Document Type

Article

Language

eng

Format of Original

11 p.

Publication Date

5-2012

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Source Publication

IEEE Sensors Journal

Source ISSN

1530-437X

Original Item ID

doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2011.2163707

Abstract

The work presented in this paper focuses on the synthesis and characterization of a hybrid organic/inorganic chemically sensitive layer for rapid detection and analysis of OPs in aqueous solutions using SH-SAW devices. Coated SH-SAW devices on 36° YX-LiTaO and 42.75° YX-Quartz (ST-90° X Quartz), are used to determine the optimum operating conditions for achieving rapid sensor responses with high sensitivity. Three analytes (parathion-methyl, parathion, and paraoxon), having similar molecular mass and volume, are used to evaluate the performance of the hybrid organic/inorganic coating in terms of sensor properties of interest including sensitivity, selectivity, reproducibility. It is shown that the coating has a high degree of partial selectivity and sensitivity towards the analytes. With the present non-optimized chemical sensor, a limit of detection of 60 (ppb), 20 (ppb) and 100 (ppb) is estimated for parathion-methyl, parathion, and paraoxon, respectively, when using a 0.5 -thick BPA-HMTS sensing layer. Concentrations as low as 500 (ppb) parathion have been measured. This concentration is significantly much lower than the typical concentrations found on agricultural produce (≥10 ppm).

Comments

Accepted version. IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 12, No. 5 (May 2012): 893-903. DOI. © 2012 IEEE. Used with permission.

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