Sensors and Microsystems: AISEM 2011 Proceedings

✍ Scribed by Mauro Tomassetti, Elisabetta Martini, Luigi Campanella, Luciano Carlucci (auth.), Arnaldo D’Amico, Corrado Di Natale, Lucia Mosiello, Giovanna Zappa (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 334
• Series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 109
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book contains a selection of papers presented at the 16th AISEM (“Associazione Italiana Sensori e Microsistemi”) National Conference on Sensors and Microsystems, held in Rome 7-9 February 2011. The conference highlighted updated results from both theoretical and applied research in the field of sensors and microsystems. This book presents material in an interdisciplinary approach, covering many aspects of the disciplines related to sensors and microsystems, including physics, chemistry, materials science, biology and applications.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Determination of Immunoglobulins G in Human Serum and Cow Milk Using a Direct Immunological Method Based on Surface Plasmon Resonance....Pages 3-7
Erythropoietin Detection: A Biosensor Approach....Pages 9-13
The Potential Affibodies in New Cancer Marker Immunosensors....Pages 15-18
Development of Immunosensor Operating in Organic Mixture for Analysis of Triazinic Pesticides in Olive Oil....Pages 19-23
Innovative Electrodes to Control Trace Metal Ionization Used to Treat Pathogens in Water Distribution Systems....Pages 25-30
High-Sensitive Impedimetric Aptasensor for Detection Ochratoxin A in Food....Pages 31-35
Introduction of an Electrochemical Genosensor for Detection of P53 Gene Via Sandwich Hybridization Method....Pages 37-41
Peptide Modified Gold Nanoparticles for the Detection of Food Aromas....Pages 43-46
Front Matter....Pages 47-47
Relative Permittivity of Nanostructured Solid Solutions of Tin and Titanium Oxides....Pages 49-54
NO 2 Sensors with Reduced Power Consumption Based on Mesoporous Indium Oxide....Pages 55-59
Humidity and Temperature Sensors on Flexible Transparency Sheets....Pages 61-65
Polymer/Metal Oxides Composites on Flexible Commercial Substrates as Capacitive Sensors....Pages 67-71
Spectroscopy and Electrochemistry of Peptide-Based Self-Assembled Monolayers....Pages 73-77
Organic Vapor Detection by QCM Sensors Using CNT-Composite Films....Pages 79-85
A Portable Sensor System for Air Pollution Monitoring and Malodours Olfactometric Control....Pages 87-92
A Resistive Sensor for Carbon Monoxide Detection....Pages 93-97
Synthesis, Characterization and Sensing Properties of Nanostructured V 2 O 5 Prepared by Electrospinning....Pages 99-103
Sensing Properties of SnO 2 /CNFs Hetero-Junctions....Pages 105-108
Response Towards Humidity of Air Stable FETS Based on Polyhexylthiophene Dispersed in Porous Titania....Pages 109-113
Tuned Sensing Properties of Metal-Modified Carbon-Based Nanostructures Layers for Gas Microsensors....Pages 115-119
Front Matter....Pages 47-47
Sub-PPM Nitrogen Dioxide Conductometric Response at Room Temperature by Graphene Flakes Based Layer....Pages 121-125
Detection of Breath Alcohol Concentration Using a Gas Sensor Array....Pages 127-132
Towards a Multiparametric Ammonia Sensor Based on Dirhodium Complexes....Pages 133-138
Application of Artificial Neural Networks to a Gas Sensor-Array Database for Environmental Monitoring....Pages 139-144
Discrimination Between Different Types of Coffee According to Their Country of Origin....Pages 145-149
Evaluation of White Truffle’s Aroma with Panelists and a Gas Sensor Array....Pages 151-155
A Semi-Supervised Learning Approach to Artificial Olfaction....Pages 157-162
Developing Artificial Olfaction Techniques for Contamination Detection on Aircraft CFRP Surfaces: The Encomb Project....Pages 163-166
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Piezoelectric Polymer Films for Tactile Sensors....Pages 169-173
An Ultra High Sensitive Current Sensor Based on Superconducting Quantum Interference Device....Pages 175-180
Tactile Sensing Systems Based on POSFET Sensing Arrays....Pages 181-186
POSFET Touch Sensing Devices: Bias Circuit Design Based on the ACM MOS Transistor Compact Model....Pages 187-192
Micro-Power Scavenging from Multiple Heterogeneous Piezoelectric and RF Sources....Pages 193-198
Wireless Energy Meters for Distributed Energy Efficiency Applications....Pages 199-203
Mass Response of A CMOS-Compatible, Magnetically Actuated MEMS Microbalance....Pages 205-209
Acoustic Particle Velocity Sensors Based on a Thermal Principle....Pages 211-215
Front Matter....Pages 217-217
Static Light Scattering for Measuring Biological Cell Concentration....Pages 219-223
Hybrid Ring-Resonator Optical Systems for Nanoparticle Detection and Biosensing Applications....Pages 225-229
High-Order One-Dimensional Silicon Photonic Crystals with a Reflectivity Notch at λ = 1.55 μm....Pages 231-234
Distributed Strain and Temperature Sensing at CM-Scale Spatial Resolution by BOFDA....Pages 235-239
Front Matter....Pages 217-217
Cascaded LPG and FBG Integrated in a Miniaturized Flow Cell for Compensated Refractometric Measurement....Pages 241-245
An Investigation on the Double Nature of Photons....Pages 247-253
Front Matter....Pages 255-255
Microfluidic System for Real Time PCR Sample Preparation....Pages 257-260
Towards MEMS Fabrication by Silicon Electrochemical Micromachining Technology....Pages 261-264
Development of a SOLT Calibration Setup for SAW Sensor Characterization....Pages 265-269
A Very Large Dynamic Range Integrated Interface Circuit for Heterogeneous Resistive Gas Sensors Matrix Read-Out....Pages 271-277
Design of an Electronic Oscillator Based on an On-Chip MEMS Resonator Aimed at Sensing Applications....Pages 279-283
An Analog Automatic Lock-In Amplifier for the Accurate Detection of Very Low Gas Concentrations....Pages 285-291
A CCII-Based Oscillating Circuit as Resistive/Capacitive Humidity Sensor Interface....Pages 293-299
An Accurate and Simple Frequency Estimation Method for Sensor Applications....Pages 301-306
Compact Low Noise Interfaces for Multichannel MEMS Thermal Sensors....Pages 307-311

✦ Subjects

Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation; Circuits and Systems; Nanotechnology and Microengineering