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Sensors and Materials, Volume 23, Number 7 (2011)
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pp. 419-434
S&M856 Research Paper of Special Issue
https://doi.org/10.18494/SAM.2011.742
Published: October 20, 2011

MEMS Hydrogen Gas Sensor for the Entire Concentration Range of Hydrogen Gas [PDF]

Mitsuteru Kimura and Noriaki Takashima

(Received January 6, 2011; Accepted April 12, 2011)

Keywords: hydrogen sensor, MEMS, exothermic reaction, thermal conductivity, cantilever, SOI

We have proposed a new type of hydrogen gas sensor that is a combination of two types of hydrogen sensor, in which one is for a lower hydrogen gas concentration of less than 4% and the other is for a higher hydrogen gas concentration of more than 4%. The hydrogen gas sensor for low concentration works basically at room temperature based on the exothermic reaction of a Pd film formed on the cantilever and that for high concentration works during heating to about 150℃ as a thermal conductance-type sensor by using the high thermal conductivity of hydrogen gas. This hydrogen gas sensor with a cantilever as a sensing area is fabricated using micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) technology and silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate. A nichrome (NiCr) microheater and three thin-film thermocouples composed of an SOI layer of heavily doped n-type impurity and a Ni film layer are formed on the cantilever, and two areas, namely, a sensing area (region BS) with the Pd film and a reference area (region BR) without the Pd film, are formed with the same size in the vicinity of the tip of the cantilever. We have demonstrated that the proposed hydrogen gas sensor can measure hydrogen concentration at a very wide range from 0.1 to 100% within about 10 s.

Corresponding author: Mitsuteru Kimura


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Mitsuteru Kimura and Noriaki Takashima, MEMS Hydrogen Gas Sensor for the Entire Concentration Range of Hydrogen Gas, Sens. Mater., Vol. 23, No. 7, 2011, p. 419-434.



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