Microhotplates for metal oxide semiconductor gas sensor applications—Towards the CMOS-MEMS monolithic approach

H Liu, L Zhang, KHH Li, OK Tan - Micromachines, 2018 - mdpi.com
The recent development of the Internet of Things (IoT) in healthcare and indoor air quality
monitoring expands the market for miniaturized gas sensors. Metal oxide gas sensors based …

Challenges and opportunities of chemiresistors based on microelectromechanical systems for chemical olfaction

M Guo, JT Brewster II, H Zhang, Y Zhao, Y Zhao - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
Microelectromechanical-system (MEMS)-based semiconductor gas sensors are considered
one of the fastest-growing, interdisciplinary high technologies during the post-Moore era …

Technological journey towards reliable microheater development for MEMS gas sensors: A review

P Bhattacharyya - IEEE Transactions on device and materials …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Micromachined silicon platforms, owing to some of its inherent advantages including
miniaturized dimensions, ultralow power consumption, reduced batch fabrication cost, long …

Fast response integrated MEMS microheaters for ultra low power gas detection

Q Zhou, A Sussman, J Chang, J Dong, A Zettl… - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2015 - Elsevier
Semiconducting metal oxide (SMO) gas sensors typically operate at a few hundred degrees
Celsius and consume hundreds of milliwatts of power, limiting their application in battery …

Fast topographic optical imaging using encoded search focal scan

N Vilar, R Artigas, M Duocastella, G Carles - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
A central quest in optics is to rapidly extract quantitative information from a sample. Existing
topographical imaging tools allow non-contact and three-dimensional measurements at the …

Tungsten-based SOI microhotplates for smart gas sensors

SZ Ali, F Udrea, WI Milne… - Journal of …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper is concerned with the design, fabrication, and characterization of novel high-
temperature silicon on insulator (SOI) microhotplates employing tungsten resistive heaters …

ZnO-nanowire size effect induced ultra-high sensing response to ppb-level H2S

Y Chen, P Xu, T Xu, D Zheng, X Li - Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2017 - Elsevier
Presented is nano-size effect of ZnO nanowires (NWs) on sensitivity of hydrogen sulfide (H 2
S) detection in ambient atmosphere. The sensing mechanism of ZnO NWs for H 2 S …

Research of low-power MEMS-based micro hotplates gas sensor: A Review

Z Yuan, F Yang, F Meng, K Zuo, J Li - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, the research status of low power micro hot plate gas sensor is reviewed. This
type of sensor is characterized by the combination of MEMS technology and related …

A Review on Development and Optimization of Microheaters for High-Temperature In Situ Studies

RG Spruit, JT Van Omme… - Journal of …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)-based sample carriers became a breakthrough for
in situ inspection techniques, especially in transmission electron microscopy where the …

Method and apparatus for load-locked printing

S Somekh, E Vronsky - US Patent 8,383,202, 2013 - Google Patents
US PATENT DOCUMENTS having one or more of chambers. Each chamber is partitioned
from the other chambers by physical gates or fluidic curtains. A controller coordinates …