Highly sensitive hydrogen sensors using palladium coated fiber optics with exposed cores and evanescent field interactions

Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 158-163

  Tabib Azar, Massood ^a   Sutapun, Boonsong ^a   Petrick, Rose ^a   Kazemi, Alex ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTICS; HYDROGEN; LEAK DETECTION; OPTICAL FILMS; PALLADIUM; ROCKETS;

EVANESCENT FIELD INTERACTION; HYDROGEN SENSOR;

FIBER OPTIC CHEMICAL SENSORS;

EID: 0032625849     PISSN: 09254005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4005(99)00177-X     Document Type: Article

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