Xsense: using nanotechnology to combine detection methods for high sensitivity handheld explosives detectors |
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| Abstract | In an effort to produce a handheld explosives sensor the Xsense project has been initiated at the Technical University of Denmark in collaboration with a number of partners. Using micro- and nano technological approaches it will be attempted to integrate four detection principles into a single device. At the end of the project, the consortium aims at having delivered a sensor platform consisting of four independent detector principles capable of detecting concentrations of TNT at sub parts-per-billion (ppb) concentrations and with a false positive rate less than 1 parts-per-thousand. The specificity, sensitivity and reliability are ensured by the use of clever data processing , surface functionalisation and nanostructured sensors and sensor surfaces. |
| Keywords | Explosives detection, Surface enhanced Raman scattering spectroscopy, colorimetry, calorimetry, cantilever based sensor, TNT, DNT, data fusion |
| Type | Conference paper [With referee] |
| Conference | Detection and Sensing of Mines, Explosive Objects, and Obscured Targets XV |
| Editors | Russell S. Harmon and John H. Holloway and Jr. and J. Thomas Broach |
| Year | 2010 Month April Vol. 7664 No. 1 pp. 76641H |
| Publisher | SPIE |
| Note | doi = {10.1117/12.850219} |
| Electronic version(s) | [pdf] |
| Publication link | http://link.aip.org/link/?PSI/7664/76641H/1 |
| BibTeX data | [bibtex] |
| IMM Group(s) | Intelligent Signal Processing |