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A gas sensor system based on the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) effect in a 44 nm Au layer was studied. The usability of this sensor system was investigated for several analyte gases and gas mixtures which are interesting due to their flammability, toxicity or greenhouse effect. The SPR effect of gold was measured in nitrogen and compared with the gaseous alkane series which caused a shift of the position of the SPR effect. For in situ measurements, the phase shift Δ at the SPR angle (ψ minimum) in the analyte gas mixtures was measured for investigated gases in comparison with nitrogen. With this method, detection limits of different gases could be determined, which lie in a range interesting for safety engineering. Furthermore the aging effect of the gold layers which leads to loss in sensitivity of the sensor was investigated.
Gaswarnsysteme in der Sicherheitstechnik - Anforderungen an Messfunktion und funktionale Sicherheit
(2010)
An ellipsometric gas sensor based on the surface Plasmon resonance (SPR) effect of ~ 43 nm thick gold layers was investigated. To protect the gold layer from contamination and to improve the detection limits, the gold layers were top-coated with 5–6 nm thick layers of organic a-C:H or with inorganic metal oxides TiO2 or ZrO2. The additional layers increased the long-term stability, whereas the metal oxide layers protect better than a-C:H. Furthermore, the additional layers decreased the detection limits by one order of magnitude in case of a-C:H and two orders of magnitude in case of the oxides. It could be shown that the detection limits also depend on the kind of preparation (sol–gel process or physical vapour deposition) of the additional layers.
Gaswarnsysteme, aber auch einfachere Gaswarngeräte und -anlagen, finden in der Industrie breite Anwendung zur Gefahrenabwehr in explosionsgefährdeten Bereichen im Sinne der Richtlinie 94/9/EG (ATEX 95). Hierfür werden meist Geräte zur Konzentrationsmessung von brennbaren Gasen mit einem Messbereich von 0 % bis 100 % der jeweiligen UEG eingesetzt. Ziel ist die rechtzeitige und zuverlässige Warnung vor unzulässig hohen Brenngaskonzentrationen unter Betriebsbedingungen. Sauerstoffmessgeräte, die bestimmungsgemäß für die Überwachung von Inertisierungsmaßnahmen verwendet werden, unterliegen ebenfalls den besonderen Anforderungen der ATEX-Richtlinie.