A micro gas chromatograph for high-speed determinations of explosive markers

2011 16th International Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Conference, TRANSDUCERS'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2082-2085

  Zellers, E T ^a   Serrano, G ^a   Chang, H ^a   Amos, L K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

explosives; micro gas chromatograph; microsystem; nanoparticles; sensor array

Indexed keywords

2 ,6-DINITROTOLUENE; CHANNEL LENGTH; CHEMIRESISTORS; CONVENTIONAL DESIGN; DUTY CYCLES; FUNCTIONALIZED; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; HIGH-SPEED; HIGH-VOLUME SAMPLER; INSTRUMENT CONTROL; INTEGRATED ARRAYS; INTERFACE LAYER; LABVIEW; LIMITS OF DETECTION; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; MARKER COMPOUNDS; MICRO ANALYTICAL SYSTEMS; MICRO-GAS; MICROCOLUMNS; MICROMACHINED; NEAR-REAL TIME; PARTS-PER-BILLION; RESPONSE PATTERNS; RETENTION TIME; TAGGANTS;

ACTUATORS; ADSORPTION; BYPRODUCTS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; LAPTOP COMPUTERS; MICROSYSTEMS; MONOLAYERS; NANOPARTICLES; SENSOR ARRAYS;

SOLID-STATE SENSORS;

EID: 80052104326     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/TRANSDUCERS.2011.5969272     Document Type: Conference Paper

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