207th ECS Meeting - Quebec City, Canada

May 15 - May 20, 2005

PROGRAM INFORMATION
 

AC1 - Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems- General Session

Sensor
 

Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Room 204A, Level 2, Quebec City Convention Center

Co-Chairs: S. Bhansali
TimeAbs#Title and Authors
10:00 1730 A New pH-sensor Based on Suspended-Polysilicon-Gate Transistors F. Bendriaa (IETR), F. Le Bihan, A. Salaun, T. Mohammed-Brahim and O. Bonnaud (GM-IETR, Rennes University, France)
10:20 1731 A Planar Electrochemical Methanol Sensor for Direct Methanol Fuel Cells S. Liang (National Tsing Hua University), P. Liu (Case Western Reserve University) and P. Tsai (National Tsing-Hua University)
10:40 1732 Selective Organic Vapor Detection Using Micro-Sensor Array of Various Ligand Protected Gold Nanoclusters C. Lu, C. Yang, C. Li and C. Cheng (Fu-Jen Catholic University)
11:00 1733 Sensitivity of Pyrrolopyrrole H2 Gas Sensors as Viewed from Crystal Structures J. Mizuguchi, T. Imoda, T. Hirota (Yokohama National University) and H. Takahashi (Toyo Ink Engineering Co. Ltd.)
11:20 1734 Hydrogen Gas Sensor Utiizing a High Proton Affinity of Pyrrolopyrrole Derivatives H. Takahashi (Toyo Ink Engineering Co. Ltd.), T. Imoda and J. Mizuguchi (Yokohama National University)
11:40 1735 An Electrochemical Sensor Complex to Determine Corrosive Conditions in Primary Cooling Water of Nuclear Power Plants S. Uchida, T. Satoh, T. Miyazawa, Y. Satoh (Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University) and Y. Wada (Power and Industrial Systems R&D Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.)
 
Co-Chairs: J.R. Stetter & M. Tabib-Azar
TimeAbs#Title and Authors
14:00 1736 Detecting Local Concentration and Mobility in Electrolytes by Measuring the Electric Field in Electrolytes E. Said, N. Robinson and M. Berggren (ITN)
14:20 1737 Electrocatalytic Oxidation of Sugars on Gold Single Crystal Ultramicroelectrodes M. Muzikar and W. Fawcett (UC Davis)
14:40 1738 Plasma Polymerized Hydrogel Thin Films for Applications in Sensors and Actuators P. Tamirisa and D. Hess (Georgia Institute of Technology)
15:00 1739 On a New Carbon Fiber Microelectrode PNVCZ film for Fabrication of Dopamine, Epinephrine, Histamine Biosensor E. Parlak, A. Sarac, K. Eryilmaz (ITU) and M. Ates (IRU)
15:20 Intermission (20 Minutes)
15:40 1740 Using Diamond-like Carbon to Sensing Dissolved Oxygen in Sea Water H. Chien, H. Chien and T. Chou (National Cheng Kung University)
16:00 1741 The Influence of Sensing Electrodes and the Electrode-Electrolyte Interface on the Sensing Characteristics of Zirconia-Based NOx Sensor M. Zhou (Materials Technology Lab) and A. Ahmad (Materials Technology Lab, NRCan)
16:20 1742 Conductometric CO2 Sensing Using BaTiO3-CuO Composite Thin Films Grown by Pulsed Laser Deposition J. Tunney (National Research Council of Canada), M. Kunkel, M. Post (National Research Council of Canada - ICPET), R. Srinivasan, D. Marcotte (National Research Council of Canada - IAR) and D. Segall (Armstrong Monitoring Corporation)
16:40 1743 New High-Temperature pH Sensing Electrodes Using Stabilized Zirconia Membrane Y. Jung, H. Lee, M. Yun, J. Yeon and W. Kim (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
17:00 1744 Application of Porous Nanocrysalline W-Sn-O Thin Film for NO Sensing S. Wang, L. Jheng, X. Wang and J. Du (I-Shou University)
17:20 1745 Nanocrystalline Thin Film Tin-Oxide Sensors Compatible With Post CMOS Processing B. Esfandyarpour and E. Asl Soleimani (University of Tehran)
17:40 1746 Optical Sensing of CO with Nanocomposite NiO and NiO/Au in Porous Silica Thin Films M. Post (National Research Council of Canada - ICPET), A. Martucci, D. Buso and M. Guglielmi (University of Padova)
 

