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Anal Chem

Title:		Detection and discrimination capabilities of a multitransducer single-chip gas sensor system
Author(s):		Kurzawski P; Hagleitner C; Hierlemann A;
Address:		"Physical Electronics Laboratory, ETH Zurich, HPT-H8, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland. pkurz@phys.ethz.ch"
Journal Title:		Anal Chem
Year:		2006
Volume:		78
Issue:		19
Page Number:		6910 - 6920
DOI:		10.1021/ac0610107
ISSN/ISBN:		0003-2700 (Print) 0003-2700 (Linking)
Abstract:		"The performance of a single-chip, three-transducer, complementary metal oxide semiconductor gas sensor microsystem has been thoroughly evaluated. The monolithic gas sensor system includes three polymer-coated transducers, a mass-sensitive cantilever, a thermoelectric calorimetric sensor, and an interdigitated capacitive sensor that are integrated along with all electronic circuits needed to operate these sensors. The system additionally includes a temperature sensor and a serial interface unit so that it can be directly connected to, for example, a microcontroller. Several multitransducer chips have been coated with various partially selective polymers and then have been exposed to different volatile organic compounds. The sensitivities of the three different polymer-coated transducers to defined sets of gaseous analytes have been determined. The obtained sensitivity values have then been normalized with regard to the partition coefficients of the respective analyte/polymer combination to reveal the transducer-specific effects. The results of this investigation show that the three different transducers respond to fundamentally different molecular properties, such as the analyte molecular mass (mass-sensitive), its dielectric coefficient (capacitive), and its sorption heat (calorimetric) so that correlations between the determined sensitivity values and the different molecular properties of the absorbed analytes could be established. The information as provided by the system, hence, represents a body of orthogonal data that can serve as input to appropriate signal processing and pattern recognition techniques to address issues such as the quantification of analytes in mixtures"
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Notes:		"PubMed-not-MEDLINEKurzawski, Petra Hagleitner, Christoph Hierlemann, Andreas eng 2006/09/30 Anal Chem. 2006 Oct 1; 78(19):6910-20. doi: 10.1021/ac0610107"