Solid State Gas Sensors - Industrial Application (Springer Series on Chemical Sensors and Biosensors Book 11)

Gas sensor products are very often the key to innovations in the fields of comfort, security, health, environment, and energy savings. This compendium focuses on what the research community labels as solid state gas sensors, where a gas directly changes the electrical properties of a solid, serving as the primary signal for the transducer. It starts with a visionary approach to how life in future buildings can benefit from the power of gas sensors. The requirements for various applications, such as for example the automotive industry, are then discussed in several chapters. Further contributions highlight current trends in new sensing principles, such as the use of nanomaterials and how to use new sensing principles for innovative applications in e.g. meteorology. So as to bring together the views of all the different groups needed to produce new gas sensing applications, renowned industrial and academic representatives report on their experiences and expectations in research, applications and industrialisation. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Future Building Gas Sensing Applications....Pages 3-12 Requirements for Gas Sensors in Automotive Air Quality Applications....Pages 13-33 Automotive Hydrogen Sensors: Current and Future Requirements....Pages 35-38 Requirements for Fire Detectors....Pages 39-50 The Power of Nanomaterial Approaches in Gas Sensors....Pages 53-78 Theory and Application of Suspended Gate FET Gas Sensors....Pages 79-112 Chromium Titanium Oxide-Based Ammonia Sensors....Pages 113-135 Combined Humidity- and Temperature Sensor....Pages 139-149 Gas Sensor Investigations in Characterizing Textile Fibres....Pages 151-171 New Approaches for Exhaust Gas Sensing....Pages 173-188 Technology and Application Opportunities for SiC-FET Gas Sensors....Pages 189-214 Development of Planar Potentiometric Gas Sensors for Automotive Exhaust Application....Pages 215-254 Atmospheric Humidity Measurements Using Gas Sensors....Pages 255-264 Back Matter....Pages 265-269