A gas sensor (1) has a gas-sensitive layer (7) with a surface area (9) where the electron affinity depends on the concentration of a target gas brought in contact with the surface area (9). An electrical potential sensor (27) is capacitively coupled to the surface area (9) via an air gap (8). The surface area (9)...

Circuit Arrangement, Apparatus and Process for the Serial Sending of Data via a Connection Contact The invention relates to an integrated circuit arrangement (J) with connection contacts (SO, SDAT) for the serial exchange of data and/or signals with external components and apparatuses (C) and with a control apparat...

The invention relates lo a support element (10, 20, 30, 30') for use in the analysis of substances to be analyzed lo which, in al least two defined areas (11, 21, 31, 3D, biological and/or chemical substances (A to I) are applied and which comprises a code (12, 32, 32') indicating which biological and/or chemical su...

A circuit configuration with serial test interface or serial" test operating procedures The invention relates to a circuit configuration with a serial test interface (TIF) to control a test operation mode, a freely programmable digital processor (CPU), a housing (G) for the accommodation of a test interface (TIF) a...

An electric component (1) comprising a sensor and/or actuator chip with a substrate (2) on which a passivating layer (3) and senor and/or actuator structure consisting of an active surface area (5a,5b) is arranged. The chip is surrounded by an encapsulation (6) having an opening (7) which forms an access to the a...

The invention relates to a semiconductor arrangement and a method for fabricating such a semiconductor arrangement having at least two integrated circuits (IC1, IC2) arranged in a housing and electrically connected to one another via bond conductors (10). At least one of the bond conductors (10) has its first, prefe...

The invention relates to a chip having a memory (M) to store confidential data, a power supply device (FC) to apply a voltage and/or or a current, and an interface to transfer the data from and/or to another device. In order to secure the data in the memory, the power supply device (FC) is designed as an integrated ...

The Invention relates to a moisture sensor (1) which comprises a receiving area (4) on its surface for a moisture film (5a, 5b), the layer thickness (6a, 6b) of which is dependent on the relative humidity in the surrounding of the receiving area (4). The moisture sensor (1) has a signal source which is connected ...

The invention relates to a FET-bascd gas sensor, consisting of a gas-sensitive layer and a reference layer, whereby the work function modifications thereof control the field effect structures. The materials on both layers are adapted to each other such that work function modifications do not take place on the target...

The invention relates to sensors for detecting especially reducing gases, and to an associated production and operation "method. An FET-bascd gas sensor consists of at least one field effect transistor, and at least one gas-sensitive layer and a reference layer. According to the invention, the work function change...

In a method for transmitting data between at least two transmitters (3a, 3b) and a receiver (4), wherein the transmitters (3a, 3b) and the receiver (4) are connected to a bus (2), a synchronization signal is applied to the bus (2) and a number of data volume counters corresponding to the number of transmitters (3...

In a procedure for measuring the concentration of a target gas, a gas sensor (1) is provided whose sensor signal (20) at constant temperature is dependent on a target gas concentration (21) and has a lower measurement sensitivity in a first modulation range (29) than in a second modulation range (30). The position...

A device (1) for measuring an angle at which a magnetic field (B) is aligned in a plane (2) relative to a reference axis has at least two magnetic field sensors (2, 4) [sic], which are aligned with their measurement axes in and/or parallel to the plane (2) and oriented at right angles to each other. The device (1) h...

The invention relates to an error correction and/or error detection method for reading (3 - 5) of stored information data (D (8:1) from a storage device (M); wherein in addition to the information data (D(l :8), code data (C(4:l) is read from the storage device (M) and syndrome data (S(4:l) is formed from the inform...

The invention relates to a method for generating random numbers in which oscillating digital output signals (A1, A2,..., AL) of unequal or equal periodicity are generated by at least two ring oscillators (32, 33, 34), an external parity signal (PS) representing a logical state ("0," "1") being generated when an odd ...

A monolithic sensor arrangement includes a housing, a sensor integrated in the housing, and two or three connecting contacts deployed on the housing so as to provide a contact with the sensor. The housing also includes an integrated digital circuit includes a freely programmable digital processor, a program memory a...

Disclosed is u method for measuring gases in FBT-based gas sensors whose sensor signal is generated by modifying the work function on a sensitive layer, the change in capacity of the sensitive layer being evaluated in addition to reading out the modification of the work function.

The invention relates to a device for measuring living cells or similar biocomponents comprising a field effect transistor (1) which is provided with a source, a drain and a channel area (4) placed on a substrate. Said channel area (4) connects said source and drain and is provided with a gate-electrode (8) mounted ...

The invention relates to a gas sensor comprising a substrate of a first chargecarrier type whereon a drain and a source of a second charge carrier type are arranged. Achannel area is formed between the drain and the source. The gas sensor also comprises a gassensitive layer comprising poles...

A device for detecting a gas or gas mixture has at least one first gas sensor designed asan SGFET (1) and at least one second, addition gas sensor designed as a LundstromPET (2). The gas sensors are connected to an analysis device designed to analyse themeasurement signals (22,23) from both...