WO2016008660A1 - Prekonzentrator zum adsorbieren und/oder desorbieren wenigstens einer komponente eines gases - Google Patents
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- Such gas components can be, for example, toxic gases in ambient air or evaporated explosive quantities which are to be measured during explosive substance detection.
- An important measure of the detected sizes so the nachzuwei ⁇ send gas components is their concentration. For many substances to be detected, however, the concentration is near or below the resolution limit of current detector systems.
- the temperature of the collector corresponds to at most the room temperature. Thereafter, the gas collection tube is heated rapidly and flushed with a gentle gas flow, whereby the rapidly desorbing gas can be fed concentrated to a measuring device, for example a sensor or a gas chromatograph.
- a measuring device for example a sensor or a gas chromatograph.
- Micromechanical structures comprise an etched channel plate or a structure which, for example, a rough may have upper ⁇ surface.
- the etched channel or plate structure may be coated with an adsorbent material.
- the microscopic assemblies of the prior art have the disadvantage that the surface of the micromechanical ⁇ African structures and thus their collection capacity are small. To increase the collection capacity of the microscopic structures, a certain length must be maintained in the etched channel or plate structure in the gas flow direction. This results in the disadvantage that during the desorption process, retention or gas separation effects occur, as in a gas chromatograph, so that the gas can not be used completely for a sudden change in concentration in the form of flow injection.
- micro-preconcentrators which have a large number of three-dimensional microcolumns. Although these micro-columns have a greater surface area and therefore a greater collection capacity than the etched channel or plate Struk ⁇ ture, but the micro-columns are usually unstable.
- the microstructure according to the invention serves for adsorbing and / or desorbing at least one gas component of a gas supplied to the microstructure and comprises a semiconductor substrate having a bottom side and a top side.
- the microstructure also includes a plurality of micro-channels, which the underside of the micro-structure, each extending from the bottom to the top of the semiconductor substrate, and therefore on the top side of the micro ⁇ structure, wherein a surface of the respective micro-channels for adsorbing and / or desorbing the at least one gas component is formed when flowing through the gas through the respective microchannels.
- Such a gas component may comprise, for example, toxic gas molecules in air or molecules of a volatile component in respiratory air ⁇ a human.
- the preconcentrator can also be used in liquids, thereby adsorbing and / or desorbing components of a liquid flowing through the microchannels.
- silicon may be used as the semiconductor substrate.
- This semiconductor material can also called micropores with a large An ⁇ number of microchannels are interspersed. Characterized a high-density array of micro channels is formed, each of said micro-channels produces a continuous Ver ⁇ bond from the top surface of the semiconductor substrate to the lower ⁇ side of the semiconductor substrate.
- the microchannels can be arranged parallel to each other in a periodic order. Thus, it is possible for a gas to flow from the top of the semiconductor substrate through the microchannels to the bottom of the semiconductor substrate, for example.
- a gas component may comprise at least adhere to the surface of the respective micro-channels.
- this extremely increased surface area to accommo ⁇ re detection limit can be used for the concentration of the at least one gas component, so the number of molecules of at least one gas component to be moved about two orders of magnitude.
- the surface of the respective microchannels is formed by a surface structure of the respective microchannels on its inner wall.
- a surface structure may be formed on the inner wall of the microchannels, to which the components of the supplied gas and / or the supplied liquid can be bound particularly well.
- the surface of the respective microchannels is formed by a coating which is applied to an inner wall of the respective microchannels.
- coatings which are also referred to as adsorbents, may be, for example, porous polymers such as Tenax® TA, which in their approximately 0.2 micrometer-sized pores, for example, can collect all types of gases in the air.
- Further suitable coating materials are, for example, Carboxes®, silica gel, crystalline materials (MOFs) or zeolites. These materials are considered particularly powerful Adsorben ⁇ tien since they have particularly good adhesion properties for play, in ⁇ gas components and can bind in a particularly advantageous manner gas components.
- the coating can be realized for example by vapor deposition of the adsorbents on the inner walls of the microchannels.
- the microstructure has a tempering element for tempering the semiconductor substrate.
- the temperature- may be the Mik ⁇ ro Modell, in particular, the semiconductor substrate is heated and / or cooled.
- the semiconductor substrate is heated and / or cooled.
- cooling the semiconductor substrate for example by a thermoelectric Peltier cooler, the adsorption of the at least one gas component can be multiplied.
- heating of the semiconductor substrate can be made possible by means of the tempering element.
