Design and Fabrication an optical sensor devices base on graphene oxide

Mustafa  Abdulirees Jebur; Seyed   Sadra Kashef; Mc  Amirani; M.H.   Mezher

doi:10.56294/dm2025875

Authors

Mustafa Abdulirees Jebur Computer Engineering Department / Imam Al-Kadhum College (IKC), Al- Diwaniyah, Iraq Author https://orcid.org/0009-0006-5066-8545
Seyed Sadra Kashef Urmia University, The Department of Electrical and computer engineering, Urmia, Iran Author https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1374-6915
Mc Amirani Urmia University, The Department of Electrical and computer engineering, Urmia, Iran Author https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5179-9831
M.H. Mezher https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6174-6960 Author https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6174-6960

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.56294/dm2025875

Keywords:

graphene oxide, nanolayers, optical sensor, transformer oil, moisture detection, d-shaped fiber

Abstract

Contamination of oil, particularly by dissolved water, is a very common problem in the failure of step-down transformers used by electricity providers as this degrades the insulating property of the oil. In this paper, the use of D-shaped optical fibers functionalized with Graphene Oxide is presented to detect the water content in transformer oil. The synthesis of graphene oxide was achieved by a modified version of Hummer's method. Subsequently, the drop-casting process was used to apply the graphene oxide onto the D-shaped fibre. The coating thickness attained in the samples was around 200 nm. Side polishing in a single-mode fiber engages an evanescent field that increases its sensitivity as an optical sensor. A few layers of graphene oxide coating on D-fiber exhibit a quick response time and high sensitivity to moisture content present in transformer oil, which proves to be a hopeful solution in real-time monitoring and maintenance of transformer insulation systems. It manifested that the experimental results had a high sensitivity to different water contents in transformer oil for the D-shaped fiber coated with GO. The GO-coated fibers exhibited a sensitivity of 0.5677 dB/ppm, which is relatively high compared with the sensitivity in the case of uncoated D-shaped fibers.

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