Sensitivity improvement of a humidity sensor based on silica nanospheres on a long-period fiber grating

Sensors

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 519-527

  Viegas, Diana ^a,b   Goicoechea, Javier ^c   Santos, José Luís ^a,b   Araújo, Francisco Moita ^b   Ferreira, Luís Alberto ^b   Arregui, Francisco J ^c   Matias, Ignacio R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Electrostatic self assembly; Humidity sensor; Long period fiber grating; Nanospheres

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; ELECTROSTATIC SELF ASSEMBLY; FIBER CLADDINGS; HUMIDITY SENSITIVE; LONG PERIOD FIBER GRATING; SENSITIVITY IMPROVEMENTS; SILICA NANOSPHERES; WAVELENGTH SHIFT;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTROSTATICS; HUMIDITY SENSORS; NANOSPHERES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SELF ASSEMBLY;

FIBERS;

EID: 59249104987     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s90100519     Document Type: Article

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