On the sensitivity of generic porous optical sensors

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 2752-2758

  Mackay, Tom G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PERMITTIVITY;

BRUGGEMAN FORMALISM; DIELECTRIC FLUID; HIGH SENSITIVITY; HOMOGENIZATION APPROACH; HOMOGENIZED COMPOSITES; MAXIMUM SENSITIVITY; RELATIVE PERMITTIVITY; SPHEROIDAL SHAPES;

POROUS MATERIALS;

EID: 84861374495     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.002752     Document Type: Article

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