Long-term stability of capped and buffered palladium-nickel thin films and nanostructures for plasmonic hydrogen sensing applications

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 194-204

  Strohfeldt, Nikolai ^a   Tittl, Andreas ^a   Giessen, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING EFFECTS; HYDROGEN DETECTOR; HYDROGEN-SENSING; LONG TERM STABILITY; MATERIAL COMBINATION; MATERIAL SYSTEMS; PALLADIUM-NICKEL; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; SENSOR MATERIALS; THIN LAYERS;

CALCIUM FLUORIDE; NANOSTRUCTURES; NICKEL ALLOYS; OPTIMIZATION; PLASMONS; SENSORS;

HYDROGEN;

EID: 84874124232     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.3.000194     Document Type: Article

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