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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2013
Nxp B.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Dimitri Soccol, Rotselaar, BE;
Youri Victorovitch Ponomarev, Leuven, BE;
David van Steenwinckel, Holsbeek, BE;
NXP, B.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
An integrated circuit arrangement () is disclosed comprising a substrate (); and a gas such as a COsensor comprising spatially separated electrodes including at least an excitation electrode () and a sensing electrode (); a volume () in contact with said pair of electrodes, said volume including a chemical compound for forming a reaction product with said gas in an acid-base reaction; a signal generator () conductively coupled to the excitation electrode and adapted to provide the excitation electrode with a microwave signal; and a signal detector () conductively coupled to the sensing electrode and adapted to detect a change in said microwave signal caused by a permittivity change in said volume, said permittivity change being caused by said reaction product. A device comprising such an IC arrangement and a method of sensing the presence of a gas using such an IC arrangement are also disclosed.