Lucent Technologies Inc.

Brian Keith Crone

Ananth Dodabalapur

Zhenan Bao

Howard Edan Katz

Edwin Arthur Chandross

Robert William Filas

Alan Gelperin

An electronic odor sensor includes first and second amplifiers, a biasing network, and a device connected to receive the output signals from the first and second amplifiers. The device is configured to correlate the received output signals to the presence or absence of an odor. The first and second amplifiers have respective first and second organic semiconductor layers and are configured to produce output signals responsive to the conductivities of their respective organic semiconductor layers. The conductivities of the organic semiconductor layers are responsive to voltages applied to associated ones of the amplifiers and to the presence of the odor. The biasing network applies the voltages to the amplifiers.

Electronic odor sensor

The specification describes source/drain contact material that is compatible with organic semiconductors in thin film transistor integrated circuits. The contact material is nickel/gold wherein the nickel is plated as Ni--P on a base conductor, preferably TiN.sub.x, by electroless plating, and the gold overlay is deposited by displacement plating. It was found, unexpectedly, that forming Ni/Au contacts in this way extends the lifetime of TFT devices substantially.

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Brian Keith Crone