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The change in SRI causes an unsynchronized change of the cladding modes and the Bragg peak in the TFBG transmission spectrum, thereby eliminating the cross-sensitivity due to membrane expansion and is able to simultaneously monitor the presence of cracks in the pipe, as well as the hydrogen leakage. By subtracting the wavelength shift caused by fiber expansion, the change of SRI, i.e., the information from the H2 level, can be separately obtained. The drifted wavelength is measured for the H2 concentration below the hydrogen explosion limit between 1% and 4%. The chemical-based coating has the advantages of a low cost, a simple operation, and being suitable for coating on long fiber structures. The proposed sensor is able to detect the H2 signal in 5 min at a 1% H2 concentration. The proposed sensor is proved to be able to monitor the hydrogen level without the cross-sensitivity of temperature variation and expansion strains, so could be a good candidate for security applications in industry.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s18124478","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,12,18]],"date-time":"2018-12-18T05:47:45Z","timestamp":1545112065000},"page":"4478","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":29,"title":["Tilted Fiber Bragg Grating Sensor Using Chemical Plating of a Palladium Membrane for the Detection of Hydrogen Leakage"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"18","author":[{"given":"Jiachen","family":"Yu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Optoelectronic Engineering and Instrumentation Science, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116023, China"}]},{"given":"Zhenlin","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Optoelectronic Engineering and Instrumentation Science, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116023, China"}]},{"given":"Xin","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, School of Engineering, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AT, UK"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3592-8979","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xiuyou","family":"Han","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Optoelectronic Engineering and Instrumentation Science, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116023, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3114-9479","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mingshan","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Optoelectronic Engineering and Instrumentation Science, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116023, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,12,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"158","DOI":"10.1016\/S0925-4005(99)00177-X","article-title":"Highly sensitive hydrogen sensors using palladium coated fiber optics with exposed cores and evanescent field interactions","volume":"56","author":"Massood","year":"1999","journal-title":"Sens. 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