This paper presents a CMOS voltage controlled ring oscillator (VCO) with temperature compensation circuit suitable for low-cost and low-power MEMS gas sensor. This compensated ring oscillator is dedicated to Chopper Stabilized CMOS Amplifier (CHS-A). To operate at low frequency, a control voltage generated by a CMOS bandgap reference (BGR) is described and the measurement results of the fabrica...

The main results of the quality assurance tests performed on the Resistive Plate Chamber used by the ATLAS experiment at LHC as muon trigger chambers are reported and discussed. These are dark current, gas volume tomography, gas tightness, efficiency, and noise rate.

Nanocrystalline n-ZnO thin films were deposited on SiO2-coated (0.45 μm) p type Si substrates (10-20Ω-cm) by a low cost chemical deposition technique to fabricate ZnO-based resistive sensors for methane detection. The nanocrystalline ZnO needle like structures were grown on RCA cleaned p-Si<100> substrates by successive immersion (100-200 times) into a Sodium Zincate bath (0.125M) kept at room ...

Signals from resistive gas sensors based on zirconium dioxide and silicon–carbon films have been extensively investigated to estimate concentration. In this study, the change in normalized resistance of sensor’s response under NO2 exposure is shown analysis first second derivatives curves were carried out. A signal-processing scheme, reducing effect noise signal drift, proposed. The extreme der...

Quenching properties of gas mixture in a resistive plate chamber operated with streamer mode were investigated using optical image taken by the CCD camera and signal pulse waveform recorded by the digital oscilloscope. We have tested four quenching gases: C2H2F4, C2F6, CBrF3 and SF6. Streamer size, brightness and induced charge linearly depend on the ratio of Ar to quenching gas and their slope...