Titanium dioxide nanoparticle based optical fiber humidity sensor with linear response and enhanced sensitivity

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2164-2171

  Aneesh, R ^a   Khijwania, Sunil K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMIDITY SENSORS; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL FIBERS; THIN FILMS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

DESIGN CONFIGURATIONS; ENHANCED SENSITIVITY; EVANESCENT WAVE ABSORPTION; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; NANOSTRUCTURED THIN FILM; OPTIMIZED SENSORS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE NANOPARTICLES; WIDE DYNAMIC RANGE;

FIBERS;

GLASS FIBER; METAL NANOPARTICLE; NANOMATERIAL; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMIDITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMIDITY; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TITANIUM;

EID: 84860137851     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.002164     Document Type: Article

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