TY - CHAP A1 - Mirmohseni, Abdolreza A1 - Rostamizadeh, Kobra T1 - Quartz crystal nanobalance in conjunction with principal component analysis for identification of volatile organic compounds N2 - Quartz crystal nanobalance (QCN) sensors are considered as powerful masssensitive sensors to determine materials in the sub-nanogram level. In this study, a single piezoelectric quartz crystal nanobalance modified with polystyrene was employed to detect benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene (BTEX compounds). The frequency shift of the QCN sensor was found to be linear against the BTEX compound concentrations in the range about 1-45 mg l-1. The correlation coefficients for benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene were 0.991, 0.9977, 0.9946 and 0.9971, respectively. The principal component analysis was also utilized to process the frequency response data of the single piezoelectric crystal at different times, considering to the different adsorption-desorption dynamics of BTEX compounds. Using principal component analysis, it was found that over 90% of the data variance could still be explained by use of two principal components (PC1 and PC2). Subsequently, the successful identification of benzene and toluene was possible through the principal component analysis of the transient responses of the polystyrene modified QCN sensor. The results showed that the polystyrene-modified QCN had favorable identification and quantification performances for the BTEX compounds. KW - Biosensor KW - Quartz crystal nanobalance (QCN) KW - BTEX compounds KW - principal component Y1 - 2006 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:a96-opus-1434 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Wagner, Thorsten A1 - Kohl, Claus-Dieter A1 - Fröba, Michael A1 - Tiemann, Michael T1 - Gas sensing properties of ordered mesoporous SnO2 N2 - We report on the synthesis and CO gas-sensing properties of mesoporous tin(IV) oxides (SnO2). For the synthesis cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTABr) was used as a structure-directing agent; the resulting SnO2 powders were applied as films to commercially available sensor substrates by drop coating. Nitrogen physisorption shows specific surface areas up to 160 m2·g-1 and mean pore diameters of about 4 nm, as verified by TEM. The film conductance was measured in dependence on the CO concentration in humid synthetic air at a constant temperature of 300 °C. The sensors show a high sensitivity at low CO concentrations and turn out to be largely insensitive towards changes in the relative humidity. We compare the materials with commercially available SnO2-based sensors. KW - Biosensor KW - Tin oxide KW - sensing properties KW - CO KW - humidity Y1 - 2006 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:a96-opus-1422 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Näther, Niko A1 - Juárez, Leon M. A1 - Emmerich, Rüdiger A1 - Berger, Jörg A1 - Friedrich, Peter A1 - Schöning, Michael Josef T1 - Detection of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) at exposed temperatures for industrial processes N2 - An H2O2 sensor for the application in industrial sterilisation processes has been developed. Therefore, automated sterilisation equipment at laboratory scale has been constructed using parts from industrial sterilisation facilities. In addition, a software tool has been developed for the control of the sterilisation equipment at laboratory scale. First measurements with the developed sensor set-up as part of the sterilisation equipment have been performed and the sensor has been physically characterised by optical microscopy and SEM. KW - Biosensor KW - Gas sensor KW - hydrogen peroxide KW - sterilisation KW - catalytic decomposition Y1 - 2006 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:a96-opus-1418 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Koplin, Tobias J. A1 - Siemons, Maike A1 - Océn-Valéntin, César A1 - Sanders, Daniel A1 - Simon, Ulrich T1 - Workflow for high throughput screening of gas sensing materials N2 - The workflow of a high throughput screening setup for the rapid identification of new and improved sensor materials is presented. The