TY - BOOK AU - Comini,Elisabetta AU - Faglia,Guido AU - Sberveglieri,Giorgio ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Solid State Gas Sensing SN - 9780387096650 PY - 2009/// CY - Boston, MA PB - Springer US KW - CHEMISTRY KW - PARTICLES (NUCLEAR PHYSICS) KW - OPTICAL MATERIALS KW - NANOTECHNOLOGY KW - SOLID STATE PHYSICS AND SPECTROSCOPY KW - OPTICAL AND ELECTRONIC MATERIALS N1 - Micro-Fabrication of Gas Sensors -- Electrical-Based Gas Sensing -- Capacitive-Type Relative Humidity Sensor with Hydrophobic Polymer Films -- FET Gas-Sensing Mechanism, Experimental and Theoretical Studies -- Solid-State Electrochemical Gas Sensing -- Optical Gas Sensing -- Thermometric Gas Sensing -- Acoustic Wave Gas and Vapor Sensors -- Cantilever-Based Gas Sensing N2 - Solid State Gas Sensors offers insight into the principles, applications, and new trends in gas sensor technology. Developments in this field are rapidly advancing due to the recent and continuing impact of nanotechnology, and this book addresses the demand for small, reliable, inexpensive and portable systems for monitoring environmental concerns, indoor air quality, food quality, and many other specific applications. Working principles, including electrical, permittivity, field effect, electrochemical, optical, thermometric and mass (both quartz and cantilever types), are discussed, making the book valuable and accessible to a variety of researchers and engineers in the field of material science UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09665-0 ER -