A sensor device and method to determine an amount of gas in the environment. The sensor device comprises at least one transducer. A sensing material (e.g., a metal-organic framework or a polymer film) is disposed on the transducer, and the sensing material captures an amount of the gas that depends on a temperature of the sensing material and a concentration or partial pressure of the gas. At least one detector or readout circuit is arranged to detect responses of the transducer as it captures gas in the sensing material and to output transducer measurement signals indicative of the responses of the transducer. At least one processor is arranged to process (e.g., demodulate) the transducer measurement signals according to the frequency of the temperature modulation. The processor determines the amount of gas according to the demodulated signals.
G01N 7/16 - Analyse des matériaux en mesurant la pression ou le volume d'un gaz ou d'une vapeur en permettant au matériau d'émettre un gaz ou une vapeur, p.ex. la vapeur d'eau, et en mesurant une différence de pression ou de volume en chauffant le matériau
G01N 27/04 - Recherche ou analyse des matériaux par l'emploi de moyens électriques, électrochimiques ou magnétiques en recherchant l'impédance en recherchant la résistance
G01N 29/32 - Dispositions pour supprimer des influences indésirables, p.ex. des variations de température ou de pression
G01N 7/02 - Analyse des matériaux en mesurant la pression ou le volume d'un gaz ou d'une vapeur par absorption, adsorption ou combustion des constituants et mesure de la variation de pression ou de volume du reste
G01N 27/22 - Recherche ou analyse des matériaux par l'emploi de moyens électriques, électrochimiques ou magnétiques en recherchant l'impédance en recherchant la capacité
G01N 33/00 - Recherche ou analyse des matériaux par des méthodes spécifiques non couvertes par les groupes
G01K 11/02 - Mesure de la température basée sur les variations physiques ou chimiques, n'entrant pas dans les groupes , , ou utilisant l'évaporation ou la sublimation, p.ex. en observant l'ébullition
A sensor device comprises at least one transducer and a sensing material disposed on the transducer. The sensing material adsorbs or absorbs an amount of analyte that depends on a temperature of the sensing material and a concentration of the analyte. The device also comprises a humidity sensor that is arranged to detect a humidity level of the environment or sample containing the analyte. A processor or controller is programmed to determine the quantity of the analyte by comparing values of the transducer measurement signals to reference data indicative of pre-measured responses of the transducer to known concentrations of the analyte at the same humidity level as indicated by the humidity sensor while the sensing material is subjected to the same or similar temperature profile.
G01N 5/02 - Analyse des matériaux par pesage, p.ex. pesage des fines particules séparées d'un gaz ou d'un liquide en absorbant ou adsorbant les constituants d'un matériau et en déterminant la variation de poids de l'adsorbant, p.ex. en déterminant la teneur en eau
G01N 7/04 - Analyse des matériaux en mesurant la pression ou le volume d'un gaz ou d'une vapeur par absorption, adsorption ou combustion des constituants et mesure de la variation de pression ou de volume du reste par absorption ou adsorption seules
3.
CRYSTALLINE FILM AND LIGHTING-EMITTING DEVICE HAVING ORIENTED LUMINESCENT EMITTERS
A film, and a light-emitting device (e.g., an OLED) incorporating the film as an emission layer, have luminescent emitters that are maintained in a desired orientation by incorporating them into a crystalline framework material, such as a metal-organic framework (MOF), covalent organic framework (COF), or porous coordination polymer. The crystal structure in the film has at least one crystallographic axis that is aligned substantially parallel to the planar surface of the film and/or the planar surface of a device substrate on which the film is deposited or grown. The luminescent emitters are held and oriented in the unit cells of the crystalline framework material such that their transition dipoles are substantially parallel to the crystallographic axis, which is in turn substantially parallel to the surface of the film or emission layer of the device through which light is emitted, resulting in improved outcoupling of light.
H01L 51/52 - Dispositifs à l'état solide qui utilisent des matériaux organiques comme partie active, ou qui utilisent comme partie active une combinaison de matériaux organiques et d'autres matériaux; Procédés ou appareils spécialement adaptés à la fabrication ou au traitement de tels dispositifs ou de leurs parties constitutives spécialement adaptés pour l'émission de lumière, p.ex. diodes émettrices de lumière organiques (OLED) ou dispositifs émetteurs de lumière à base de polymères (PLED) - Détails des dispositifs
A gas sensor comprises at least one transducer and a sensing material (e.g., a metal-organic framework) disposed on the transducer. The sensing material has a temperature-dependent gas sorption behavior. A detector is arranged to detect responses of the transducer to sorption and/or desorption of a target gas in the sensing material and to output transducer measurement signals indicative of the transducer responses. At least one thermal element changes the temperature of the sensing material by heating and/or cooling, and at least one temperature sensor (which may be integral with the thermal element) is arranged to measure a temperature of the sensing material. At least one processor determines the quantity (e.g., concentration, partial pressure, or mass) of the target gas according to the temperature of the sensing material at which the transducer measurement signals satisfy a signal value condition.
A device and method are provided for detecting analyte with correction for the effects of humidity. The device comprises a resonant sensor having an oscillating portion. A capacitor is positioned on the oscillating portion. The capacitor is formed by at least two electrodes and a sensing material positioned between the electrodes. A readout circuit is arranged to measure a response of the oscillating portion (e.g., frequency shift or change in resonance frequency, stiffness or strain) and a capacitance of the capacitor when substances are adsorbed or absorbed in the sensing material. This combination of measurements enables the device to distinguish between various types of adsorbed or absorbed molecules, especially distinguishing between an analyte of interest and water molecules that might interfere with the detection of the analyte. A processor determines an analyte value indicative of the presence, amount or concentration of the analyte in dependence upon measurements of both the response of the oscillating portion and the capacitance to account for the effects of water in the sensing material.
G01N 5/02 - Analyse des matériaux par pesage, p.ex. pesage des fines particules séparées d'un gaz ou d'un liquide en absorbant ou adsorbant les constituants d'un matériau et en déterminant la variation de poids de l'adsorbant, p.ex. en déterminant la teneur en eau
6.
LIQUID ANALYSIS USING CAPACITATIVE MICROMACHINED ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS
A method for analyzing liquid samples may comprise applying a liquid to a cMUT device having a plurality of sensors, drying the plurality of sensors, electronically detecting an agent bound to each of the plurality of sensors, wherein the electrical circuit provides a sensor output responsive to a mechanical resonance frequency of the sensor, wherein the mechanical resonance frequency of the sensor is responsive to the binding of an agent to the functionalized membrane, and determining the mass of the agent bound to each of the plurality of sensors.
brevets
