A porous silicon-based Bragg grating waveguide sensor for chemical monitoring

Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical

Volumn 139, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 39-43

  Rea, Ilaria ^a,b   Iodice, Mario ^a   Coppola, Giuseppe ^a   Rendina, Ivo ^a   Marino, Antigone ^b   De Stefano, Luca ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bragg grating waveguide; Optical sensor; Porous silicon

Indexed keywords

BRAGG GRATING WAVEGUIDE; CHEMICAL MONITORING; CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; HIGH-ORDER RESONANCES; LIMITS OF DETECTIONS; NEAR-INFRARED WAVELENGTHS; TRANSMISSION SPECTRUMS;

BRAGG GRATINGS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL SENSORS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; WAVEGUIDES;

POROUS SILICON;

EID: 65649125335     PISSN: 09254005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2008.08.035     Document Type: Article

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