title: Sol-Gel Thin Films for Plasmonic Gas Sensors.
abstract: Plasmonic gas sensors are optical sensors that use localized surface plasmons or extended surface plasmons as transducing platform. Surface plasmons are very sensitive to dielectric variations of the environment or to electron exchange, and these effects have been exploited for the realization of sensitive gas sensors. In this paper, we review our research work of the last few years on the synthesis and the gas sensing properties of sol-gel based nanomaterials for plasmonic sensors.
authors.affiliation: CSIRO Manufacturing Flagship, Bayview Ave, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia. enrico.dellagaspera@csiro.au.
authors.forename: Enrico
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Della Gaspera
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale ,Universita' di Padova, Via Marzolo 9, Padova 35131, Italy. alex.martucci@unipd.it.
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Martucci
keywords: Ag; Au; NiO; TiO2; ZnO; metal oxide; nanoparticles; optical sensors; surface plasmon resonance