Electronic nose for detecting multiple targets

Anirban Chakraborty; Ganga Parthasarathi; Rakesh Poddar; Weiqiang Zhao; Cheng Luo

doi:10.1117/12.666424

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18 May 2006 Electronic nose for detecting multiple targets

Anirban Chakraborty, Ganga Parthasarathi, Rakesh Poddar, Weiqiang Zhao, Cheng Luo

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Proceedings Volume 6223, Micro (MEMS) and Nanotechnologies for Space Applications; 622309 (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.666424
Event: Defense and Security Symposium, 2006, Orlando (Kissimmee), Florida, United States

Abstract

The discovery of high conductivity in doped polyacetylene in 1977 (garnering the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the three discovering scientists) has attracted considerable interest in the application of polymers as the semiconducting and conducting materials due to their promising potential to replace silicon and metals in building devices. Previous and current efforts in developing conducting polymer microsystems mainly focus on generating a device of a single function. When multiple micropatterns made of different conducting polymers are produced on the same substrate, many microsystems of multiple functions can be envisioned. For example, analogous to the mammalian olfactory system which includes over 1,000 receptor genes in detecting various odors (e.g., beer, soda etc.), a sensor consisting of multiple distinct conducting polymer sensing elements will be capable of detecting a number of analytes simultaneously. However, existing techniques present significant technical challenges of degradation, low throughput, low resolution, depth of field, and/or residual layer in producing conducting polymer microstructures. To circumvent these challenges, an intermediate-layer lithography method developed in our group is used to generate multiple micropatterns made of different, commonly used conducting polymers, Polypyrrole (PPy), Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxy)thiophene (PEDOT) and Polyaniline (PANI). The generated multiple micropatterns are further used in an "electronic nose" to detect water vapor, glucose, toluene and acetone.

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Anirban Chakraborty, Ganga Parthasarathi, Rakesh Poddar, Weiqiang Zhao, and Cheng Luo "Electronic nose for detecting multiple targets", Proc. SPIE 6223, Micro (MEMS) and Nanotechnologies for Space Applications, 622309 (18 May 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.666424

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