Eye readable metal hydride based hydrogen tape sensor for health applications
Author(s) -
Peter Ngene,
Tsveta Radeva,
R.J. Westerwaal,
Herman Schreuders,
B. Dam
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
proceedings of spie, the international society for optical engineering/proceedings of spie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.192
H-Index - 176
eISSN - 1996-756X
pISSN - 0277-786X
DOI - 10.1117/12.2059835
Subject(s) - hydrogen , hydride , materials science , detector , optoelectronics , metal , optics , analytical chemistry (journal) , chemistry , physics , organic chemistry , metallurgy , chromatography
Using the change in the intrinsic optical properties of YMg-based thin films upon exposure to hydrogen, we observe the presence of hydrogen at concentrations as low as 20 ppm just by a change in color. The eye-visible color change circumvents the use of any electronics in this device, thereby making it an inexpensive H2 detector. The detector shows high selectivity towards H2 in H2-O2 - mixtures, and responds within 20 s to 0.25% H2 in the presence of 18% O2
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