A hydrogen curing effect on surface plasmon resonance fiber optic hydrogen sensors using an annealed Au/Ta2O5/Pd multi-layers film

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 18556-18563

  Hosoki, Ai ^a   Nishiyama, Michiko ^a   Igawa, Hirotaka ^b   Seki, Atsushi ^a   Watanabe, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a SOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; HYDROGEN; PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TANTALUM OXIDES; CURING; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FIBER OPTICS;

ANNEALING TEMPERATURES; CURING PROCESS; FIBER-OPTIC HYDROGEN SENSORS; MOST LIKELY; SENSOR SENSITIVITY; NANO SIZED;

CURING; GOLD;

EID: 84905376008     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.018556     Document Type: Article

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