Sensors and Microsystems

The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:

• PLENARY TALKS

  • Fuzzy and intermingling: modeling mind dynamics

  • The imagery effect on memorizing verbal information: an experimental approach

  • Modelling nonlinear systems with cellular automata

  • Recent trends on gas sensors based on semiconducting thin films

  • From instruments to intelligent systems

• BIOSENSORS AND BIOELECTRONICS

  • DNA electrochemical biosensor for the detection of mutagenic pollutants

  • Electrode probes for the rapid assay of seafood toxins

  • Electron transfer from glucose oxidase to electrode surface via electron relays, bound covalently to the enzyme

  • Immunodetection of the Maillard reaction in food

  • Development of superoxide dismutase biosensors and their use in the determination of radical scavengers

  • New biosensors working in organic solvents

  • A bioelectronic system based on microelectrode arrays coupled to brain slices for electrophysiological measurements

  • A microvision based electrorotation measurement system to characterize dielectric properties of living cells

• CHEMICAL SENSORS BASED ON INORGANIC MATERIALS

  • Carbon monoxide electrochemical planar sensor for indoor applications

  • In₂O₃ sensors for environmental applications

  • Gas sensing properties of nano-sized MoO₃ thin films

  • Structural optical and electrical characterisation of nanostructured titania thick films

  • An application of gas sensors to high-energy physics

  • Preparation and characterization of SnO₂ and MoO_x-SnO₂ nano-sized powders for thick film gas sensors: surface chemistry and electrical response to NO₂

  • Low level NO₂ detection by means of a silicon integrated tin oxide sensor

  • Surface analysis of metal/SnO₂ and SnO₂/metal structures for gas sensors

  • Porous silicon organic and pollutant gas sensor

  • Reversible and irreversible effects of gas environments on porous silicon photoluminescence

  • The perturbative approach applied to the characterization of TiO₂ films for SAW sensor applications

  • Non-invasive specific chemical sensors and their applications

• CHEMICAL SENSORS BASED ON ORGANIC MATERIALS

  • Structural properties of mixed ultrathin organic films investigated by scanning probe microscopy

  • Study of the physical properties of Langmuir-Blodgett films of pyrrolic macrocylces

  • Polyvinyl-alcohol film coated relative humidity sensor based on dual resonator SAW oscillator

  • Porphyrin dimer Langmuir-Blodgett films for gas sensing applications

  • Preparation of porhyrin-C₆₀ and phtalocyanine-C₆₀ dyads

  • A new indicator dye covalently bound on controlled pore glasses as optical transducer for Hg(II)

  • A tripodal ligand incorporating the dansyl group

  • Sensing of anionic analytes based on the metal-ligand interaction

  • Novel Di- and polynuclear Pd(II) and Pt(II) biphosphine complexes with (poly)ethynylthiophene bridges: sensitive membranes for the detection of humidity and alcohols

  • Quartz microbalances in solution: study of the influence of the electrical and mechanical properties of the liquid

• CHEMFET

  • An ISFET based chemical sensor for the food industry

  • An ISFET based microsystem for pH measurements

• ARRAYS OF NON-SELECTIVE SENSORS

  • Application of an electronic nose to the quality analysis of tobacco varieties

  • Detection of vapours by a sol-gel sensors array

  • Comparison between MOS and CP-based electronic noses in the discrimination of extra virgin olive oils

  • A systematic way of extracting features from the dynamic response of a sensor array

  • Testing the resolving power of an electronic nose by discriminating various types of cheeses

  • Development of an electronic tongue based on potentiometric sensors

• INFRARED, OPTICAL AND RADIATION SENSORS

  • Absorption spectroscopy in the ultraviolet and visible range of hexavalent chromium aqueous solutions

  • Amorphous silicon infrared photodetector working at room temperature

  • Thin-film photodetectors for the ultraviolet and vacuum-ultraviolet spectral range

  • Silicon micro-optical antenna for EMC measurements

  • A computational algorithm for the pyroelectric sensor response to arbitrarily modulated signals: a square wave application

  • Characterization and modeling of PZT-based pyroelectric sensors

  • A four-quadrant beam position sensor for applications with frequency modulated IR laser diodes

• FIBER OPTICS SENSORS

  • Optical fibers for the monitoring of lighting in museum environments

  • Fiber optic optoacoustic sources

• MECHANICAL SENSORS

  • Vibrating system for calibration of acceleration microsensors

  • Sensitive garments for body kinematics recording

• MICROSYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY

  • An integrated Xenon flow regulator obtained by means of micromachining

  • Semiconductor devices characterization by scanning probe microscopy

  • Magnetic type integrated position sensor for automotive applications

  • Low power silicon microheaters for gas sensors

• ELECTRONICS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR SENSORS

  • Differential transresistance amplifier for noise performance optimisation in piezoresistive sensors

  • Read-out electronics for IR microbolometers array with smart features

  • A CMOS low-voltage bridge as an integrated temperature sensor

  • A CMOS low voltage circuit improves Wheatstone bridge sensitivity and resolution

  • A low-voltage resistive sensor based on a CMOS phase shifter

  • A study about noise in low voltage CMOS integrated temperature sensor

  • Programmable ADC with non linear characteristics for smart sensor applications