Title: Biosensors and Bioelectronics: Current Trends to Future Applications

Biography:

Dr Yuvaraja Visagathilagar has over 26+ years of extensive expertise and experience in academia, research and industry. He graduated with Bachelor of Engineering in Communication Engineering and Doctorate in Engineering (with a highly prestigious scholarship from the Australian Government) in 1996 and 2003 respectively from RMIT University, Melbourne Australia. His dissertation was in “Narrow-band Optical Modulator on Lithium Niobate” for telecommunication applications but it can be applied for other transceivers applications.

Abstract

For many decades, sensing has been a key global application for many commercial and defence applications [1]. Early sensing technologies has been using either electrical (or RF/Microwave) technologies however, in recent global research and development has focused on smart optical sensing technologies. Predominantly these technologies provide: (a) compact and robust (b) immunity to electromagnetic interference; (c) use of low cost telecommunication fibre cables; (d) long distance; and (e) not susceptible to harsh environment [1, 2] (f) ease of manufacture and other factors. The optical sensing technologies have been applied for leak detection, vibration/perimeter detection and health monitoring due to its high sensitivity and localisation with sub-metre spatial resolution. In traditional optical sensing technologies have been used in monitoring of large-scale perimeter and pipeline monitoring [3] due to the cost of the technology.