Optical humidity sensing and ultrasound effect for mesoporous silicon one-dimensional photonic crystals

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 137-141

  Kolobov, I G ^a   Euler, William B ^a   Levitsky, I A ^a,b  

^a University of Rhode Island   (United States)

^b Emitech Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMIDITY SENSORS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; ULTRASONICS;

MESOPOROUS SILICON; MESOPOROUS SILICON (PSI); MESOPOROUS STRUCTURES; ONE DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; OPTICAL GAS SENSORS; OPTICAL HUMIDITY SENSING; OPTICAL INTERCONNECT; SPECTRAL POSITION;

MESOPOROUS MATERIALS;

NANOMATERIAL; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; HUMIDITY; PHOTON; POROSITY; ULTRASOUND;

CRYSTALLIZATION; HUMIDITY; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHOTONS; POROSITY; SILICON; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 75449093587     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.000137     Document Type: Article

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