Spectrometric determination of the refractive index of optical wave guiding materials used in lab-on-a-chip applications

Applied Spectroscopy

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 322-329

  Cardenas Valencia, Andres M ^a   Dlutowski, Jay ^a   Fries, David ^a   Langebrake, Larry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Glasses; Instrumental methods; Optical materials; Plastics; Refractive index; Visible spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

INSTRUMENTAL METHODS; OPTICAL WAVE GUIDING MATERIALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX UNITS (RIU); VISIBLE SPECTROSCOPY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLASS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PLASTICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

ARTICLE; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; MICROCHIP ANALYSIS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROCHIP ANALYTICAL PROCEDURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33646186321     PISSN: 00037028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1366/000370206776342526     Document Type: Article

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