Use of a multiplexed oscillator in a miniaturized electronic nose based on a multichannel quartz crystal microbalance

Zampetti, Emiliano; Pantalei, S.; Macagnano, Antonella; Proietti, Emanuela; Natale, Corrado Di; D’Amico, A.

doi:10.1016/j.snb.2007.12.011

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“…It can be easily envisioned that chip area, parasitic and power consumption will be reduced to a large extent by this fully integrated solution. Such a solution is very well suited for next-generation reconfigurable and multi-band wireless [19,20] applications. Indeed, further developments both at the circuit design and resonator levels need to be made to match the phase noise performance of state-of-the-art SAW oscillators [21].…”

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Multi-frequency pierce oscillators based on piezoelectric AlN contour-mode MEMS resonators

Zuo

Sinha

Spiegel

et al. 2008

2008 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium

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This paper reports on the first demonstration of multi-frequency (176, 222, 307, and 482 MHz) oscillators based on piezoelectric AlN contour-mode MEMS resonators. All the oscillators show phase noise values between -88 and -68 dBc/Hz at 1 kHz offset and phase noise floors as low as -160 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset. The same Pierce circuit design is employed to sustain oscillations at the 4 different frequencies, while the oscillator core consumes at most 10 mW. The AlN resonators are currently wirebonded to the integrated circuit realized in the AMIS 0.5 μm 5 V CMOS process. This work constitutes a substantial step forward towards the demonstration of a single-chip multi-frequency reconfigurable timing solution that could be used in wireless communications and sensing applications. This material is posted here with permission of the IEEE. Such permission of the IEEE does not in any way imply IEEE endorsement of any of the University of Pennsylvania's products or services. Internal or personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution must be obtained from the IEEE by writing to pubs-permissions@ieee.org. By choosing to view this document, you agree to all provisions of the copyright laws protecting it.

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Multi-frequency pierce oscillators based on piezoelectric AlN contour-mode MEMS resonators

Zuo

Sinha

Spiegel

et al. 2008

2008 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium

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“…In spite of their high sensitivity to water, conducting polymers (CP) have also been successfully used in resistive sensors dedicated to analyzing wines (Pinheiro et al, 2005; Zoecklein et al, 2011). Arrays of optical sensors (Elosua et al, 2012), quartz microbalance (QMB) sensors (Di Natale et al, 2004; Zampetti et al, 2008), and surface acoustic wave sensors (SAW) (García et al, 2006) have also been successfully used for wine analysis.…”

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Electronic Noses and Tongues in Wine Industry

Rodrı́guez-Méndez

Saja

Gonzalez-Anton

et al. 2016

Front. Bioeng. Biotechnol.

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The quality of wines is usually evaluated by a sensory panel formed of trained experts or traditional chemical analysis. Over the last few decades, electronic noses (e-noses) and electronic tongues have been developed to determine the quality of foods and beverages. They consist of arrays of sensors with cross-sensitivity, combined with pattern recognition software, which provide a fingerprint of the samples that can be used to discriminate or classify the samples. This holistic approach is inspired by the method used in mammals to recognize food through their senses. They have been widely applied to the analysis of wines, including quality control, aging control, or the detection of fraudulence, among others. In this paper, the current status of research and development in the field of e-noses and tongues applied to the analysis of wines is reviewed. Their potential applications in the wine industry are described. The review ends with a final comment about expected future developments.

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“…It would be ideal to identify a family of CIMs that are based on the same chemistry so that the manufacturing complexity of the sensor array is drastically reduced (no need to use multiple steps or tools for the device functionalization), but still a certain degree of differentiation in the affinity to various gas species is provided. The advantage of using small size devices mainly consists in the fact that a large array (> 100) of resonators can be packed in a very small surface area, approximately 1,000 times less than what is conventionally occupied by an array of 8 QCMs [2]. A large array makes possible the utilization of redundancy as an additional parameter in setting the sensor selectivity, therefore reducing the requirements on the CIM.…”

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“…The miniaturized nature and integrability with Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) electronics of NanoElectroMechanical Systems (NEMS) resonators renders them more attractive than commercially available gravimetric sensors such as Quartz Crystals Microbalances (QCM) [1,2] and Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) [3] devices for the manufacturing of large arrays of gas detectors.…”

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Nanoscaled piezoelectric aluminum nitride contour-mode resonant sensors

2010

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This paper reports on a new class of nanoscaled piezoelectric aluminum nitride contour-mode resonant sensors (CMR-S) that have been developed for the gravimetric detection of volatile organic chemicals (VOC). The use of the CMR-S and its scaling for the making of large arrays of detectors is justified in terms of the superior sensitivity and limit of detection (LOD ~ zg/μm 2 ) that this technology attains with respect to any other available acoustic device. The choice of a novel functionalization layer based on ss-DNA is introduced as an effective way to selectively detect multiple VOCs without altering the electromechanical characteristics of the resonator. Experimental results confirming the advantages of scaling the device dimensions and its frequency of operation in terms of improved LOD and measurement speed are presented. Furthermore, preliminary data showing selective detection of dymethyl-methylphosphonate (DMMP) and dinitroluene (DNT) (with LOD in the order of ppt) are reported. Disciplines Electrical and Computer Engineering | Engineering CommentsSuggested Citation: Piazza, Gianluca; Rinaldi, Matteo; Zuniga, Chiara; , "Nanoscaled piezoelectric aluminum nitride contourmode resonant sensors," Sensors, 2010 IEEE , vol., no., pp.2202-2207, 1-4 Nov. 2010. ©2010 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE.

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Use of a multiplexed oscillator in a miniaturized electronic nose based on a multichannel quartz crystal microbalance

Cited by 35 publications

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Multi-frequency pierce oscillators based on piezoelectric AlN contour-mode MEMS resonators

Multi-frequency pierce oscillators based on piezoelectric AlN contour-mode MEMS resonators

Electronic Noses and Tongues in Wine Industry

Nanoscaled piezoelectric aluminum nitride contour-mode resonant sensors

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