CMOS Monolithic Electrochemical Gas Sensor Microsystem Using Room Temperature Ionic Liquid

Overview

Journal IEEE Sens J

Date 2019 Apr 2

PMID 30930698

Citations 7

Authors

Heyu Yin

Xiaoyi Mu

Haitao Li

Xiaowen Liu

Andrew J Mason

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Abstract

The growing demand for personal healthcare monitoring requires a challenging combination of performance, size, power, and cost that is difficult to achieve with existing gas sensor technologies. This paper presents a new CMOS monolithic gas sensor microsystem that meets these requirements through a unique combination of electrochemical readout circuits, post-CMOS planar electrodes, and room temperature ionic liquid (RTIL) sensing materials. The architecture and design of the CMOS-RTIL-based monolithic gas sensor are described. The monolithic device occupies less than 0.5mm per sensing channel and incorporates electrochemical biasing and readout functions with only 1.4mW of power consumption. Oxygen was tested as an example gas, and results show that the microsystem demonstrates a highly linear response (R = 0.995) over a 0 - 21% oxygen concentration range, with a limit of detection of 0.06% and a 1 second response time. Monolithic integration reduces manufacturing cost and is demonstrated to improve limits of detection by a factor of five compared to a hybrid implementation. The combined characteristics of this device offer an ideal platform for portable/wearable gas sensing in applications such as air pollutant monitoring.

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