An integrated system comprising micro-heaters, sensors and microchannels has been realized on (1 1 0) silicon wafers, following CMOS compatible process steps.
The mechanical part consists of an assembly of electric and/or pneumatic, linear and/or circular actuators, power supplies, pumps, coolers, heaters, sensors for monitoring different parameters (such as temperature, pressure, flow, radioactivity) or any other physical device not in direct contact with chemicals.
The heater and sensor of the assembly were connected to the control ports assigned to detector B so that the temperature of the collection port could be controlled and monitored as "detector B".
That's the junction where the heater fluid sensor is located.
d Temperature decrease versus distance to the heater of sensors 4, 5, and 9 under seven different heating powers.
Now we give a brief analysis for the correlation between detected ΔT and the distance to the heater for sensors 4, 5, and 9.
Although integrated heater-based sensor design has several advantages, it may result in variation in piezoresistor properties due to temperature coefficient of piezoresistance, irreversible plastic deformation, and thermal drift in device output.
Even with a distance of more than 20 μm away from the heater, the sensors work well in detecting a weak temperature increase ΔT. Figure 6 shows the experimental results measured from a platform device.
He placed individual nanotubes in a test chamber, with each end of the tube bonded to silicon and platinum-based electrodes that act as either heaters or sensors.
These heaters and sensors were then moved to a low thermal conductivity epoxy-glass substrate for fabrication of the channel.
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