Detecting breath ammonia for non-invasive diagnostic based on low-cost organic diode with vertical nanojunctions

Proceedings of IEEE Sensors

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Dai, Ming Zhi ^a   Lin, Yi Lo ^b,c   Lin, Hong Cheng ^a   Zan, Hsiao Wen ^a   Chang, Kai Ting ^c   Meng, Hsin Fei ^a   Liao, Jiunn Wang ^b   Tsai, May Jywan ^c   Cheng, Henrich ^c,d  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA SENSORS; DETECTION LIMITS; HIGH REPRODUCIBILITY; NANOJUNCTIONS; NON-INVASIVE DIAGNOSTICS; ORGANIC DIODES; PRODUCTION COST; REAL-TIME RESPONSE; SENSING RESPONSE; SIMPLE STRUCTURES;

CARBON DIOXIDE; SOLID-STATE SENSORS;

AMMONIA;

EID: 84873951171     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSENS.2012.6411547     Document Type: Conference Paper

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