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Integrated CMOS Gas Sensors

Bhat, Navakanta and Jayaraman, Balaji and Pratap, Rudra and Bagga, Shobi and Mohan, S (2009) Integrated CMOS Gas Sensors. In: 2nd International Workshop on Electron Devices and Semiconductor Technology, JUN 01-02, 2009, Bombay, INDIA, pp. 31-35.

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Abstract

We present a low power gas sensor system on CMOS platform consisting of micromachined polysilicon microheater, temperature controller circuit, resistance readout circuit and SnO2 transducer film. The design criteria for different building blocks of the system is elaborated The microheaters are optimized for temperature uniformity as well as static and dynamic response. The electrical equivalent model for the microheater is derived by extracting thermal and mechanical poles through extensive laser doppler vibrometer measurements. The temperature controller and readout circuit are realized on 130nm CMOS technology The temperature controller re-uses the heater as a temperature sensor and controls the duty cycle of the waveform driving the gate of the power MOSFET which supplies heater current. The readout circuit, with subthreshold operation of the MOSFETs, is based oil resistance to time period conversion followed by frequency to digital converter Subthreshold operatin of MOSFETs coupled with sub-ranging technique, achieves ultra low power consumption with more than five orders of magnitude dynamic range RF sputtered SnO2 film is optimized for its microstructure to achive high sensitivity to sense LPG gas.

Item Type: Conference Paper
Publisher: IEEE
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Keywords: CMOS Gas Sensors; Polysilicon microheater; Subthreshold read-out; Temperature controller; SnO2
Department/Centre: Division of Electrical Sciences > Electrical Communication Engineering
Date Deposited: 02 Feb 2010 07:18
Last Modified: 19 Sep 2010 05:54
URI: http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/25495

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