{"title":"Modelling and simulation of a miniaturized gyrometer","authors":"T. Grigorie, P. Negrea, Florentina Cirstea","doi":"10.1109/ISPTS.2015.7220104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPTS.2015.7220104","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents theoretical and numerical study of a MEMS vibration gyro based Coriolis effect. Two configurations of the gyro are modeled and simulated here: 1) with assumed control on the excitation axis (a simplified configuration used to validate the second one); and 2) gyro controlled on the excitation axis. Shown are: general dynamic equations of the gyrometer, mathematical models ant the resulted block diagrams for the two configurations, the control strategy for the second configuration, software implementations of the models and numerical simulations results.","PeriodicalId":6520,"journal":{"name":"2015 2nd International Symposium on Physics and Technology of Sensors (ISPTS)","volume":"20 4","pages":"162-168"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91490517","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}
{"title":"Hydrogen sensing properties of antimony doped tin dioxide based taguchi type gas sensor: Effect of palladium","authors":"Pratanu Nag, P. Devi","doi":"10.1109/ISPTS.2015.7220117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPTS.2015.7220117","url":null,"abstract":"There is a growing interest in developing efficient and economically viable hydrogen (H<sub>2</sub>) sensors for the swift detection of leakage of H<sub>2</sub> in areas where hydrogen is used. In the present study we have prepared palladium catalysed antimony doped tin dioxide by sonochemical process, as a H<sub>2</sub> gas sensing material for 1000 ppm to 8% by volume H<sub>2</sub> gas concentration. The electrical characteristics of the sensors before and after the H<sub>2</sub> exposure show significant changes at different temperatures. The response even shows more than 86% at 300 °C towards 1000 ppm H<sub>2</sub> gas in a selective manner.","PeriodicalId":6520,"journal":{"name":"2015 2nd International Symposium on Physics and Technology of Sensors (ISPTS)","volume":"77 1","pages":"224-229"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91541615","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}
Mayur Devrukhakar, Mangesh Dayaphule, Varsha Chaware, V. Giramkar, S. Joseph, G. Phatak
{"title":"Non-return microvalve using low temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC)","authors":"Mayur Devrukhakar, Mangesh Dayaphule, Varsha Chaware, V. Giramkar, S. Joseph, G. Phatak","doi":"10.1109/ISPTS.2015.7220131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPTS.2015.7220131","url":null,"abstract":"LTCC is a known suitable platform for microfluidic systems. We have developed actuation-less non-return valve for gases and liquids, which is based upon the inlet and reverse pressure. This work compares three different designs of such valves. In these designs, top lid and bottom cavity layer together forms micro fluidic channel, through which fluid or gas can flow. The pressure based movable ceramic part and the matching cavity at the inlet plays an important role in the valve designs. The designs are such that the liquid or gas flows from inlet to outlet without any difficulty. However, if the liquid or gas flows in reverse direction (i.e. from outlet to inlet) the movable part blocks the path at the cavity and opposes the liquid or gas flow through the channel. Two designs are based upon vertical motion of the movable ceramic part and has a `O' ring to rest to movable part at the inlet side. One of these designs usesZirconia (ZrO2) ball (design 2) while another has square shape (design 3) as the movable parts. Yet another design (design 1) is based upon sliding motion and teflon coating for lubrication. The initial testing using pressurised air (up to 6 bar) indicated that the reverse direction blockade is the best for design 2, which has shown leak rate of 3 ml min-1 at 6bar pressure. This is followed by design 3 and by design 1, which have shown leak rates of 30 ml min-1 and 100ml min-1 respectively.","PeriodicalId":6520,"journal":{"name":"2015 2nd International Symposium on Physics and Technology of Sensors (ISPTS)","volume":"5 1","pages":"289-292"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82297503","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}
Sudha Bendapudi, G. K. Kashyap, M. G. Lithin, M. Subhajit, B. Krishnamprasad, T. H. Shashikala
{"title":"Design of video processor for multi-head star sensor","authors":"Sudha Bendapudi, G. K. Kashyap, M. G. Lithin, M. Subhajit, B. Krishnamprasad, T. H. Shashikala","doi":"10.1109/ISPTS.2015.7220082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPTS.2015.7220082","url":null,"abstract":"Star Sensor, also known as star-tracker, is a high-accuracy 3-axis attitude sensor used onboard spacecrafts. It processes stars from a sky image captured using an area imaging detector (generally 1k × 1k pixels Charge Coupled Device) to generate attitude information. Its accuracy about the boresight is poorer than about the cross-axes. This is improved by using two sensor heads with staggered Fields-Of-View (FOVs) and three to avoid break during occultation of any head. All the sensor heads have identical processing operations. So, the Processing Unit (PU) is made common. This minimizes the system electronics, power consumption and also thermal dissipation on each CH, allowing more efficient cooling of CCD and