2009 IEEE SensorsPub Date : 2009-10-01DOI: 10.1109/ICSENS.2009.5398508
Qiuyu Fu, Wancheng Zhang, Qingyu Lin, N. Wu
{"title":"A novel CMOS color pixel for vision chips","authors":"Qiuyu Fu, Wancheng Zhang, Qingyu Lin, N. Wu","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2009.5398508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2009.5398508","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a novel CMOS color pixel with a 2D metal-grating structure for real-time vision chips. It consists of an N-well/P-substrate diode without salicide and 2D metal-grating layers on the diode. The periods of the 2D metal structure are controlled to realize color filtering. We implemented sixteen kinds of the pixels with the different metal-grating structures in a standard 0.18µm CMOS process. The measured results demonstrate that the N-well/P-substrate diode without salicide and with the 2D metal-grating structures can serve as the high speed RGB color active pixel sensor for real-time vision chips well.","PeriodicalId":262591,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE Sensors","volume":"158 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132677175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
2009 IEEE SensorsPub Date : 2009-10-01DOI: 10.1109/ICSENS.2009.5398269
Yu Chen, Y. Wen, Li Ping
{"title":"Piezoelectric-ceramic-embedded smart concrete module for structure health monitory","authors":"Yu Chen, Y. Wen, Li Ping","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2009.5398269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2009.5398269","url":null,"abstract":"A smart concrete module with embedded PZT ceramic element is proposed to monitor the health of the structure. Being embedded, the PZT ceramic is in a complicate environment which results in the changes of physical properties of PZT element. In this paper, a new method of measuring energy losses is first proposed to evaluate the effect of such physical changes. In order to measure the energy losses, the corresponding dissipation factors are calculated from the piezoelectric equivalent parameters. In the stress and temperature experiments, two kinds of PZT ceramic perform different features which also result in changes of energy losses. It is also found that when the environment temperature is unstable, the changes of the equivalent parameters are in fact the results of both the effects of stress and temperature. However, comparing the stress with temperature experimental results, it is found that the eigen frequencies of the embedded piezoelectric ceramic perform special characteristics that they are more sensitive to temperature than to stress. It enables us to solve the problem of the stress and temperature cross sensitivity.","PeriodicalId":262591,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE Sensors","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126581872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
2009 IEEE SensorsPub Date : 2009-10-01DOI: 10.1109/ICSENS.2009.5398464
Choon-Young Lee, Si-Hyun Ryu, Sang-Ryong Lee, C. Park
{"title":"Temperature distributions in LPG tank with RBF neural network","authors":"Choon-Young Lee, Si-Hyun Ryu, Sang-Ryong Lee, C. Park","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2009.5398464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2009.5398464","url":null,"abstract":"The temperature distribution in a LPG tank has been studied by simultaneous measurements in different points of vertical and horizontal sections. Monitoring the temperature of an LPG tank is one of the safety measures in the operation of tank-lorry carrying the LPG. Surface temperature of LPG tank should be maintained below predefined value which is 40°C for example. Temperatures at several regions in the tank were monitored by temperature sensors modules which are attached on the surface. To get temperature field in a given region, we proposed a technique of using radial basis neural networks. The proposed method is simple and directly performed with less computational complexity than conventional physical model based approaches. The experimental results were well performed in the estimation of a spatial temperature distribution.","PeriodicalId":262591,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE Sensors","volume":"254 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134475768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
2009 IEEE SensorsPub Date : 2009-10-01DOI: 10.1109/ICSENS.2009.5398336
H. Kudo, K. Miyajima, D. Takahashi, T. Arakawa, H. Saito, K. Mitsubayashi, M. Sawai
