SBIR Phase I: Optical Based Chemical Sensing Using Luminescent Nanomaterials

这个小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第一阶段项目涉及开发纳米材料作为基于光学的化学传感器。这种创新的化学传感方法将利用材料的量子尺寸效应，例如增强的吸收和光致发光性能(敏感性)，高比表面积的分析传感(小型化)，以及易于合成制备(专一性)。基于光学的传感器的使用提供了额外的优势，如无电噪声、快速响应、易于小型化、安全接近易燃物、比电子学更耐用以及在遥感方面的应用。纳米材料的光学和电学性质的表征对于它们发展成为所建议的光学传感器阵列是至关重要的。这项研究也将有助于增加纳米材料的信息数据库，因为它们与先进的电子材料有关。该研究将为多分析光学传感器的研制奠定基础。这项技术一旦开发成功，将用于半导体制造业。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project involves the exploitation of nano-materials as optical based chemical sensors. This innovative approach to chemical sensing will take advantage of the material's quantum size effects, such as enhanced absorption and photoluminescence properties (sensitivity), high surface areas for analyze sensing (miniaturization), and ease of synthetic preparation (specificity). The use of optical based sensors provides additional advantages, such as no electrical noise, fast response, ease of miniaturization, safe near flammables, more durable than electronics, and applications to remote sensing. The characterization of the optical and electronic properties of the nanomaterials is critical to their development into the proposed optical sensor arrays.This research will also contribute to the increasing information database of nanomaterials as they pertain to advanced electronic materials. The research will lay the groundwork for fabricating multi-analyze optical sensors. The technology, once successfully developed, will be used the semiconductor manufacturing industry.