Optical gas sensing properties of nanoporous Nb2O5 films

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 4751-4758

  Ab Kadir, Rosmalini ^a,c   Rani, Rozina Abdul ^a   Alsaif, Manal M Y A ^a   Ou, Jian Zhen ^a   Wlodarski, Wojtek ^a   O'Mullane, Anthony P ^b   Kalantar Zadeh, Kourosh ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

anodization; gas sensing; hydrogen; nanoporous; niobium oxide (Nb2O5); optical response

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL DETECTION; GAS ADSORPTION; GAS DETECTORS; GAS SENSING ELECTRODES; GASES; HYDROGEN; LIGHT MODULATION; NIOBIUM OXIDE;

ACTIVE SURFACE AREA; ANODIZATIONS; ELECTROCHROMIC MATERIALS; GAS SENSING; HIGH TEMPERATURE ANODIZATION; INTERCALATION PROCESS; NANO-POROUS; OPTICAL RESPONSE;

OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 84924245397     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am508463g     Document Type: Article

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