Recent progress in optical chemical sensors

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 16522-16556

  Qazi, Hummad Habib ^a   Bin Mohammad, Abu Bakar ^a   Akram, Muhammad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Chemo optical sensor; Fiber optic chemical sensors; Integrated optical sensors; Optical chemical sensors

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED OPTICAL SENSORS; OPTICAL CHEMICAL SENSORS; RECENT PROGRESS; REVIEW PAPERS; WORKING PRINCIPLES;

FIBER OPTIC CHEMICAL SENSORS;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

FIBER OPTICS; GENETIC PROCEDURES; HUMAN; OPTICS; REVIEW;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; HUMANS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS;

EID: 84871703746     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s121216522     Document Type: Review

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