Optimized temperature modulation of micro-hotplate gas sensors through pseudorandom binary sequences

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1369-1377

  Vergara, Alexander ^a   Llobet, Eduard ^a   Brezmes, Jesús ^a   Vilanova, Xavier ^a   Ivanov, Peter ^a   Gràcia, Isabel ^b   Cané, Carles ^b   Correig, Xavier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE MICROELECTRÓNICA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Micro hotplate gas sensor; Pseudorandom binary sequence (PRBS); Quantitative gas analysis; System identification; Temperature modulation; Variable selection

Indexed keywords

MICRO-HOTPLATE GAS SENSORS; QUANTITATIVE GAS ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE MODULATION;

AMMONIA; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NITROGEN OXIDES; OPTIMIZATION; THERMAL EFFECTS; TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS;

CHEMICAL SENSORS;

EID: 29044438556     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2005.855605     Document Type: Article

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