Highly sensitive detection of naphthalene in solvent vapor using a functionalized PBG refractive index sensor

Sensors

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 2018-2025

  Girschikofsky, Maiko ^a   Rosenberger, Manuel ^a   Belle, Stefan ^a   Brutschy, Malte ^b   Waldvogel, Siegfried R ^b   Hellmann, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES ASCHAFFENBURG   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aromatic hydrocarbons; Bragg grating; Cyclodextrin; Gas detection; Optical sensor

Indexed keywords

CYCLODEXTRIN; NAPHTHALENE; NAPHTHALENE DERIVATIVE; SOLVENT;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GAS; INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; TRANSDUCER;

CYCLODEXTRINS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GASES; NAPHTHALENES; REFRACTOMETRY; SOLVENTS; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84857554032     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s120202018     Document Type: Article

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