- it can accumulate on the surface of the microchannels Molecules is to be placed at least one gas component suddenly released ⁇ , thus desorbed. Thus takes place near ⁇ ren surrounding the structure enrichment of concentration many times.
- a preconcentrator which is made, for example, from silicon, allows desorption temperatures of up to 800 ° C., in particular up to 900 ° C. Due to the good thermal conductivity of the silicon and by the Substituted ⁇ staltung of Prekonzentrators as a microstructure which has a very low mass, very fast AufMapi- to ten, for example in the range of 10 to 100 milliseconds, at a very low energy consumption, for example in the range from 10 to 100 milliwatts.
- the tempering element is arranged on the upper side of the semiconductor substrate.
- a heating element can for example be brought meandering form on the surface of the semiconductor substrate on ⁇ for heating the microstructure.
- the tempering element can also be designed as a heat-conductive layer.
- the temperature control element can particularly space-saving in the microstructure inte ⁇ grated be.
- the tempering element preferably has a plurality of passage openings which correspond to the microchannels and are arranged in alignment with the respective microchannels.
- ⁇ of the microchannels has an opening, for example, on the top side of the semiconductor substrate, through which the gas can enter the microchannels, and an opening at ⁇ play, on the underside of the semiconductor substrate, through which may escape the gas.
- the temperature-that is, for example, arranged on top of the Halbleitersub ⁇ strats, it may be configured so that it does not cover the openings of the micro-channels on the upper surface of the semi-conductor substrate ⁇ or closes.
- the tempering element may have a plurality of passage openings, which may lie congruently on the openings of the microchannels on the upper side of the semiconductor substrate. So ⁇ with, all arranged in the semiconductor substrate micro- channels are used for adsorbing and / or desorbing a gas component of a gas supplied to the microstructure.
- the microstructure has at least one thermal guide element which extends from the upper side to the lower side of the semiconductor substrate.
- the at least one thermal guide element can therefore be integrated into the preconcentrator in a particularly space-saving manner.
- the microchannels are arranged in a first region of the semiconductor substrate and arranged at least one guide element in a specific thermi ⁇ Various ⁇ nen from the first region second region of the semiconductor substrate.
- the at least one thermal guide element which can be coupled to an external heat source, for example, can serve for heat conduction.
- the at least one thermal guide element can be arranged in an edge region of the microstructure. Due to the spatial separation of the at least one thermal guide element and the microchannels, the microchannels can be used fully ⁇ constantly for adsorbing and / or desorbing the at least one gas component.
- the at least one ther ⁇ mixing guide element is thermally gekop ⁇ pelt with the tempering. Characterized in that the at least one thermal guide element extends from the top to the bottom of the semiconductor ⁇ substrate and thereby thermally with the
- Tempering element is coupled, the microstructure can be tempered in a particularly simple manner.
- a device may for example also ⁇ play at the bottom of the micro structure are mounted, which via the feeds the temperature-conducting element, at least one thermal energy for heating and / or cooling the semiconductor substrate.
- each of the microchannels has a length of greater than 100 microns and / or a diameter of less than 20 microns. Due to the great length of the micro-channels have a particularly large surface area of the Mikroka ⁇ ducts and thus a particularly high collection capacity of the micro ⁇ channels can be realized. Due to the small micro-channel diameter, a particularly large number of microchannels can be arranged in the semiconductor substrate.
- the invention also relates to a method for producing a microstructure.
- the method includes providing the semiconductor substrate and inserting the plurality of
- Micro channels into the semiconductor substrate by means of an electro ⁇ chemical etching process As the semiconductor substrate at ⁇ a silicon wafer can be used as play, which is patterned by the etching method.
- the electrochemical etching process PAECE Photo Assisted Electrochemical Etching
- the structure produced by means of PAECE has an extremely high surface area, so that even under certain circumstances the use of an adsorbent, that is to say of an adsorption material, can be dispensed with. But the upper ⁇ surface of the microchannels may also be coated with an adsorption material ⁇ .
- the highly parallelized operation ie for example the through ⁇ of the gas flow through a high number of parallel angeord- Neten microchannels avoided long gas paths.
- the invention also includes an apparatus for detecting at least one gas component with a microstructure and an nem gas sensor having a sensor surface for measuring a concentration of the at least one gas component, wherein the microstructure and the gas sensor are arranged to each other such that the sensor surface of the gas sensor faces the underside of the microstructure.
- the preconcentrator is thus mounted in the shortest possible distance to the sensor surface, ie to the active layer of the gas sensor.
