The influence of physical or chemical factors such as temperature
stress and pH value on the fluorescence spectrum of organic dye rhodamine B (RhB) was researched experimentally. An RhB/H610-resin composite and aqueous solutions of RhB were excited under a diode laser with a wavelength of 405 nm. Then
the fluorescence spectra were obtained. The peak shift and the newly proposed barycenter shift of the emission band were employed to characterize the effect of the environmental factors on the band location. The sensing functions of waveband barycenter λ
B
with temperature
stress and pH value were respectively fitted linearly. The result shows that the barycenter method can effectively eliminate the random noise which mainly originated from the fluctuation of fluorescence intensity and light detector. Hence a finer precision was achieved in comparison with the peak shift method. The relative sensitivities of the barycentric method to the temperature
compressive stress and pH value are 0.026%/℃
0.09%/MPa and 0.34% respectively. Taking the advantages of the high fluorescence efficiency and biological histocompatibility of RhB
the fluorescent sensing with RhB is a promising candidate for characterization of biological samples. Particularly
it is suitable for applications in the real-time monitoring of microwave treatment.
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