Fast detection of hydrogen with nano fiber tapers coated with ultra thin palladium layers

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 5087-5092

  Villatoro, Joel ^a   Monzón Hernández, David ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ÓPTICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CHEMICAL SENSORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FIBER OPTICS; HYDROGEN; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PALLADIUM; ULTRATHIN FILMS;

FIBERS, SINGLE MODE; HYDROGEN SENSORS; PALLADIUM FILMS; SPECTROSCOPY, ABSORPTION;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 22744458317     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.005087     Document Type: Article

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