High-sensitivity micro-gas chromatography using stochastic injection techniques

Autor: C. Sutour, C. Kaiser, D. E. Angelescu, W. Cesar, F. Flourens
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: 2013 IEEE 26th International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS).
Popis: In this paper we report an improvement by an order of magnitude of the detection limit of micro gas chromatography systems through the use of m-sequence stochastic injection patterns. Using a sequence length of 127 and using a concentration level of 10 ppb for a BTEX mixture, we obtained an improvement by a factor of 9 in SNR, almost at the theoretical limit of 11 (~√(127)). We also successfully demonstrate that it is possible to simultaneously analyze multiple samples streams in parallel using a single micro-column and the proposed injection technique.
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