Chemical Sensing Sensitivity of Long-Period Grating Sensor Enhanced by Colloidal Gold Nanoparticles.docVIP

Sensors 2008, 8, 171-184 sensors ISSN 1424-8220 ? 2008 by MDPI /sensors Full Research Paper Chemical Sensing Sensitivity of Long-Period Grating Sensor Enhanced by Colloidal Gold Nanoparticles Jaw-Luen Tang 1,* and Jien-Neng Wang 2 1 Department of Physics, National Chung Cheng University, 168 University Road, Chia-Yi 621, Taiwan; Tel.: +886-5-272-0586; Fax +886-5-272-0587; E-mail: phyjlt@.tw. 2 Department of Construction Engineering, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Yun-Lin 640, Taiwan; Tel.: +886-5-534-2601-4723, Fax +886-5-531-2049; E-mail: wangjn@.tw * Author to whom