Fibre optic ammonia sensing employing novel near infrared dyes

Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical

Volumn 51, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 359-367

  Malins, Chris ^a   Landl, Marian ^b,c   Šimon, Peter ^b,c   MacCraith, Brian D ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^b Slovak Technical Univerity   (Slovakia)

^c SLOVAK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Ammonia; Fibre optic sensors; Near infrared dyes

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CHEMICAL SENSORS; DYES; INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION;

LIGAND EXCHANGE; NEAR INFRARED DYES;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

EID: 0032130956     PISSN: 09254005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4005(98)00223-8     Document Type: Article

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