{"title":"Fiber optic bio-sniffer (biochemical gas sensor) using UV-LED light for monitoring ethanol vapor with high sensitivity & selectivitiy","authors":"H. Kudo, K. Miyajima, D. Takahashi, T. Arakawa, H. Saito, K. Mitsubayashi, M. Sawai","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2009.5398336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2009.5398336","url":null,"abstract":"A fiber optic bio-sniffer (biochemical gas sensor) for alcohol gas monitoring with high sensitivity and high selectivity was fabricated and tested. The bio-sniffer is a gas sensor that uses molecular recognition of enzyme to improve selectivity. Usually, enzyme loses activity in the gas phase. Applying a flow-cell with a gas-intake window to the sensing probe, enzyme immobilized at the sensing region was kept in the sufficient wet condition to maintain activity. The bio-sniffer measures ethanol (EtOH) vapor by measuring fluorescence of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH), which is produced by enzymatic reaction at the flow-cell. In order to construct a simplified system suitable for on-site applications, a high-intensity ultraviolet light emitting diode (UV-LED) was utilized as an excitation light. Owing to low power consumption comparing with previous light sources, the bio-sniffer was considered to be suitable for laptop applications such as on-site monitoring. According to the characterization, the bio-sniffer for was useful for continuous alcohol monitoring and showed high selectivity. The calibration range was 0.30–300 ppm which is suitable for evaluation of capacity to metabolize alcohol.","PeriodicalId":262591,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE Sensors","volume":"227 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133808093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
2009 IEEE SensorsPub Date : 2009-10-01DOI: 10.1109/ICSENS.2009.5398542
A. Lelong, M. O. Carrion
{"title":"On line wire diagnosis using Multicarrier Time Domain Reflectometry for fault location","authors":"A. Lelong, M. O. Carrion","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2009.5398542","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2009.5398542","url":null,"abstract":"A method for on line wire diagnosis using reflectometry is presented. It consists in detecting and locating electric faults in wiring networks while the target system is running. Since the system is diagnosed on line, it is necessary to minimize interferences between the target system and the reflectometer. The Multicarrier Time Domain Reflectometry presented here allows a complete control of the spectrum of the injected signal in order to adapt it to the application constraints. The measurement error due to the spectrum distortion and a post-processing is proposed to provide valid reflectometry result close to those of classical methods for complex networks.","PeriodicalId":262591,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE Sensors","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115719823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
2009 IEEE SensorsPub Date : 2009-10-01DOI: 10.1109/ICSENS.2009.5398351
S. Nishiyama, T. Nakai, M. Shuzo, J. Delaunay, I. Yamada
{"title":"Effect of micropillar density on separation efficiency of semi-packed micro gas chromatographic columns","authors":"S. Nishiyama, T. Nakai, M. Shuzo, J. Delaunay, I. Yamada","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2009.5398351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2009.5398351","url":null,"abstract":"In this report, the effect on the separation efficiency of the density of square micropillars in semi-packed gas chromatography columns are investigated. Two columns with the same pillar arrangement but different pillar density were experimentally characterized and simulated. The experimental results show that the high pillar density column is 1.2 times superior to the low pillar density column with respect to the separation efficiency. Good consistency between simulated and observed band broadening of the peaks was found.","PeriodicalId":262591,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE Sensors","volume":"12 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124535680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
2009 IEEE SensorsPub Date : 2009-10-01DOI: 10.1109/ICSENS.2009.5398152
A. Wisitsoraat, D. Phokharatkul, A. Tuantranont, C. Saikaew, C. Oros, P. Limsuwan
