SBIR Phase I: Novel High Performance, Low Cost Gas Sensor Platform

这个小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第一阶段研究项目将优化新型厚膜材料和低成本丝网印刷工艺，以创造出比竞争技术便宜得多的高性能、选择性气体传感器。目前还没有稳定、快速响应的半导体气体传感器表现出更好的选择性，并且制造成本低廉。这项研究旨在通过证明高性能传感器平台可以使用成熟的、廉价的丝网印刷技术及其专有的纳米碳热扩散油墨系统来解决这一问题。先进的低热质量平台将被创造出来，使坚固的气体传感器能够快速响应，使用非常少的电力，并通过温度编程调制实现更高的选择性和稳定性。这些创新的高性能气体传感器可能对环境、健康、安全和节能产生重要的广泛影响。健康和安全益处的具体例子包括快速检测危险的易燃和有毒气体，以及用于检测化学战剂的低成本便携式传感器。可以显著提高效率和环境补救措施的例子包括节能的工业流程优化、利用联网阵列进行污染监测，以及限制或控制烟雾和环境污染物暴露的系统。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 1 research project will optimize novel thick film materials and low cost screen-printing processes to create high performance, selective gas sensors that are significantly less expensive than competing technologies. Currently there are no stable, rapid responding semiconductor gas sensors that exhibit improved selectivity and that are inexpensive to manufacture. This research intends to solve this problem by demonstrating that high performance sensor platforms can be fabricated using well-developed, inexpensive screen-printing techniques and its proprietary, NanoCarbon thermally fugitive ink systems. Advanced, low thermal mass platforms will be created that enable robust gas sensors to respond rapidly, use very little power, and achieve improved selectivity and stability through temperature-programmed modulation. These innovative high performance gas sensors could have important broad impacts on the environment, health, safety and energy conservation. Specific examples of health and safety benefits include rapid detection of dangerous flammable and toxic gases, and low-cost portable sensors for detection of chemical warfare agents. Examples where efficiency and environmental remediation could be significantly improved include industrial process optimization for energy conservation, pollution monitoring with networked arrays, and systems that limit or control exposure to smog and environmental pollutants.