Pillar-array based optical sensor

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 5420-5425

  Xu, Tao ^a   Zhu, Ning ^b,c   Xu, Michelle Y C ^a   Wosinski, Lech ^b,c   Stewart Aitchison, J ^a   Ruda, H E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b JORCEP   (China)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; LIGHT REFRACTION; ORGANIC POLYMERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS;

MATERIAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL FLUID; OPTICAL MICROCAVITIES; PILLAR ARRAYS; QUALITY FACTORS; REFRACTIVE INDEX CHANGES; RESONANCE PEAK; SENSING APPLICATIONS; TRANSMISSION MEASUREMENTS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; TRANSDUCER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; REFRACTOMETRY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 77949591738     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.005420     Document Type: Article

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