimaterial fibers. Furthermore, these fibers showed excellent electrical conductivity with values ranging between 10(−3) and 10(−1) S·cm(−1) at room temperature within the range of AC frequencies from 1 Hz to 1 MHz. Multimodal taper-tipped fibre microprobes were then fabricated and were characterized. This advanced design could provide promising tools for in vivo electrophysiological experiments that require light delivery through an optical core in addition to neuronal activity recording. Nature Publishing Group 2017-03-03 /pmc/articles/PMC5335562/ /pubmed/28256608 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep43917 Text en Copyright © 2017, The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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title_short Optical and electrical characterizations of multifunctional silver phosphate glass and polymer-based optical fibers
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5335562/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28256608
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep43917
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