polyol method was applied to prepare nanoparticular metal oxides as base materials, which were functionalised by surface doping. Using multi-electrode substrates and high throughput impedance spectroscopy (HT-IS) a wide range of materials could be screened in a short time. Applying HT-IS in search of new selective gas sensing materials a NO2-tolerant NO sensing material with reduced sensitivities towards other test gases was identified based on iridium doped zinc oxide. Analogous behaviour was observed for iridium doped indium oxide. KW - Biosensor KW - High throughput experimentation KW - gas sensor KW - metal oxide KW - doping KW - impedance spectroscopy KW - nitrogen oxides Y1 - 2006 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:a96-opus-1407 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Sakthivel, Mariappan A1 - Weppner, Werner T1 - Response behaviour of a hydrogen sensor based on ionic conducting polymer-metal interfaces prepared by the chemical reduction method N2 - A solid-state amperometric hydrogen sensor based on a protonated Nafion membrane and catalytic active electrode operating at room temperature was fabricated and tested. Ionic conducting polymer-metal electrode interfaces were prepared chemically by using the impregnation-reduction method. The polymer membrane was impregnated with tetra-ammine platinum chloride hydrate and the metal ions were subsequently reduced by using either sodium tetrahydroborate or potassium tetrahydroborate. The hydrogen sensing characteristics with air as reference gas is reported. The sensors were capable of detecting hydrogen concentrations from 10 ppm to 10% in nitrogen. The response time was in the range of 10-30 s and a stable linear current output was observed. The thin Pt films were characterized by XRD, Infrared Spectroscopy, Optical Microscopy, Atomic Force Microscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy and EDAX. KW - Biosensor KW - Hydrogen sensor KW - amperometric sensor KW - porous Pt electrode KW - chemical reduction method Y1 - 2006 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:a96-opus-1399 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Chaiyboun, Ali A1 - Traute, Rüdiger A1 - Kiesewetter, Olaf A1 - Ahlers, Simon A1 - Müller, Gerhard A1 - Doll, Theodor T1 - Modular analytical multicomponent analysis in gas sensor arrays N2 - A multi-sensor system is a chemical sensor system which quantitatively and qualitatively records gases with a combination of cross-sensitive gas sensor arrays and pattern recognition software. This paper addresses the issue of data analysis for identification of gases in a gas sensor array. We introduce a software tool for gas sensor array configuration and simulation. It concerns thereby about a modular software package for the acquisition of data of different sensors. A signal evaluation algorithm referred to as matrix method was used specifically for the software tool. This matrix method computes the gas concentrations from the signals of a sensor array. The software tool was used for the simulation of an array of five sensors to determine gas concentration of CH4, NH3, H2, CO and C2H5OH. The results of the present simulated sensor array indicate that the software tool is capable of the following: (a) identify a gas independently of its concentration; (b) estimate the concentration of the gas, even if the system was not previously exposed to this concentration; (c) tell when a gas concentration exceeds a certain value. A gas sensor data base was build for the configuration of the software. With the data base one can create, generate and manage scenarios and source files for the simulation. With the gas sensor data base and the simulation software an on-line Web-based version was developed, with which the user can configure and simulate sensor arrays on-line. KW - Biosensor KW - Main sensitivity KW - cross sensitivity KW - matrix method KW - gas sensor array KW - modelling Y1 - 2006 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:a96-opus-1358 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Srivastava, Alok A1 - Singh, Virendra A1 - Dhand, Chetna A1 - Kaur, Manindar A1 - Singh, Tejvir A1 - Witte, Katrin A1 - Scherer, Ulrich