{"title":"Effect of carbon doping on gas sensing properties of molybdenum oxide nanoneedles","authors":"A. Wisitsoraat, D. Phokharatkul, A. Tuantranont, C. Saikaew, C. Oros, P. Limsuwan","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2009.5398152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2009.5398152","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents gas sensing study of carbon doped molybdenum oxide (MoOx) nanoneedles prepared by reactive sputtering process. The MoOx gas sensing layers have been achieved with varying carbon concentration. Structural and morphological characterization by means of SEM TEM and XRD indicate that carbon is incorporated into MoOx nanoneeles but carbon doping does not considerably affect surface morphology and crystal quality. Electrical characterizations highlight interesting behaviors for the layer tested. The MoOx film's conductance decreases by more than one order of magnitude with carbon doping. As carbon content increases, acetone and particularly ethanol responses are significantly improved by more than an order of magnitude. In contrary, hydrogen and methane response are low and relatively insensitive to carbon content. Therefore, carbon doping makes MoOx nanoneedles more selective toward volatile organic compounds (VOCs) than hydrocarbon gases.","PeriodicalId":262591,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE Sensors","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114788148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
2009 IEEE SensorsPub Date : 2009-10-01DOI: 10.1109/ICSENS.2009.5398397
S. Amaya, D. Dao, S. Sugiyama
{"title":"PMMA high sensitive capacitive micro accelerometer fabricated based on hot embossing","authors":"S. Amaya, D. Dao, S. Sugiyama","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2009.5398397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2009.5398397","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents for the first time the fabrication and testing of a PMMA capacitive micro accelerometer based on hot embossing and ultra-precision machining. The detection principle of the PMMA micro accelerometer is based on closing-gap capacitive combs. Since the sensor is made of PMMA polymer, it would be very flexible, high sensitive and low cost. The PMMA micro accelerometer was tested and very high sensitivity of 0.4pF /G or equivalent to 0.16V/G/V was obtained.","PeriodicalId":262591,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE Sensors","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115084964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
2009 IEEE SensorsPub Date : 2009-10-01DOI: 10.1109/ICSENS.2009.5398379
G. Scheipl, M. Zirkl, B. Stadlober, J. Groten, G. Jakopic, J. Krenn, A. Sawatdee, P. Bodo, P. Andersson
{"title":"Fabrication, characterization and modeling of PVDF based organic IR-sensors for human body recognition","authors":"G. Scheipl, M. Zirkl, B. Stadlober, J. Groten, G. Jakopic, J. Krenn, A. Sawatdee, P. Bodo, P. Andersson","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2009.5398379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2009.5398379","url":null,"abstract":"Within this work a cost-effective thin film-sensor-technology based on PVDF-TrFE polymers for detection of ambient changes of temperature has been developed. A wet-chemical fabrication routine for obtaining ferroelectric thin films has been developed leading to a gammabutyrolactone based sol-gel process. The suitability of the synthesized material with respect to its usage as IR-sensing layer has been evaluated by vibrational spectroscopy and various electrical characterizations. In a second step, the adaptation of the lab scale routines for large area printing techniques on flexible substrates and their influence on the overall sensor performance and stability has been developed and tested. For simplifying the design process of adequate sensors used in different industrial applications, a mathematical model based on the heat distribution in a multilayer sensor system has been assessed and revised by experiments.","PeriodicalId":262591,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE Sensors","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115113283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
2009 IEEE SensorsPub Date : 2009-10-01DOI: 10.1109/ICSENS.2009.5398170
J. Lu, T. Suga, Y. Zhang, T. Itoh, R. Maeda, T. Mihara
{"title":"Highly intergrated ultra-sensitive silicon disk micro resonator for trace amount of chemicals detection","authors":"J. Lu, T. Suga, Y. Zhang, T. Itoh, R. Maeda, T. Mihara","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2009.5398170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2009.5398170","url":null,"abstract":"Highly intergrated silicon disk mirco resonator with excellent quality factor, 1319 in air, was developed in this work for trace amount of chemicals detection. On resonator integrated piezoelectric PZT thin film enables low driving voltage (∼0.2V), good impedance matching with ICs and self actuation self sensing capability. The energy dissipation and other negative effects from PZT electrode stack were successfully compressed by refining the resonator's geometry. The proposed resonator is promising to wireless sensor network for human healthcare applications.","PeriodicalId":262591,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE Sensors","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116962513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}