P2MM.4 - How Information-Rich are Sensor Response Interactions? Overlap and Resolution in Chemical Sensor Array Design
- Event
- 17th International Meeting on Chemical Sensors - IMCS 2018
2018-07-15 - 2018-07-19
Vienna, Austria - Chapter
- P-2 - Mechanisms, Modeling and Simulation
- Author(s)
- A. Knapp, K. Johnson - US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington (USA)
- Pages
- 831 - 832
- DOI
- 10.5162/IMCS2018/P2MM.4
- ISBN
- 978-3-9816876-9-9
- Price
- free
Abstract
Chemical sensor development often progresses by combining an analyte-dependent chemical phenomenon that induces a physical change with a transduction phenomenon responsive to that change. The effectiveness of the resultant sensor relative to other sensors is then considered in terms of a change in signal-to-noise or in “selectivity” as a result of the interplay between the underlying phenomena. Unfortunately, when arrays of these and/or related sensors are constructed, the aggregate capability of the resultant array underperforms expectations suggesting a significant overlap in the informatic capacity of the constituent sensors. This abstract presents a nascent theoretical approach and methodology for probing the overlap in sensing capabilities among sensors using mutual information and simple models for chemical sensing systems.