W. T1 - Study of swift heavy ion modified conduction polymer composites for application as gas sensor N2 - A polyaniline-based conducting composite was prepared by oxidative polymerisation of aniline in a polyvinylchloride (PVC) matrix. The coherent free standing thin films of the composite were prepared by a solution casting method. The polyvinyl chloride-polyaniline composites exposed to 120 MeV ions of silicon with total ion fluence ranging from 1011 to 1013 ions/cm2, were observed to be more sensitive towards ammonia gas than the unirradiated composite. The response time of the irradiated composites was observed to be comparably shorter. We report for the first time the application of swift heavy ion modified insulating polymer conducting polymer (IPCP) composites for sensing of ammonia gas. KW - Biosensor KW - Conducing polymer KW - ammonia gas sensors KW - swift heavy ions KW - polymer composites Y1 - 2006 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:a96-opus-1345 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Wagner, Torsten A1 - Schöning, Michael Josef T1 - Preface of the Special Issue of I3S 2005 in Jülich (Germany) N2 - International Symposium on Sensor Science, I3S 2005 <3; 2005; Juelich, Germany> In: Sensors 2006, 6, 260-261 ISSN 1424-8220 KW - Biosensor KW - I3S 2005 KW - International Symposium on Sensor Science Y1 - 2006 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:a96-opus-1365 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Poghossian, Arshak A1 - Schumacher, Kerstin A1 - Kloock, Joachim P. A1 - Rosenkranz, Christian A1 - Schultze, Joachim W. A1 - Müller-Veggian, Mattea A1 - Schöning, Michael Josef T1 - Functional testing and characterisation of ISFETs on wafer level by means of a micro-droplet cell N2 - A wafer-level functionality testing and characterisation system for ISFETs (ionsensitive field-effect transistor) is realised by means of integration of a specifically designed capillary electrochemical micro-droplet cell into a commercial wafer prober-station. The developed system allows the identification and selection of “good” ISFETs at the earliest stage and to avoid expensive bonding, encapsulation and packaging processes for nonfunctioning ISFETs and thus, to decrease costs, which are wasted for bad dies. The developed system is also feasible for wafer-level characterisation of ISFETs in terms of sensitivity, hysteresis and response time. Additionally, the system might be also utilised for wafer-level testing of further electrochemical sensors. KW - Biosensor KW - Biosensorik KW - ISFET KW - Wafer KW - ISFET KW - wafer-level testing KW - capillary micro-droplet cell Y1 - 2006 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:a96-opus-1259 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Horsch, Andreas T1 - Die Masken des Harlekin : Formensprache im Charakterdesign T1 - The harlequin's masks : formal language in character design N2 - Ziel und Inhalt dieser Arbeit ist das Design eines Harlekin-Charakters und die Darstellung seiner Ausdrucksskala. Der Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf dem Studium der Gesichtsmuskeln, ihrer Formensprache und ihrer Relation zu den 6 Grundemotionen Traurigkeit, Ärger, Angst, Freude, Ekel und Überraschung (nach dem Modell von Paul Ekman). Alle 6 Emotionen sind in verschiedenen Intensitätsgraden und Variationen behandelt, wobei die Emotion der Freude aufgrund ihrer engen Bindung zum Harlekin-Charakter vergleichsweise umfassender bearbeitet wurde. Das Endergebnis stellt eine Bildreihe von ca. 50 Ausdrücken und eine Abhandlung über Gesichtsmuskulatur und -ausdruck, dessen Relation zu den Emotionen und den Hintergrund des Harlekincharakters dar. Die Illustrationen wurden unter Verwendung der 3D-Technologie von Maya 7.0 und ZBrush 2.0 ausgeführt. N2 - The content and goal of this work is the design of a harlequin-character and the depiction of his range of expression. The focal point lies on the study of the facial muscles, their formal vocabulary and their relation to the 6 basic emotions sadness, anger, fear, joy, disgust and surprise (after Paul Ekman's model). All 6 emotions are treated in different intensities and variations, whereas the emotion of joy is handled in a more profound way because of its close relationship to the harlequin-character. The end result is a series of illustrations of approx. 