Portable aromatic VOC gas sensor for onsite continuous air monitoring with 10-ppb benzene detection capability

NTT Technical Review

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 30-37

  Horiuchi, Tsutomu ^a,b   Ueno, Yuko ^a,c,d,e   Camou, Serge ^a   Haga, Tsuneyuki ^a,b   Tate, Akiyuki ^b,f,g,h,i  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Japan)

^c Chemical Society of   (Japan)

^d Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry   (Japan)

^e Spectroscopical Society of   (Japan)

^f NTT Advance Technology Corporation   (Japan)

^g National Laboratory for High Energy Physics   (Japan)

^h Optical Society of   (Japan)

ⁱ Institute of Electronics   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZENE DETECTION; ETHYLBENZENE; PORTABLE GAS SENSOR;

BENZENE; STYRENE; TOLUENE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; XYLENE;

CHEMICAL SENSORS;

EID: 33645147284     PISSN: 13483447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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