improving sensor performance. The resulting multiple Camera Heads (CHs) are operated remotely by the common PU. Thus, a programmable Video Processor (VP) is designed for the CH as an efficient data acquisition co-processor to the PU. The VP works in parallel freeing PU for attitude computation from the data acquired from multiple CHs. VP acquires CCD images and pre-processes them to reduce data size, speeding up PU processing. It is programmable for different modes of operation based on full-frame star-search or Region-of-Interest (ROI) readout, thereby providing flexibility, while maintaining rigidity in implementation as required by CCD. Communication of the VP with the PU is configured via low-power high-speed SpaceWire link. The VP is implemented in a low-power FPGA. All instruction and data storage is on-chip.","PeriodicalId":6520,"journal":{"name":"2015 2nd International Symposium on Physics and Technology of Sensors (ISPTS)","volume":"98 1","pages":"59-62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79482109","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}
{"title":"Design and simulation of blocked blood vessel for early detection of heart diseases","authors":"Apoorva Garje, Y. Adhav, D. Bodas","doi":"10.1109/ISPTS.2015.7220113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPTS.2015.7220113","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present two-dimensional modeling and simulation of blood vessel using COMSOL Multiphysics. The rationale behind this study is that mathematical modeling and numerical simulation can lead to better understanding of the phenomena involved in vascular diseases. This study assumes that the fluid is laminar, non-Newtonian, viscous and compressible and the arterial wall is elastic. Parameters of blood vessel were assigned to the wall and parameters for fat deposits to the blockages. Blood is an example of a non-Newtonian fluid applied to the model in the present simulations. Structural deformation and fluid dynamics are determined simultaneously.","PeriodicalId":6520,"journal":{"name":"2015 2nd International Symposium on Physics and Technology of Sensors (ISPTS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"204-208"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72642226","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}
Amit Pawbake, V. Waman, R. Waykar, A. Mayabadi, R. Kulkarni, H. Pathan, S. Jadkar
{"title":"Synthesis of nanocrystalline silicon carbide thin films by HW-CVD using ethane carbon precursor for photo detector application","authors":"Amit Pawbake, V. Waman, R. Waykar, A. Mayabadi, R. Kulkarni, H. Pathan, S. Jadkar","doi":"10.1109/ISPTS.2015.7220089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPTS.2015.7220089","url":null,"abstract":"Hydrogenated nanocrystalline silicon carbide (nc-SiC:H) films were prepared by hot wire chemical vapor deposition (HW-CVD) method using ethane (C2H6) as a carbon precursor. The influence of deposition pressure on structural and optical properties was investigated. The formation of nc-SiC:H films was confirmed by low angle x-ray diffraction (XRD), Raman spectroscopy and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy analysis. An inverse relation between deposition pressure and deposition rate was observed. Optical band gap values, ETauc and E04 increases with increase in deposition pressure. In fact, optical band gap values estimated from E04 method was found higher than the ETauc values calculated from Tauc's plot. Finally, at optimized deposition pressure (450 mTorr), a photo detector having configuration glass/nc-SiC:H/Al have been fabricated and its photo response was studied. Further study is required to improve the quality of nc-SiC:H films to make use in photo detectors.","PeriodicalId":6520,"journal":{"name":"2015 2nd International Symposium on Physics and Technology of Sensors (ISPTS)","volume":"33 1","pages":"88-93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91231155","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}
{"title":"PT04. III-V Compound semiconductors based quantum structures for IR detection","authors":"S. .. Krupanidhi","doi":"10.1109/ISPTS.2015.7220160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPTS.2015.7220160","url":null,"abstract":"Long-wavelength infrared (LWIR) detectors are important in many different applications such as space surveillance systems, low-background infrared seeker-tracker systems, remote environmental monitoring, remote analysis of gases in outer space, and remote temperature measurement. One primary concern with producing LWIR detectors is that they must be made with a material having an energy band gap small enough to allow electrons to be excited from the valence band to the conduction band by the infrared radiation. However, the lowest band gap of the III-V material family is InSb (Eg= 0.174 eV @ 300 K), which corresponds to a wavelength of about 7.1 μm. This makes it difficult to fabricate a long-wavelength (8-14 μm) detector from a bulk III-V material. One way to approach is to make use of quantum wells (QWs) grown in the III-V material family. A QW is made when a thin layer of small band gap material is sandwiched between materials that have a higher band gap. This higher band gap material is called the barrier, where as the lower band gap material is called the well. If the well is thin enough and deep enough, then instead of a continuum of allowed states like those in the conduction band of a bulk semiconductor, a few discrete states are formed in the well. The number of discrete states that are formed depend on the physical and material properties of the well and barrier. Present talk deals with the development of Quantum wells and Dots of GaAs for efficient IR detection.","PeriodicalId":6520,"journal":{"name":"2015 2nd International Symposium on Physics and Technology of Sensors (ISPTS)","volume":"27 1","pages":"iv-iv"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83053058","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}