50 expressions and a treatise on the topic of facial musculature and expression, their relationship to emotions and the background of the harlequin-character. The illustrations were realized using the 3D-technologies of Maya 7.0 and ZBrush 2.0. KW - Harlekin KW - Gesichtsmuskel KW - Mimik KW - Modellierung KW - Gefühl KW - 3D KW - Charakter KW - Drahtgittermodell KW - Gesichtsmodellierung KW - Gesichtsausdruck KW - 3D KW - character KW - facial expression KW - facial modeling KW - wire frame model Y1 - 2006 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Fachblatt, Jahrgang 2005; Nr. 2 N2 - Institute 20 Jahre "Summer School Renewable Energy" Personen Prof. Dr.rer.nat. Dr.h.c. Gisela Engeln-Müllges geht in den Ruhestand Fachhochschul-Rektor Prof. Hermann-Josef Buchkremer geht in den Ruhestand Forschung "Badekultur in der Renaissance" Studenten an der Fachhochschule bauen Mini-Satellit Service Start von Cmpus, HIS QIS und neuem Webdesign "Join the best" - MLP bietet neue Chancen auf internationale Spitzenpraktika Forschungsergebnisse werden weltweit sichtbar Menschen an der FH Ein Bild entsteht zuerst im Kopf - die Diplom-Fotografin Jeanne Püttmann FH Aachen als Sprungbrett in luftige Höhen - Silke Lotties Auch mit 100 noch Flugbenzin im Blut! - Aachener Flugpionier Richard Perlia Zwischen Marathon und Studium - Angela Müller Einer der ersten Absolventen des Masterstudiengangs Facility Management - Mike Müller Aus den Fachbereichen Naturwissenschaften zum Anfassen: Lehrer zeigen hohe Motivation DIPLOMA 2005 - Derspringendepunkt Neue "Welten" erleben - Studierende beginnen ihren Auslandsaufenthalt Endlich der Sieg: Bauingenieure erfolgreich in der Wertung Bootskonstruktion Viele Fragen werden am Info-Tag Wirtschaftswissenschaften beantwortet Alumni Erster "Luft- und Raumfahrt" - Absolventenkongress Ein halbes Jahrhundert Bauingenieure Personalinfo Honorarprofessor Dr. Peter Lelkes Prof. Dr.-Ing. Günther Dahl Prof. Klaus Endrikat Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alexander Boeminghaus Prof. Dr. Narendra Bansal jetzt Rektor in Indien T3 - Fachblatt / FH Aachen - 2005, 2 KW - Fachhochschule Aachen KW - Fachhochschule Aachen KW - Aachen University of Applied Sciences Y1 - 2005 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Samm, Doris T1 - Mathematisches Pendel (Simulation in Java) N2 - Die Anwender können die Länge des Pendels und die Auslenkung einstellen. Es werden die Änderung der potentiellen und kinetischen Energie sowie des Auslenkwinkels als Funktion der Zeit dargestellt. KW - Pendel KW - Auslenkung KW - Javasimulation Y1 - 2003 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Samm, Doris T1 - Vertikal schwingende Feder (Simulation in Java) N2 - Die Anwender können die Federkonstante, die Amplitude und die Masse einstellen. Die Änderung der kinetischen und potentiellen Energie werden angezeigt und die Auslenkung als Funktion der Zeit dargestellt. KW - Feder KW - Amplitude KW - Auslenkung KW - Javasimulation Y1 - 2003 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Samm, Doris T1 - Horizontal schwingende Feder (Simulation in Java) N2 - Die Anwender können die Federkonstante, die Amplitude und die Masse einstellen. Es werden die Änderung der kinetischen und potentiellen Energie angezeigt und die Auslenkung als Funktion der Zeit dargestellt. KW - Feder KW - Amplitude KW - Auslenkung KW - Javasimulation Y1 - 2003 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Samm, Doris A1 - Witte, Tim T1 - Virtuelles Labor zur Verarbeitung elektronischer Signale N2 - Oberfläche zur Simulation einfacher Praktikumsversuche mit dem NIM System. Programmiert mit Flash MX. Die Simulation verschafft virtuellen Einblick in ein Pulselektroniklabor. KW - Impulstechnik KW - Signalquelle KW - Simulation KW - Virtuelle Realität KW - Pulselektroniklabor Y1 - 2003 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Samm, Doris A1 - Perteck, Patrik T1 - Der Helium-Neon-Laser N2 - In der Lerneinheit werden zunächst anschaulich die Eigenschaften verschiedener Lichtquellen sowie wichtige