Pulsed laser deposited ZnO film on side-polished fiber as a gas sensing element

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 2481-2485

  Dikovska, Anna Og ^a   Atanasov, Petar A ^a   Stoyanchov, Toshko R ^a   Andreev, Andrey T ^b   Karakoleva, Elka I ^b   Zafirova, Blagovesta S ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONICS   (Bulgaria)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SENSORS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; SURFACE MORPHOLOGY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; ZINC OXIDE;

DEPOSITION PROCESS; FIBER SURFACE; GAS SENSING ELEMENTS; METAL OXIDE WAVEGUIDES;

THIN FILMS;

BUTANE; ZINC OXIDE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FIBER OPTICS; GAS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER;

BUTANES; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; GASES; LASERS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS; ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 34250375636     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.002481     Document Type: Article

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