A fibre optic humidity sensor based on a long-period fibre grating coated with a thin film of SiO2 nanospheres

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Viegas, D ^a,b   Goicoechea, J ^c   Corres, J M ^c   Santos, J L ^a,b   Ferreira, L A ^a   Arajo, F M ^a   Matias, I 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 fibre grating; Nanospheres

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTROSTATICS; FIBERS; HUMIDITY SENSORS; NANOSPHERES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SELF ASSEMBLY;

ELECTROSTATIC SELF ASSEMBLY; HUMIDITY SENSITIVITY; LONG-PERIOD FIBRE GRATINGS; RELATIVE HUMIDITY RANGE; RESONANCE WAVELENGTHS; SENSING CONFIGURATION; SILICA NANOSPHERES; THERMAL DEPENDENCES;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 63849096934     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: 13616501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/20/3/034002     Document Type: Article

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