Begriffe erläutert. Anschließen wird das physikalische Prinzip des HeNe-Lasers erklärt. Die Lerneinheit endet mit der Beschreibung des technischen Aufbaus eines HeNe-Lasers. KW - Helium-Neon-Laser KW - Lichtquelle KW - Lichtabsorption KW - Lichtemission KW - Resonator KW - Simulation KW - Virtuelle Realität KW - Lichtbetrachtung KW - Besetzungsinversion KW - He-Ne Laser KW - He-Ne Schema Y1 - 2003 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Samm, Doris A1 - Meurer, Marcel T1 - Die elektrische Leitung und Supraleitung N2 - Die Lerneinheit stellt in anschaulicher Weise die verschiedenen Modelle der elektrischen Leitung dar und führt über diese zur Erklärung der Supraleitung. Effekte und Anwendungen der Supraleitung werden in Animationen und Bildern vorgeführt. Ein umfangreiches Glossar erläutert wichtige Begriffe. KW - Elektrische Leitung KW - Supraleitung KW - Elektronengas KW - Bändermodell KW - Festkörper KW - Elektrische Leitung KW - Supraleitung Y1 - 2003 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Merten, Sabine T1 - Verbesserung der Ausbildung in der Mikrosystemtechnik - virtuelle Labore bereiten auf die Herstellung realer Drucksensoren vor (2 Fassungen: konvertiert und original N2 - Die Ausbildung in Hochtechnologien wie beispielsweise der Mikrosystemtechnik ist oft durch einen hohen Grad an Komplexität charakterisiert. Damit verbunden sind hohe Kosten für die Errichtung und den Betrieb der speziellen Laborräume und ihre häufig geringe Verfügbarkeit für die Studierenden. Zukünftige Ingenieure sammeln während ihrer Ausbildung aus diesen Gründen nur in beschränktem Umfang praktische Erfahrungen. Die Industrie hingegen fordert Personal mit hoher fachlicher Kompetenz, also fundiertem theoretischen Wissen und umfangreichen praktischen Kenntnissen. Dieser Diskrepanz – qualifizierte Ingenieure auf der einen Seite und eine eher theoretisch ausgerichtete Ausbildung auf der anderen Seite – wird mit einem neuen Blended-Learning-Konzept für MST-Technologiepraktika begegnet. Lernende werden über ein virtuelles Labor, das einen echten Reinraum mit realen Anlagen simuliert, intensiv auf reale Laborpraktika vorbereitet. Dabei geht es im virtuellen Labor gleichermaßen um die Vermittlung von Theorie und Praxis. Nur trainierte Teilnehmer mit einer intensiven Vorbereitung sind in der Lage, relativ eigenständig ein echtes MST-Bauteil innerhalb des anschließenden einwöchigen Laborkurses zu fertigen. Die Wirksamkeit des Konzeptes und die Steigerung des Lernerfolges durch die kombinierten virtuellen und realen Laborkurse wurden im Rahmen der Dissertation begleitend untersucht. Die Ergebnisse flossen direkt in die Weiterentwicklung der Technologiepraktika ein. Die Konzepte und Erkenntnisse sind zudem sehr interessant für die Entwicklung von Blended-Learning-Angeboten in ähnlichen oder anderen Fachgebieten sowie für weitere Bildungseinrichtungen. (Die Dissertation liegt hier in 2 Fassungen vor: Die Originalfassung ist nur bei guter Rechnerausstattung und guter Netzanbindung nutzbar, die konvertierte Fassung ist unverändert, allerdings sind Qualitätseinbußen beim Ausdruck einiger Grafiken möglich) N2 - Education in high technologies, like e.g. Microsystems technology, is usually characterized by a high degree of complexity. In addition it is usually connected with large economic efforts for invest, operation and maintenance of the special laboratory facilities. The access to such facilities for educational purposes is often quite limited. Therefore engineering students rather rarely gather practical experience in such technologies during their university studies. In contrast, industry has a large demand for engineers with high professional competence, i.e. profound theoretical knowledge combined with substantial practical experience. The newly developed blended learning concept for MST laboratory training tries to bridge the gap between the need for qualified engineers and the more theoretical university education. The learners prepare intensively for real hands-on clean room trainings with a virtual technology laboratory, i.e. a computer simulation of the clean room machines and the corresponding processes. In the virtual technology laboratory the