Solid State Gas Sensors - Industrial Application [Paperback]

Gas sensor products are very often the key to innovations in the fields of comfort, security, health, environment, and energy savings. This compendium focuses on what the research community labels as solid state gas sensors, where a gas directly changes the electrical properties of a solid, serving as the primary signal for the transducer. It starts with a visionary approach to how life in future buildings can benefit from the power of gas sensors. The requirements for various applications, such as for example the automotive industry, are then discussed in several chapters. Further contributions highlight current trends in new sensing principles, such as the use of nanomaterials and how to use new sensing principles for innovative applications in e.g. meteorology. So as to bring together the views of all the different groups needed to produce new gas sensing applications, renowned industrial and academic representatives report on their experiences and expectations in research, applications and industrialisation.

Part I? Requirements on sensing

Future building gas sensing applications
O. Ahmed

Requirements for gas sensors in automotive air quality applications
T. Tille

Automotive hydrogen sensors: current and future requirements
C. K?bel

Requirements for fire detectors
H. Scherzinger

Part II? Sensor principles

The power of nanomaterial approaches in gas sensors
C. Baratto, E. Comini, G. Faglia and G. Sberveglieri

Theory and application of suspended gate FET gas sensors
C. Senft, P. Iskra and I. Eisele

Chromium titanium oxide based ammonia sensors
K. Schmitt, C. Peter, J. W?llenstein

Part III? Applications

Combined humidity- and temperature senslc.