Refractive index change due to volume-phase transition in polyacrylamide gel nanospheres for optoelectronics and bio-photonics

Applied Physics Express

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Garner, Brett W ^a   Cai, Tong ^a   Ghosh, Santaneel ^a   Hu, Zhibing ^a   Neogi, Arup ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIO PHOTONICS; GEL NETWORKS; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; LOW CRITICAL SOLUTION TEMPERATURES; POLY(N-ISOPROPYL ACRYLAMIDE) (PNIPAM); POLYACRYLAMIDE GELS; POLYMER NETWORKS; REFRACTIVE INDEX CHANGES; SCATTERING PROPERTY; VOLUME CONTRACTION; VOLUME PHASE TRANSITION;

ACRYLIC MONOMERS; AMIDES; GELATION; GELS; HYDROGELS; LIGHT REFRACTION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY; WATER CONTENT;

NANOSPHERES;

EID: 66949155284     PISSN: 18820778     EISSN: 18820786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/APEX.2.057001     Document Type: Article

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