Elsevier, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 1(132), p. 149-154, 2008
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2008.01.019
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In the present work, a silicon-based preconcentrator is proposed and developed, which consists of a spiral-shaped micro-preconcentrator followed by a μ-hotplate sensor matrix. The shape of the preconcentrator was chosen according to technological and gas-flow limitations as it is required that the whole gas flow passes through the adsorbent in order to obtain a good concentration factor. Therefore, a spiral-shaped configuration was adopted with a 10-cm length, and a width/depth of 300 μm. In this case, the carrier flow is high enough to avoid stagnation but provide a fast evacuation of the gas after applying a thermal desorption pulse. The proposed spiral μ-preconcentrator leads to a robust and highly integrated device able to be incorporated in a GC/MS-gas sensor system.