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 -