Optical Gas Sensor Fabrication Based on Porphyrin-Anchored Electrostatic Self-Assembly onto Tapered Optical Fibers

Analytical Letters

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1297-1309

  Jarzebinska, Renata ^a   Korposh, Sergiy ^b   James, Stephen ^a   Batty, William ^a   Tatam, Ralph ^a   Lee, Seung Woo ^b  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KITAKYUSHU   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ammonia gas; Electrostatic self assembly process; Porphyrin; Tapered optical fiberfiber gas sensors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863574706     PISSN: 00032719     EISSN: 1532236X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00032719.2012.673097     Document Type: Article

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