Ultra-fast chemical sensing microsystem employing resistive nanomaterials

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5389, Issue , 2004, Pages 366-376

  Tan, Su L ^a   Covington, James A ^a   Gardner, Julian W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3D fingerprint; Chemosensor array; Pulse width and flow rate variation; Spatio temporal; Stereo olfactory image

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SENSORS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRONICS PACKAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

3D FINGERPRINT; CHEMOSENSOR ARRAYS; PULSE WIDTH AND FLOW RATE VARIATION; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; STEREO OLFACTORY IMAGE;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 10044293261     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.539995     Document Type: Conference Paper

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