Sensitivity gains in chemosensing by optical and structural modulation of ordered assembly arrays of zno nanorods

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 4293-4299

  Zhu, Defeng ^a   He, Qingguo ^a   Chen, Qing ^a   Fu, Yanyan ^a   He, Chao ^a,b   Shi, Liqi ^a,b   Meng, Xin ^a,b   Deng, Changmin ^a,b   Cao, Huimin ^a   Cheng, Jiangong ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MICROSYSTEM AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

AFAs; assembly; evanescent wave; fluorescence; sensor; vapor; ZnO nanorod

Indexed keywords

AFAS; AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSIONS; CHEMOSENSING; EVANESCENT COUPLING; EVANESCENT EXCITATION; EVANESCENT TRANSMISSION; EVANESCENT WAVE; FACILE METHOD; FLUORESCENCE INTENSITIES; FLUORESCENCE SENSORS; FULL-LOAD; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; HYDROTHERMALLY; NANO-DEVICES; NANOROD ASSEMBLY; OPTIC SENSOR; OPTICAL SUBSTRATES; ORGANICS; QUENCHING RATE; REFERENCE SENSORS; RIGID MATERIAL; SECONDARY STRUCTURES; SENSING MATERIAL; SINGLE FIBER; STRUCTURAL MODULATIONS; SURFACE-TO-VOLUME RATIO; THEORETICAL RESEARCH; TOXIC VAPORS; ULTRASENSITIVE; ZNO NANOROD;

COATED MATERIALS; FLUORESCENCE; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SENSORS; VAPORS; ZINC OXIDE;

NANORODS;

NANOMATERIAL; NANOTUBE; POLYMER; ZINC OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; GENETIC PROCEDURES; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; POLYMERS; ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 79959799819     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn103211d     Document Type: Article

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