Ultrasensitive chemical sensors based on whispering gallery modes in a microsphere coated with zeolite

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 33, 2010, Pages 6463-6471

  Lin, Nai ^a   Jiang, Lan ^a   Wang, Sumei ^a   Yuan, Lei ^a,b   Xiao, Hai ^b   Lu, Yongfeng ^c   Tsai, Hailung ^b  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Architectural and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SENSORS; COATINGS; MICROSPHERES; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; ZEOLITES;

APPROXIMATE MODEL; DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION; EXTERNAL SURFACES; OPTICAL MICROSPHERES; PERTURBATION THEORY; SENSOR PERFORMANCE; SENSOR SENSITIVITY; ULTRA SENSITIVES;

WHISPERING GALLERY MODES;

MICROSPHERE; PROTEIN; ZEOLITE;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GENETIC PROCEDURES; OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADSORPTION; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MICROSPHERES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PROTEINS; REFRACTOMETRY; ZEOLITES;

EID: 78649609780     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.006463     Document Type: Article

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