Thursday, May 19, 2005

Room 204A, Level 2, Quebec City Convention Center

Co-Chairs: D. Makel & Z.P. Aguilar
TimeAbs#Title and Authors
08:00 1747 Nanoporous-Carbon SAW Coatings: Structure and Performance Compared to Polymers M. Siegal, W. Yelton, A. Staton and D. Overmyer (Sandia National Laboratories)
08:20 1748 Controlled Formation of Silicon Nanowire Arrays Y. Chang, S. Yi, J. Albuschies, E. Chow, G. Girolami and J. Amano (Agilent Technologies)
08:40 1749 Ionic Mercury Detection with Gold Nanowires S. Keebaugh, W. Nam, A. Kalkan and S. Fonash (The Pennsylvania State University)
09:00 1750 Monolayer Protected Nanoparticles as Vapor Sensor Array Interface Materials M. Rowe, W. Steinecker, Q. Zhong, H. Xu, L. Farina, C. Kurdak and E. Zellers (University of Michigan)
09:20 1751 Carbon Nanotube Based Chemical Sensors with Different Dopants for Hazardous Gas and Vapor Detection J. Li (Center for Nanotechnology), Y. Lu (Eloret Corporation at NASA Ames Research Center) and P. Young (Department of Chemistry, San Jose State University)
09:40 Intermission (20 Minutes)
10:00 1752 Miniature Multi-Channel High-sensitivity Implantable MEMS Pressure Sensor and CMOS Readout System Z. Hu, D. Yi (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), N. Islam, M. Alam, S. Islam (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), A. Choudhury (Georgia Institute of Technology) and T. Thundat (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
10:20 1753 Improving Chemiresistors by Magnetic Field Structuring J. Martin and R. Williamson (Sandia National Laboratories)
10:40 1754 Transient Sensors Concept A. Shapurko (Institute of Mechanical Engineering Problems) and R. Soltis (Ford Motor Company)
11:00 1755 Plastic Microcantilever Array Sensors L. Bottomley, M. Doyle, A. McFarland, M. Wright, J. Colton and M. Poggi (Georgia Institute of Technology)
11:20 1756 Evaluation of Oil Condition by an AC Impedance Method J. Li and C. Liu (Case Western Reserve University)
11:40 1757 Towards Non-Aqueous Chemistry and Interfacial Reactions via Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Propulsion W. Doherty, D. Arrigan (Tyndall National Institute) and J. West (INEX)
 
Co-Chairs: G. Hunter
TimeAbs#Title and Authors
14:00 1758 Active Pixel Sensor Array for Digital X-ray Imaging in a-Si:H Technology N. Safavian, J. Lai, A. Nathan and J. Rowlands (University of Waterloo)
14:20 1759 Spectroelectrochemical Characterization and Application of Multireflection IR-ATR Waveguides coated with IR-transparent Doped DLC Electrodes N. Menegazzo (Georgia Institute of Technology), W. Waldhauser (Joanneum Research) and B. Mizaikoff (Georgia Institute of Technology)
14:40 1760 Micro-Heat Generation for Chemical Reactions D. Briand (University of Neuchatel), J. Courbat (Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne), P. Pham and N. de Rooij (Institute of Microtechnology)
15:00 1761 A Laccase-Glucose Oxidase Biofuel Cell Prototype F. Barriere (Universite de Rennes I), P. Kavanagh and D. Leech (Nui Galway)
15:20 Intermission (20 Minutes)
15:40 1762 A Novel Normal-to-Plane Space Efficient Micro corner Cube Retroflector with Improved Full Factor R. Agarwal, S. Samson, S. Onishi and S. Bhansali (University of South Florida)
16:00 1763 3-D Chip Integration Technology for Microsystems A. Kaiser, A. Munding (University of Ulm), P. Benkart (Infineon Technologies AG), M. Bschorr (University of Ulm), A. Heittmann, H. Huebner (Infineon Technologies AG), H. Pfleiderer (University of Ulm), U. Ramacher (Infineon Technologies AG) and E. Kohn (University of Ulm)
16:20 1764 Actuation Properties of Polypyrrole Studied with a Micromechanical Cantilever-based Surface Stress Sensor V. Tabard-Cossa, M. Godin (McGill University), L. Beaulieu (Memorial University Department of Physics), B. Lennox (McGill University) and P. Grutter (McGill University Department of Physics)
16:40 1765 High Aspect Ratio Piezoelectric Bimorph Transducer J. Foster and R. White (University of California, Berkeley)
17:00 1766 High Aspect Ratio Piezoelectric Bimorph Transducer: Modeling J. Foster and R. White (University of California, Berkeley)
17:20 1767 Electrochemical Study of an Air Operating Actuator Based on Interpenetrating Polymer Networks Containing Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) and an Ionic Liquid H. Randriamahazaka, C. Pless, F. Vidal (University of Cergy-Pontoise), D. Teyssie (University of Cegy-Pontoise) and C. Chevrot (University of Cergy-Pontoise)
17:40 1768 Unusual Electromechanical Strains in Conjugated Polymer Diodes G. Dennler (LIOS), R. Schdiauer, S. Bauer (SOMAP Linz University), N. Sariciftci (Linz Institute for Organic Solar Cells (LIOS), Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) and H. Reiss (University of California in Los Angeles)