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Device for the detection of short trace gas pulses

Technisches Messen, ISSN: 2196-7113, Vol: 85, Issue: 7-8, Page: 496-503
2018
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  • Citations
    12
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      12
  • Captures
    11

Article Description

A device for detection of short gas pulses at very low concentrations is presented. The approach is based on a special temperature modulation technique enabling a differential surface reduction (DSR) measurement of a metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) gas sensor. With this method, the sensor surface is highly covered with oxidized surface states at high temperature (e. g. 400 °C) initially. The temperature is then reduced abruptly to, e. g., 100 °C resulting in a state with strong excess of negative surface charge. Reactions of these surface charges with reducing gases are prevailing and lead to very high sensitivity. For the measurement a dedicated detector (electronics and fluidic system) is presented. The electronics allows a high-resolution conductance measurement of the sensitive layer and accurate temperature control. The fluidic system is examined in terms of peak shape and optimal sensor response via FEM simulations.

Bibliographic Details

Tobias Baur; Caroline Schultealbert; Andreas Schütze; Tilman Sauerwald

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Physics and Astronomy; Engineering

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