High-Speed MEMS-Based Gas Chromatography
- 30 October 2006
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems
- Vol. 15 (5), 1371-1378
- https://doi.org/10.1109/jmems.2006.879708
Abstract
This paper reports microfabricated silicon-glass separation columns for high-speed micro gas chromatography (muGC) systems. The microfabricated columns are integrated with resistive heaters and temperatures sensors and capacitive pressure sensors to allow temperature and pressure programming and flow control and to achieve reproducible separations in a muGC system. These 25-cm-long, 150-mum-wide, and 250-mum-deep columns are fabricated on a 1.2-cm square die using a silicon-on-glass dissolved wafer process. Programmed with temperature ramps of 10 degC/s, the low-mass columns separate eleven-component gaseous mixtures in less than 10 s, including alkanes from C5 to C16 and simulants for C-4, TNT, sarin, and mustard gas. When used in arrayed architectures, these MEMS columns should allow high-speed analysis without sacrificing separation efficiencyKeywords
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