Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: We demonstrated an optically-active antireflection, light absorbing, optical coating as a hydrogen gas sensor. The optical coating consists of an ultrathin 20 nm thick palladium film on a 60 nm thick germanium layer. The ultrathin thickness of the Pd film (20 nm) mitigates mechanical deformation and leads to robust operation. The measurable quantities of the sensors are the shift in the reflection minimum and the change in the full width at half maximum of the reflection spectrum as a function of hydrogen gas concentration. At a hydrogen gas concentration of 4%, the reflection minimum shifted by ∼46 nm and the FWHM increased by ∼228 nm. The sensor showed excellent sensitivity, demonstrating a 6.5 nm wavelength shift for 0.7% hydrogen concentration, which is a significant improvement over other nanophotonic hydrogen sensing methods. Although the sensor’s response showed hysteresis after cycling hydrogen exposure, the sensor is robust and showed no deterioration in its optical response after hydrogen deintercalation.
Authors: Mohamed ElKabbash, Kandammathe Valiyaveedu Sreekanth, Arwa Fraiwan, Jonathan Cole, Yunus Alapan, Theodore Letsou, Nathaniel Hoffman, Chunlei Guo, R Mohan Sankaran, Umut A Gurkan, Michael Hinczewski, Giuseppe Strangi
Language: English
Subfield: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Awards: Instrument Development: Multiplex Sensory Interfaces Between Photonic Nanostructures and Thin Film Ionic Liquids, Synthesis of Doped, Plasmonic Nanodiamonds from Vapor Precursors by Plasma-based Strategies, G6538430511, G6671297155, G6711204355, CAREER: Biomechanics of Red Blood Cell Adhesion and Deformability
OpenAlex ID: W3084566345