- the gas ⁇ sensor can be designed for example as a so-called gas-FET. The device can thus be realized in a particularly space-saving and compact.
- the device has a micropump, which is arranged in such a way to the microstructure, that the micropump facing the top of the microstructure, so that a flow of gas through the microchannels out ⁇ through from the top to the bottom of the microstructure.
- the gas sensor, the preconcentrator and the micropump are arranged one above the other in the vertical direction.
- the micropump the gas with the at least one gas component is supplied to the microstructure via the microchannels.
- the at least one gas component is adsorbed to the surface of the inner walls of the microchannels.
- the Prekonzentrator thus "collects" the molecules of at least ei ⁇ nen gas component.
- the apparatus comprises a means for loading ⁇ riding provide thermal energy, which is so arranged to the microstructure, that the device is thermally coupled to the thermal conducting element.
- the tempering of the microstructure can be tempered, that is heated and / or cooled. Due to the thermal guide element, the device for providing thermal energy can be arranged in a particularly space-saving manner within the device.
- the molecules of a gas com- component, which have accumulated on the surface flows through the micro-channels can be desorbed by, for example, a heating energy is supplied to the temperature-regulating means of the device for providing Stel ⁇ len of thermal energy.
- the gas sensor in particular its Sensorflä ⁇ che it is facing the bottom of the microstructure and thus is in close proximity to the Prekonzen- trator.
- the molecules can at least components abruptly solve one Gaskompo- and, for example, fall on the sensor ⁇ surface.
- the gas sensor can measure the concentration of the at least one gas component on the sensor surface. Thus concentrations can be detected by means of the preconcentrator, which would be below the detection limit without the preconcentrator, ie would not be detectable.
- the invention also includes a method of operating a device.
- the method comprises passing a gas into the microchannels of the microstructure for the adsorption of at least one contained in the gas the gas component to a surface of the microchannels and the heating of the microstructures ⁇ structure for desorption of the at least one gas component and for supplying the at least one desorbed gas component to a gas sensor for measuring the concentration of the at least one gas component in the supplied gas.
- FIG. 1 shows a schematic representation of an embodiment of the device according to the invention with an inventive microstructure according to the invention, a gas sensor and a tempering;
- FIG. 2 shows a perspective view of the embodiment of the device from FIG. 1;
- FIG 3 is a schematic representation of a further From ⁇ guide of the apparatus according to the invention with an inventive microstructure, a gas sensor and a temperature-regulating element;
- FIG. 4 shows a schematic representation of the operation of a further embodiment of the device according to the invention with a structure according to the invention, a gas sensor, a tempering element and a micro-pump.
- FIG. 1 shows a device 10 for detecting at least one gas component of a gas.
- the device 10 comprises a microstructure 12 and a gas sensor 24.
- the microstructure 12 serves as a so-called preconcentrator for adsorption
- the microstructure 12 is made of a semiconductor substrate 14, for example silicon.
- the microstructure 12 has a lower side 16 and an upper side 18. Zusharm ⁇ Lich, the microstructure 12 in a first region Rl a plurality, that is an array of parallel, especially arranged periodically microchannels 20.
- the microchannels 20 extend from the lower side 16 to the upper side 18 of the microstructure 12.
- a gas can enter at openings of the microchannels 20 on the upper side 18 of the microstructure 12, which flow through microchannels 20 and at the lower side 16 of the microstructure 12 through openings exit the microstructure again.
- the micro-channels 20 have a surface 22 on which the at least one Gaskompo ⁇ component of the flowing gas can be adsorbed. In this case, the surface 22 through the inner walls of the microchannels
- the Be ⁇ coating may comprise an adsorbent material and thus improve the adhesion properties of the surface 22 for the at least one gas component of the gas flowing through.
- the microstructure 12 is arranged here in the vertical direction above the gas sensor 24.
- the gas sensor 24 which has a sensor surface 26 and an electrical contact 28, is fastened on a carrier element 30.
- the micro ⁇ structure 12 is arranged in the vertical direction across the gas sensor 24, the sensor surface 26 facing the bottom 16 of the microstructure 12th
- the microstructure 12 is connected to the carrier element 30 by means of a connecting element 32.
- the tempering element 34 may be designed, for example, as a heating device or as a thermally conductive layer.
- the tempering element 34 can be thermally coupled to the tempering element 34 by means of a thermal guide element 36.
- the thermal Leitele ⁇ ment 36 extends from the top 18 to the bottom 16 in a second region R2 of the microstructure 12, wherein the second region R2 is formed here as the outer edge of the microstructure 12.
