Aqueous mercuric ion detection with microsphere optical resonator sensors

AIChE Annual Meeting, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 11914-11921

  Hanumegowda, Niranjan M ^a   White, Ian M ^a   Fan, Xudong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SENSOR SENSITIVITY; SPECTRAL POSITION SHIFTS;

IONS; MERCURY (METAL); OPTICAL SENSORS; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; SILICA; SOLUTIONS; STOICHIOMETRY;

OPTICAL RESONATORS;

EID: 33645647352     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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