The phrase "as a sensitive probe" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are describing something that is used to detect or measure subtle changes or signals, often in scientific or technical discussions.
Example: "The device functions as a sensitive probe to detect minute variations in temperature."
Alternatives: "as a delicate sensor" or "as a precise detector".
The biaxial drawing response appears as a sensitive probe of the structural organization.
Thus, this band could be used as a sensitive probe to estimate the conformations of silk fibroin.
This method reveals acoustic phonons, which are physically important to thermal conductance as well as a sensitive probe of graphene's interactions with the underlying substrate.
I am a second year graduate student, currently working with Professor Rachel Bean on cosmological data analysis, concerning possible enhancements of the 2-point-correlation function as a sensitive probe of ΛCDM cosmologies.
So far, Manalis and his co-workers are using it as a sensitive probe that can be placed at the end of a microfluidic channel, for example, to detect the electrical signals of-and hence analyze the DNA flowing out.
However, compared with the 3P1 state chosen here as a sensitive probe, the tensor shift in the clock transition of 87Sr is seven orders of magnitude smaller41, as it originates solely from its nuclear spin I=9/2.
In a typical single-molecule mechanical assay, the molecule of interest is attached to a sensitive probe such as two micron-sized beads held in optical tweezers.
In contrast to its previously described exploration as a PET MPI agent, F-FBnTP is also under development as a "voltage sensitive probe" for apoptosis imaging through detection of membrane potential loss (Table 11).
The benefit of NEXAFS for acrylic paints parallels those observed in other applications of polymer science/coatings, via using the carbon K edge absorption spectra as a surface sensitive probe for identifying organic materials based on the different bonding environments of their carbon atoms [17],[17],[17].
We measured the kinetics of transient H+ concentration changes in the bulk after flash photoexcitation, using pyranine as a pH sensitive probe.
To test this possibility, in situ cross-linking involving position 311 was used as a highly sensitive probe of the conformationally active interfaces between transmembrane helices 8 and 5 upon substrate binding [ 28– 30].
