Senseiver Board Meeting

5th Supervisory Board / Network Management Board Meeting of Project Senseiver

location: Wieliczka, Poland
duration: 09/22/2013

The 5th Supervisory Board meeting was organized by Institute of Electron Technology. The meeting took place as the first event in a two-week block, so that participants could also attend IMAPS-CPMT 2013 conference or the summer school (both organized by ITE in Kraków). The event was attended by 16 representatives from 6 institutions (INESC, ITE, North Point, TES, TUW and UNS).

Meeting venue was in a historical salt mine in Wieliczka, near Kraków. It is one of the most valuable monuments in Poland, featuring among twelve objects on the UNESCO's World Cultural and Natural Heritage List. The event was preceded by the guided tour of mine, so the attendants could see few of the chambers chiselled out in stock salt (icluding the Chapel of St. Kinga), underground salt lakes, timber constructions and statuest sculped in salt. The sessions took place in Haluszka Chamber II located 135 meters underground, outside the tourist trail. Lunch was held in 19th century Warszawa Chamber, 125 meters underground.

Agenda
For the meeting agenda, see the attachment.

Content
The program was comprised of two sessions dedicated to administrative and technical issues. The session dedicated to reviewing ESR activities related to material development included presentations by ESRs from ITE and TUW. All of the researchers (ESRs and ER) hired in ITE in the Project presented results of their work.
The first presentation was by Ms. Katarina Cvejin (ITE) on the subject of perovskite gas sensors. In her work several tested lantanite-based compositions have been found to exhibit Nernstian response to changing oxygen concentration, which demonstrates that they are gas-sensitive. Later she measured their response to pollutants, such as toxic gases (CO, NO, etc.)
The second presentation was by Mr. Libu Manjakkal (ITE) on water monitoring sensors. It included overview of properties of metal-oxide-based sensors for pH, overview of production process in thick-film technology, microstructural (SEM, EDX), and potentiometric characteristics of two investigated materials and discussion of sensing properties. Both materials exhibit good linearity and stability.
The third presenter was Ms. Monika Zawadzka (ER, ITE). The topic of her presentation was polypyrrolebased sensors for toxic gas detection and it included: known properties of gas sensors based on conducting polymers, description of manufacturing process, results of SEM imaging, and sensor response to acetone, methanol and toluene. Response factor is influenced by polymerization time, substrate material (PET or alumina) and gas type.
The next speakers were Mr. Goran Miskovic (TUW) and Mr. Sasa Toskov (TUW). They were presenting first prototypes of gas sensors realized at TUW and impedimetric fluidic sensors.

Organizing Committee
Mgr inż. Krzysztof Zaraska
Mgr Monika Machnik

For more information, please see the project website.

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