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Xsense: Using nanotechnology to combine detection methods for high sensitivity handheld explosives detectors

  • Michael S. Schmidt
  • , Natalie Kostesha
  • , Filippo Bosco
  • , Jesper K. Olsen
  • , Carsten Johnsen
  • , Kent A. Nielsen
  • , Jan O. Jeppesen
  • , Tommy S. Alstrøm
  • , Jan Larsen
  • , Mogens H. Jakobsen
  • , Thomas Thundat
  • , Anja Boisen

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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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDetection and Sensing of Mines, Explosive Objects, and Obscured Targets XV
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
EventDetection and Sensing of Mines, Explosive Objects, and Obscured Targets XV - Orlando, FL, United States
Duration: Apr 5 2010Apr 9 2010

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume7664

Conference

ConferenceDetection and Sensing of Mines, Explosive Objects, and Obscured Targets XV
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityOrlando, FL
Period04/5/1004/9/10

Keywords

  • DNT
  • Explosives detection
  • Surface enhanced Raman scattering spectroscopy
  • TNT
  • calorimetry
  • cantilever based sensor
  • colorimetry
  • data fusion

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