Low-cost wearable cantilever-based nanoparticle sensor microsystem for personal health and safety monitoring

2015 Transducers - 2015 18th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, TRANSDUCERS 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 428-431

  Wasisto, H S ^a   Wu, W ^a,b   Merzsch, S ^a   Uhde, E ^b   Waag, A ^a   Peiner, E ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b Wilhelm Klauditz Institut (WKI)   (Germany)

Author keywords

airborne nanoparticles; Carbon black; oscillating cantilever balance; personal monitor; real time gravimetry; short term exposure

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; CARBON BLACK; COSTS; MICROSYSTEMS; NANOCANTILEVERS; NANOPARTICLES; SOLID-STATE SENSORS;

AIRBORNE NANOPARTICLES; FAST MOBILITY PARTICLE SIZERS; MICRO-ELECTRO-MECHANICAL; OSCILLATING CANTILEVER; REAL TIME; REAL TIME MEASUREMENTS; REFERENCE MEASUREMENTS; SHORT-TERM EXPOSURE;

WEARABLE SENSORS;

EID: 84955514865     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/TRANSDUCERS.2015.7180952     Document Type: Conference Paper

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