Lab-on-Fiber Technology

This book focuses on a research field that is rapidly emerging as one of the most promising ones for the global optics and photonics community: the “lab-on-fiber” technology. Inspired by the well-established "lab on-a-chip" concept, this new technology es

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Andrea Cusano Marco Consales Alessio Crescitelli Armando Ricciardi Editors

Lab-on-Fiber Technology

Springer Series in Surface Sciences Volume 56

Series editors Gerhard Ertl, Berlin, Germany Hans Lüth, Aachen, Germany Douglas L. Mills, Irvine, USA

For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/409

This series covers the whole spectrum of surface sciences, including structure and dynamics of clean and adsorbate-covered surfaces, thin films, basic surface effects, analytical methods and also the physics and chemistry of interfaces. Written by leading researchers in the field, the books are intended primarily for researchers in academia and industry and for graduate students.

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Editors Andrea Cusano Marco Consales Alessio Crescitelli Armando Ricciardi Department of Engineering University of Sannio Benevento Italy

ISSN 0931-5195 ISBN 978-3-319-06997-5 ISBN 978-3-319-06998-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-06998-2 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London

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Foreword

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