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Reviewer Recommendation and Comments for Manuscript Number SNB-D-15-01382

Measurement of solution concentration using high sensitivity total-internal-reflection heterodyne
interferometer
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Dedi Irawan, Ph.D (Reviewer 1)

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Overall Manuscript Rating (1-100): 60

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Reviewer Blind Comments to Author:

This article is recommended to be published in Journal of Sensors and Actuators B by completing the following
questions and highlights.
The following are list of questions and suggestion for the author
1.
What means by "By specifying the relation curve of the phase difference "versus the concentration c, the
concentration c can thus be estimated with the measurement of the phase difference" (at the end of section 2.1, page
8). Please describes more details, if possible describe it by using mathematical expression.
2.
I did not find the description of a sentence "This method has advantages of high stability and high resolution
because of common-path configuration and heterodyne phase measurement" in the results and conclusion. "High
stability and high resolution" based on what? or it should be compare with other results with difference methods.
3.
Please re-check English structure and grammatical and writing style i.e "In addition to using a small TIR prism
and yielding a high sensitivity" (to infinitive : to + V).
4.
Avoid long paragraph by remembering that one has a main sentence (topic sentence) and some supporting
sentence.
5.
Is it possible to compare experimental result and theoretical model of phase difference as function of solution
concentration?
Reviewer Confidential Comments to Editor:
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Is there a financial or other conflict of interest between your work and that of the authors?

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