students brush up their theoretical knowledge and at the same time learn to operate the complex clean room machines. Only well trained and intensively prepared students are capable to produce a fully functional MST component within a compact clean room laboratory course of only one week duration and an only modest amount of supervision. The effectivity of this concept and the increase of the learning success due to the specific mixture of virtual and real laboratory sessions has been accompanied and analysed by this dissertation. The results have been used to further improve the laboratory courses. Concepts and results are also very attractive for comparable blended learning proposals in other technical disciplines. KW - Mikrosystemtechnik KW - Virtuelles Laboratorium KW - Lernprogramm KW - Hochschule / Lehre / Evaluation KW - Computersimulation KW - Drucksensor KW - Blended-Learning KW - Reinraumpraktikum KW - blended learning KW - hands-on cleanroom training Y1 - 2005 N1 - Zugl.: Saarbrücken, Univ., Diss., 2005 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Baroud, G. A1 - Wu, J.Z. A1 - Bohner, M A1 - Sponagel, Stefan A1 - Steffen, T. T1 - How to determine the permeability for cement infiltration into osteoporotic cancellous bone JF - Medical Engineering & Physics. 25 (2003), H. 4 N2 - Cement augmentation is an emerging surgical procedure in which bone cement is used to infiltrate and reinforce osteoporotic vertebrae. Although this infiltration procedure has been widely applied, it is performed empirically and little is known about the flow characteristics of cement during the injection process. We present a theoretical and experimental approach to investigate the intertrabecular bone permeability during the infiltration procedure. The cement permeability was considered to be dependent on time, bone porosity, and cement viscosity in our analysis. In order to determine the time-dependent permeability, ten cancellous bone cores were harvested from osteoporotic vertebrae, infiltrated with acrylic cement at a constant flow rate, and the pressure drop across the cores during the infiltration was measured. The viscosity dependence of the permeability was determined based on published experimental data. The theoretical model for the permeability as a function of bone porosity and time was then fit to the testing data. Our findings suggest that the intertrabecular bone permeability depends strongly on time. For instance, the initial permeability (60.89 mm4/N.s) reduced to approximately 63% of its original value within 18 seconds. This study is the first to analyze cement flow through osteoporotic bone. The theoretical and experimental models provided in this paper are generic. Thus, they can be used to systematically study and optimize the infiltration process for clinical practice. KW - Osteoporose KW - Permeabilität KW - Viskose Strömung KW - Viskosität KW - Vertebroplastie KW - Cement infiltration KW - Vertebroplasty KW - Osteoporosis KW - Permeability KW - Experiment KW - Analysis KW - Viscous flow Y1 - 2003 SN - 1350-4533 SP - 283 EP - 288 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kühn, Raoul-Roman A1 - Haugner, Werner A1 - Staat, Manfred A1 - Sponagel, Stefan T1 - A Two Phase Mixture Model based on Bone Observation N2 - An optimization method is developed to describe the mechanical behaviour of the human cancellous bone. The method is based on a mixture theory. A careful observation of the behaviour of the bone material leads to the hypothesis that the bone density is controlled by the principal stress trajectories (Wolff’s law). The basic idea of the developed method is the coupling of a scalar value via an eigenvalue problem to the principal stress trajectories. On the one hand this theory will permit a prediction of the reaction of the biological bone structure after the implantation of a prosthesis, on the other hand it may be useful in engineering optimization problems. An analytical example shows its efficiency. KW - Knochen KW - Knochenbildung KW - Knochenchirugie KW - Strukturanalyse KW - Schwammknochen KW - Knochendichte KW - Wolffsches Gesetz KW - bone structure KW - bone density KW - Wolff's Law KW - cancellous bone Y1 - 2004 ER -