Forschung / Research

Our Sensors & Actuators paper "Integrated pre-concentrator gas sensor microsystem for ppb level benzene detection" is featured by Advances in Engineering as a significant contribution in Chemical Engineering and Sensor Technology.

Martin Leidinger, Max Rieger, Tilman Sauerwald, Christine Alépée, Andreas Schütze:
Integrated pre-concentrator gas sensor microsystem for ppb level benzene detection
Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical (2016), 236, pp. 988–996; doi:10.1016/j.snb.2016.04.064

Our EU project SENSIndoor has published its second newsletter and the movie clip describing the project approach and especially the novel integrated micro sensor system with pre-concentrator.

The project’s end in December 2016 in sight, the SENSIndoor consortium has increased its dissemination activities. In addition to an overview over all project publications and comments from our project officer, the second newsletter highlights the project achievements in these areas:

• Pulsed Laser Deposition of Advanced Nanostructures for Gas Sensing Applications
• Operating Modes and Signal Processing
• Novel Micro Pre-concentrator
• Electronic Integration and Log-amplifier Read-out
• Calibration of Sensor Systems
• Interfacing activities

The SENSIndoor movie clip exemplifies some of the steps taken towards the development of a smart sensor system to measure indoor air quality. The clip highlights aspects of the work achieved in the project and introduces some of the partners involved. Animations have been added to explain the functionality and packaging process of the novel integrated micro gas sensor system, one of the highlight results of our project. The clip is available on the SENSIndoor website: www.sensindoor.lmt.uni-saarland.de/film.

The consortium is looking forward to share project results with the interested public, who is invited to join the meeting for a public session on 15 November, 14:00-18:00, and 16 November, 09:00-13:00. If you are interested in participating, you can find the draft agenda and register per e-mail here.

Our project SENSIndoor addresses the complete technology chain from material innovation and novel system integration to accurate and reliable sensor systems and advanced on-site calibration solutions. Further information can be found on the project website.

The study "Roadmap Towards European Leadership in Sensor Systems" elaborated by the European Sensor Systems Cluster (ESSC) is published.

This Survey by the European Sensor Systems Cluster (ESSC) of hot-topics related to Sensor Systems is a contribution to define PRIORITIES of a Roadmap for the European Commission (primarily DG Research & Innovation - Directorate Key Enabling Technologies - Unit Advanced Materials and Nanotechnologies, but also other units) useful to select topics for future H2020 Calls (2018-2020).

Requirements analysis of the European Industry (small medium enterprises, large companies) has been executed by the ESSC Steering Committee with support of the ESSC members by interviews (questionnaires, email, phone, telco, webpages, meetings, networking, etc.) in the period 2015 - 2016.

The Survey has been organized addressing two types of Topics: Specific Topics at High Priority for each surveyed industrial sector and Horizontal Topics of interest for several sectors with large industrial relevance and high socio-economic impact.

The ESSC key technological areas include:

• Environmental Sensors
• Indoor Air Quality Sensors
• Health Monitoring and Comfort Sensors
• Monitoring of Industrial Processes
• Commercialization

Our EU project SENSIndoor will present results at its final meeting in Saarbrücken, Germany, on November 15/16, 2016.

The project’s end in December 2016 in sight, the SENSIndoor consortium will meet a last time in Saarbrücken. Partners will present the project achievements but a major point on the agenda will also be the exploitation and market opportunities for the technology developed within SENSIndoor.

The consortium is looking forward to share project results with the interested public, who is invited to join the meeting for a public session on 15 November, 14:00-18:00, and 16 November, 09:00-13:00. If you are interested in participating, you can find the draft agenda and register per e-mail here.

Our project SENSIndoor addresses the complete technology chain from material innovation and novel system integration to accurate and reliable sensor systems and advanced on-site calibration solutions. Further information can be found on the project website.