- the thermal conductive element 36 is coupled to the connecting element Ver ⁇ 32nd
- the connecting element 32 is designed here as an electrical contact.
- FIG. 2 shows the device 10 according to the invention from FIG. 1 in a perspective view. Here is shown that the
- Tempering element 34 has passage openings 38. These lie congruently on the openings of the microchannels 20 on the upper side 18 of the microstructure 12. Thus, the openings on the upper side 18 of the microstructure 12 are not covered by the tempering element 34 and / or closed. Thus, each of the microchannels 20 can be flowed through by the gas and used for adsorption and / or desorption of the at least one gas component.
- the passage ⁇ openings 38 and the openings of the micro-channels 20 may, for example a round, an oval, a rectangular or a square cross section.
- FIG. 3 shows a further embodiment of the device 10 according to the invention.
- the gas sensor 24 is fastened on the carrier element 30.
- the microstructure 12 is here disposed over the gas sensor 24 in Vertika ⁇ ler direction.
- the microstructure 12 is connected to the carrier element 30 via a device 40 for providing thermal energy.
- the tempering element 34 is designed here as a thermally conductive layer.
- the tempering element 34 is thermally coupled by means of the thermal guide elements 36 to the means 40 for providing thermal energy.
- the temperature control element 34 via the thermal Guide elements 36 thermal energy for heating and / or cooling of the microstructure 12 are supplied.
- the energy for heating can also be supplied by means of electromagnetic radiation. This may be, for example, thermal radiation (infrared), optical light, microwave radiation or inductive heating by alternating current.
- the device 40 may be formed, for example, as a Peltier heating and cooling system (in a non-specifically illustrated embodiment, which otherwise corresponds to the illustrated embodiment, the are supplied energy for heating by means of electromagnetic radiation: this electromagnetic Strah ⁇ lung may, for example, thermal radiation (IR), optical, light, microwave radiation or inductive heating by alternating current to be).
- FIG 4 shows a further embodiment of the invention shown SEN device 10 in operation.
- the invention Vorrich ⁇ tung 10 comprises the microstructure 12, the gas sensor 24 and a micro-pump 42, in which case the gas sensor 24, the microstructure 12 and the micropump 42 are arranged in the vertical direction about each other.
- the microstructure 12 is here connected to the carrier element 30 via the device 40 for providing thermal energy.
- the sensor surface 26 of the gas sensor 24, which is arranged on the carrier element 24, is the underside 16 of the microstructure 12 supplied ⁇ .
- the micropump 42 is connected to the microstructure 12 via a connecting element 32 so that the upper side 18 of the microstructure 12 faces the micropump 42.
- the micropump 42 is designed to supply a gas whose flow direction is shown here via arrows 44 to the microstructure 12, in particular the microchannels 20.
- the gas which has at least one gas to be measured component enters the micro-channels 20 through the openings of the micro-channels on the upper surface 18 of the microstructure 12, flows through the microchannels 20 and exits the microchannels 20 through the Publ ⁇ voltages of the micro-channels 20 on the underside 16 of the Microstructure 12.
- the gas components contained in the gas in particular molecules of the gas component, are absorbed by the surface 22 of the microchannels 20.
- the temperature control element 34 can be supplied with energy for cooling the microstructure 12 in order to increase the adsorption rate.
- the number of molecules adsorbed on the surface 22 is increased.
- the gas can flow through the microstructure 12, for example in a predetermined period of time. In this period of time, a certain number of molecules, that is to say a specific concentration of the at least one gas component, are adsorbed on the surface 22 of the microchannels 20.
- the microstructure 12 can be heated by means of the device 40 for providing the thermal energy.
- the tempering can be supplied to the heating energy on the thermal guide elements 36 by means of a ⁇ direction 40 34th
- the temperature-34 is constructed as a heat conductive layer here, which is arranged on the semiconducting ⁇ tersubstrat 14, for example silicon.
- the heat also propagates in the semiconductor substrate 14, whereby the semiconductor substrate 14 is heated.
- the heating process can be carried out in a short period of time, in particular between 10 and 100 milliseconds. Through this rapid heating the stored gas, thus adhering to the Oberflä ⁇ che 22 molecules of at least one gas component can be abruptly released.
- the gas components can fall on the sensor surface 26 of the gas sensor 24, which is suitably arranged in the vicinity.
- the gas sensor 24 is configured to measure the concentration of the desorbed gas component.
- the embodiment shows a more sensitive gas detection by means of a preconcentrator.
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