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  1. A Miniaturized, High-Bandwidth Optical Fiber Fabry–Perot Cavity Vibration Sensor Demonstrated up to 800 °C

    Article • IEEE Sensors Journal, April 2025, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  2. Minimization of Measurement Uncertainty in Optical Frequency Domain Reflectometry

    Article • Journal of Lightwave Technology, March 2025, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  3. Glassy carbon formation from pyrolysis of polymeric coatings on fiber-optic sensors

    Article • Materials & Design, March 2025, Elsevier

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  4. Dopant, coating, and grating effects in silica optical fibers under extreme neutron irradiation

    Article • Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, December 2024, Elsevier

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  5. Assessment of the Impact of Realistic Sensor Physics and the Integration of Ex-Core Sensors on Reactor Power Synthesis

    Article • September 2024, Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  6. Quantifying the operational envelope for single-point and distributed acoustic sensors for microreactor applications

    Article • September 2024, Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  7. Evaluation of In-Situ AM Process Monitoring Techniques and Potential for Detecting Process Anomalies and Undesirable Microstructures

    Article • July 2024, Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  8. A simulation study of the ability to detect power distribution perturbations in the texas A&M TRIGA reactor with self-powered neutron detectors

    Article • Progress in Nuclear Energy, July 2024, Elsevier

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  9. Fast Neutron Irradiation of a Multichannel JFET-Based Optical Encoder

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, June 2024, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  10. Distilling Mechanistic Models From Multi-Omics Data

    Article • September 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  11. Enhanced backscatter and unsaturated blue wavelength shifts in F-doped fused silica optical fibers exposed to extreme neutron radiation damage

    Article • Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, September 2023, Elsevier

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  12. Analysis of WIRE-21 SPND and Optical Fiber Sensor Measurements

    Article • August 2023, Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  13. Development of Optical Fiber-Based Sensors for Nuclear Microreactor Structural Health Monitoring

    Article • August 2023, Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  14. Testing of an Optical Fiber--Based Gamma Thermometer in the High Flux Isotope Reactor Gamma Irradiation Facility

    Article • August 2023, Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  15. Towards Realistic and High Fidelity Models for Nuclear Reactor Power Synthesis Simulation with Self-Powered Neutron Detectors

    Article • August 2023, Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  16. WIRE-21 Experiment Irradiation Conditions and In-Situ Data Collection

    Article • April 2023, Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  17. Summary of Methodology for Mitigating Risks Associated with Licensing and Qualifying AM Nuclear Materials

    Article • March 2023, Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  18. Simulating self-powered neutron detector responses to infer burnup-induced power distribution perturbations in next-generation light water reactors

    Article • Progress in Nuclear Energy, November 2022, Elsevier

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  19. Development of a Radiation-Tolerant Front End Digitizer

    Article • September 2022, Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  20. Performance of Microreactor Test Article with Embedded Sensors During Testing in The Single Primary Heat Extraction and Removal Emulator

    Article • September 2022, Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  21. Status Update on the Development of Transducers and Bonding Techniques for Enabling Acoustic Measurements of Damage in Microreactor Components

    Article • September 2022, Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  22. Hybrid method for monitoring large Fabry-Pérot cavity displacements with nanometer precision

    Article • Optics Express, July 2022, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  23. Simulation of natural circulation cartridge loop experiments and application to molten salt reactors

    Article • Nuclear Engineering and Design, June 2022, Elsevier

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  24. Testing and Simulation of an Updated Cartridge Loop Vehicle

    Article • May 2022, Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  25. Functional fiber-optic sensors embedded in stainless steel components using ultrasonic additive manufacturing for distributed temperature and strain measurements

    Article • Additive Manufacturing, April 2022, Elsevier

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  26. Calibration of Distributed Temperature Sensors Using Commercially Available SMF-28 Optical Fiber From 22 °C to 1000 °C

    Article • IEEE Sensors Journal, March 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  27. Wide Bandgap Semiconductors for Extreme Temperature and Radiation Environments

