Smart Gas Sensors
Lead partner: Siemens
Technical goals
- Bringing together heterogeneous integration technologies developed in e-Brains to provide a platform for integrated photonic optical gas sensors with smart characteristics.
- Inclusion of nanotechnological sensing elements and data links for network formation.

Convential design (state-of-the-art)
Demonstrator & challenges
- Optical and mechanical coupling
- Sensor electronics integration
- Signal evaluation
- Selective as monitoring in industrial applications (gases like CO2, CO, Acetone, H2O, NO2)
- Monitoring of indoor air

MEMS integrated design (form factor: 1 cm3)