L. S. Vaidhyanathan, D. K. Baisnab, R. Baskaran, M. Janawadkar
{"title":"Development of planar first order gradiometer coupled to HTS SQUID sensor","authors":"L. S. Vaidhyanathan, D. K. Baisnab, R. Baskaran, M. Janawadkar","doi":"10.1109/ISPTS.2015.7220136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPTS.2015.7220136","url":null,"abstract":"The HTS SQUID sensors coupled to an on-chip integrated planar gradiometric pick-up loop were fabricated using highly reliable advanced micro-fabrication techniques such as deposition of superconducting thin films by Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD), UV photolithography and RF ion beam etching. It may be noted that use of wire wound gradiometers and approaches based on electronic subtraction of sensor outputs to realize synthetic gradiometers have not been entirely satisfactory. We have designed a first order planar gradiometer with two planar loops in opposition with the Josephson weak links in the form of microbridges located at the centre. Bicrystal SrTiO3 substrates with a 24° misorientation angle were used for realizing the Josephson weak links using YBCO thin films, as well as HTS planar gradiometer coupled to a HTS SQUID sensor. The performance of these devices are evaluated.","PeriodicalId":6520,"journal":{"name":"2015 2nd International Symposium on Physics and Technology of Sensors (ISPTS)","volume":"61 1","pages":"310-312"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80277643","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}
{"title":"Ga doped hematite (α-Fe2O3): A promising magnetic sensor material","authors":"R. Bhowmik, A. G. Lone, G. Vijayasri","doi":"10.1109/ISPTS.2015.7220074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPTS.2015.7220074","url":null,"abstract":"The magneto-electronic properties have been demonstrated for a novel class of ferromagnetic semiconductors based on Ga doped a-Fe2O3 (hematite) system. The doping of the Ga atoms into the lattices of Fe sites of oc-Fe2O3 structure has been performed by chemical coprecipitation and mechanical alloying routes. Among the metal doped hematite systems, Ga doped oc-Fe2O3 system has been found as a good candidate for achieving simultaneous electric and magnetic field controlled magneto-electronic properties. The magnetic field dependent I-V characteristics and ferroelectric polarization, and ferromagnetic loop under electric field have suggested that Ga doped a-Fe2O3 system could be a potential candidate for the room temperature applications in spintronics devices, especially in magnetic sensors and switches as shown in this paper.","PeriodicalId":6520,"journal":{"name":"2015 2nd International Symposium on Physics and Technology of Sensors (ISPTS)","volume":"39 1","pages":"22-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89255794","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}
{"title":"Organic acids assisted hydrothermal synthesis of WO3 nanoplates and their gas sensing properties","authors":"S. Mehta, S. S. Suryavanshi, I. S. Mulla","doi":"10.1109/ISPTS.2015.7220100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPTS.2015.7220100","url":null,"abstract":"Tungsten oxide is amongst the most widely used materials in electro-, photo-chromic applications. Recently tungsten oxide has been employed as sensing layer for detection of hazardous gases. In this work, we report synthesis of WO3 nanoparticles via a facile hydrothermal method using sodium tungstate and different organic acids (viz. citric acid, oxalic acid, malonic acid, and (L+) tartaric acid). We have investigated the effect/role of organic acid on the morphology and gas sensing properties. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) studies confirmed that citric acid and oxalic acid assisted routes give monoclinic structure (m-WO3) while malonic acid and (L+) tartaric acid give hexagonal structure (h-WO3). The nanoplate-like morphology was revealed by Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) analysis. The thick film of WO3 powder was deposited by using a screen printing technique. The gas response of thick films fired at 400°C/2h was studied. The change in the gas response of WO3 nanoplates for various concentrations and operating temperatures were studied for NOX, acetone, ethanol and ammonia vapors. In general, we observed response towards acetone, ethanol and ammonia vapors at higher operating temperature. However, the citric acid, oxalic acid and tartaric acid assisted WO3 exhibited good response for NOX at lower operating temperature (from 80°C-200°C). The gas response studies revealed that WO3 synthesized by citric acid assisted route exhibits highest sensitivity (S=77%) at 130°C towards NOX gas.","PeriodicalId":6520,"journal":{"name":"2015 2nd International Symposium on Physics and Technology of Sensors (ISPTS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"142-146"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87078430","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}