Electrical resistors – Resistance value responsive to a condition – Gas – vapor – or moisture absorbing or collecting
Patent
1992-10-06
1994-11-22
Lateef, Marvin M.
Electrical resistors
Resistance value responsive to a condition
Gas, vapor, or moisture absorbing or collecting
422 90, 73 3105, 338307, 338320, H01C 700
Patent
active
053672836
ABSTRACT:
A hydrogen sensor element comprises an essentially inert, electrically-insulating substrate having a thin-film metallization deposited thereon which forms at least two resistors on the substrate. The metallization comprises a layer of Pd or a Pd alloy for sensing hydrogen and an underlying intermediate metal layer for providing enhanced adhesion of the metallization to the substrate. An essentially inert, electrically insulating, hydrogen impermeable passivation layer covers at least one of the resistors, and at least one of the resistors is left uncovered. The difference in electrical resistances of the covered resistor and the uncovered resistor is related to hydrogen concentration in a gas to which the sensor element is exposed.
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Fleming Pamela H.
Hoffheins Barbara S.
Lauf Robert J.
Adams Harold W.
Davis J. Kenneth
Lateef Marvin M.
Marasco Joseph A.
Martin Marietta Energy Systems Inc.
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