    Article • March 2022, Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  28. Design and Control of a Fueled Molten Salt Cartridge Experiment for the Versatile Test Reactor

    Article • Nuclear Science and Engineering, February 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  29. WIRE-21 Sensor Irradiation Experiment Ready for HFIR Insertion

    Article • February 2022, Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  30. Expanding the range of the resolvable strain from distributed fiber optic sensors using a local adaptive reference approach

    Article • Optics Letters, January 2022, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  31. Graphical Optimization of Spectral Shift Reconstructions for Optical Backscatter Reflectometry

    Article • Sensors, September 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  32. Characterization of Embedded Sensors in Stainless Steel Test Articles and Design/Planning for MAGNET Testing

    Article • July 2021, Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  33. In-Core Neutron Flux, Temperature, and Pressure Instrumentation for the WIRE-21 Experiment in the High Flux Isotope Reactor

    Article • January 2021, American Nuclear Society (ANS)

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  34. The Transient Thermal Response of a Pressure-Driven Fabry-Pérot Cavity

    Article • January 2021, American Nuclear Society (ANS)

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  35. An Adaptive Reference Scheme to Extend the Functional Range of Optical Backscatter Reflectometry in Extreme Environments

    Article • IEEE Sensors Journal, January 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  36. Pressure-Driven Fiber-Optic Sensor for Online Corrosion Monitoring

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, January 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  37. Wireless Instrumented RB Experiment Preliminary Design and Analysis

    Article • December 2020, Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  38. Single-phase, natural circulation annular flow measurements for cartridge loop irradiation experiments

    Article • Nuclear Engineering and Design, December 2020, Elsevier

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  39. Metal-embedded fiber optic sensor packaging and signal demodulation scheme towards high-frequency dynamic measurements in harsh environments

    Article • Sensors and Actuators A Physical, September 2020, Elsevier

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  40. Transient Testing of Natural Circulation Flow in Cartridge Experiments

    Article • January 2020, American Nuclear Society (ANS)

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  41. Compensation Scheme for Radiation-Induced Attenuation in Optical Fibers Interrogated Using Low-Coherence Interferometry

    Article • January 2020, American Nuclear Society (ANS)

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  42. Characterization of sequentially-staged cancer cells using electrorotation

    Article • PLOS One, September 2019, PLOS

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  43. Discontinuous Galerkin Model of Cellular Electroporation

    Article • July 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  44. Characterization of Cell Membrane Permeability In Vitro Part II: Computational Model of Electroporation-Mediated Membrane Transport*

    Article • Technology in Cancer Research & Treatment, January 2018, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  45. Characterization of Cell Membrane Permeability In Vitro Part I: Transport Behavior Induced by Single-Pulse Electric Fields*

    Article • Technology in Cancer Research & Treatment, January 2018, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  46. A feasibility study for enrichment of highly aggressive cancer subpopulations by their biophysical properties via dielectrophoresis enhanced with synergistic fluid flow

    Article • Electrophoresis, May 2017, Wiley

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  47. Use of bio-loggers to characterize red fox behavior with implications for studies of magnetic alignment responses in free-roaming animals

    Article • Animal Biotelemetry, November 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  48. Quantification of cell membrane permeability induced by monopolar and high-frequency bipolar bursts of electrical pulses

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, November 2016, Elsevier

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  49. Modeling of Transmembrane Potential in Realistic Multicellular Structures before Electroporation

    Article • Biophysical Journal, November 2016, Elsevier

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  50. Mitigation of impedance changes due to electroporation therapy using bursts of high-frequency bipolar pulses

    Article • BioMedical Engineering OnLine, January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney

  51. GLP-1R Agonism Enhances Adjustable Gastric Banding in Diet-Induced Obese Rats

    Article • Diabetes, June 2013, American Diabetes Association

    Dr. Daniel C. Sweeney