Polycrystalline Diamond Thin-Film Waveguides for Mid-Infrared Evanescent Field Sensors

Julian Haas1,2, Ernesto Vargas Catalán2, Pierre Piron2

  • 1Institute of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, Ulm University, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89081 Ulm, Germany.

ACS Omega
|August 29, 2019
PubMed

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