Ultra-portable explosives sensor based on a CMOS fluorescence lifetime analysis micro-system

AIP Advances

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Wang, Yue ^a   Rae, Bruce R ^b   Henderson, Robert K ^b   Gong, Zheng ^c   McKendry, Jonathan ^c   Gu, Erdan ^c   Dawson, Martin D ^c   Turnbull, Graham A ^a   Samuel, Ifor D W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; EXPLOSIVES; FLUORESCENCE; ORGANIC-INORGANIC MATERIALS; PARTICLE BEAMS;

CHEMOSENSOR; EXPLOSIVE VAPORS; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIME ANALYSIS; GREEN LIGHT; ORGANIC-INORGANIC HYBRID; TIME-CORRELATED SINGLE-PHOTON COUNTING; TIME-RESOLVED; TIME-RESOLVED FLUORESCENCE;

EXPLOSIVES DETECTION;

EID: 80053506003     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21583226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3624456     Document Type: Article

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