Absorbance Based Light Emitting Diode Optical Sensors and Sensing Devices.docVIP

Sensors 2008, 8, 2453-2479 sensors ISSN 1424-8220 ? 2008 by MDPI /sensors Review Absorbance Based Light Emitting Diode Optical Sensors and Sensing Devices Martina O’Toole and Dermot Diamond * Adaptive Sensors Group, National Centre for Sensor Research, School of Chemical Sciences, Dublin City University, Dublin 9; E-mails: martina.otoole@dcu.ie; dermot.diamond@dcu.ie * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Received: 11 October 2007 / Accepted: 31 March 2008 / Published: 7 April 2008 Abstract: The ever increasing demand for in situ monitoring of health, envi