Miniature infrared gas sensors using photonic crystals

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6480, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Lambrecht, A ^a   Hartwig, S ^a   Schweizer, S L ^b,c   Wehrspohn, R B ^b,c  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICAL MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES IPM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gas sensors; Infrared; Macroporous silicon; Photonic crystals

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED RADIATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; POROUS SILICON;

MACROPOROUS SILICON; MULTIREFLECTION CELLS;

CHEMICAL SENSORS;

EID: 34248682422     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.700792     Document Type: Conference Paper

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