AP4.2 - Wearable Chemical Hazard Detection Systems using Chip-scale Microsensors
- Event
- 17th International Meeting on Chemical Sensors - IMCS 2018
2018-07-15 - 2018-07-19
Vienna, Austria - Chapter
- Applications 4 - Safety
- Author(s)
- A. Motayed, B. Thomson, R. Debnath, A. Rani, C. Shi, A. Timilsina, I. Diagne - N5 Sensors, Inc., Rockville (USA)
- Pages
- 404 - 405
- DOI
- 10.5162/IMCS2018/AP4.2
- ISBN
- 978-3-9816876-9-9
- Price
- free
Abstract
A low-power microsensor technology for rapid detection of airborne chemical threats is presented. Leveraging N5’s chip-scale sensor platform, the next-generation of body-worn, i.e. wearable detectors capable of detecting various fire gases, toxic industrial chemicals, and chemical warfare agents can be realized. The sensor devices are based on a patented architecture, which combines a highperformance micro-machined semiconducting photoconductor with metal-oxide photocatalytic nanoclusters, resulting in selective micro sensors on-a-chip. The architecture represents a paradigmshift in low-power, compact chemical sensors, and addresses the capability gap that exists between the desperate need for low-power, wearable gas and chemical detectors and current inadequate mature sensor technologies that are used in handheld monitors.